Patent ID: 8595027

Claim:
A method for operating a medical scheduling system for processing and displaying medical scheduling data which relate to job planning for a medical appliance and of which each scheduling data item is associated with a data level, the method comprising: determining a bit array representing a data level associated with a respective scheduling data item to be displayed from an electronic database, the data level being one of a plurality of data levels, each of the plurality of data levels being associated with one of a plurality of scheduling functions of the medical appliance and the data level association relates to the data level associated with the scheduling data item; selectively ascertaining at least one data level from the plurality of data levels to be displayed; determining actual sequences of appointments for use of the medical appliance based on a minimization of conversion times for the medical appliance when the type of examination changes; comparing, using a view generator, the actual sequences of appointments for use with scheduled appointments for the use of the medical appliance; comparing the data level association of the scheduling data item to be displayed with the at least one data level which is currently to be displayed; displaying the scheduling data item to be displayed together with the result of the comparison between the actual usage and the scheduling data item on a display if the data level association corresponds to at least one data level which is currently to be displayed; and displaying a level combination of selected data levels upon user selection of a plurality of data levels for joint display.