Patent Document ID: 7532942
Application ID: 11699348
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for generating a quality assurance scorecard, comprising: at least one client computer; a server comprising: a merging module which receives data from all devices networked to said server, including at least one of said client computer, an imaging device, and/or databases, said merging module which stores said received data in a storage device; a sorting module which enables sorting of at least said merged data, wherein said sorting module sorts said data based on predetermined sorting criteria; wherein said sorted data enables tracking, reconstruction, reporting and/or monitoring of actions performed during an imaging examination; a metrics module which analyzes said data collected during said imaging examination, and performs prospective and retrospective trending analysis, said trending analysis which enables automatic detection of immediate and recurrent problems in said imaging examination, and automatically tallies and records quality assurance scores in a selected database; and an automated quality assurance analyzer for digital radiography which automates an image review process to track and analyze factors based on patient motion, patient positioning, imaging artifacts, collimation, and patient identifying data, in order to optimize the quality of said imaging examination.