Patent ID: 8150708

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for reordering images in a teleradiology system comprising: receiving, at an image server, a transmission from a medical facility comprising a plurality of medical images and metadata describing image capture characteristics of the medical images and a modality that generated the medical images, wherein the metadata is included in the medical images; extracting a copy of the metadata; generating, using the extracted copy of the metadata, a manifest file that identifies the image capture characteristics of the medical images and provides information to enable a client device to display the medical images in one or more defined medical interpretation sequences; defining the medical interpretation sequences within the information of the manifest file, the medical interpretation sequences not identical to the imaging sequences defined by the metadata, and the medical interpretation sequences being defined prior to transmitting the manifest file to an image viewer at a client device, wherein ordering and grouping of medical images within respective medical interpretation sequences is determined using one or more image capture characteristics described in the metadata; and transmitting, from the image server, the manifest file to the image viewer at the client device for displaying the medical images in the medical interpretation sequences for review by one or more medical personnel, wherein the transmission of the manifest file is configured to be independent of a transmission of the medical images to the image viewer.