Patent Document ID: 8996570
Application ID: 13233372
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for managing a histology operation, wherein: biological specimens of successive patient cases are collected, each of the cases containing specimens extracted from a single patient, the specimens being subjected to sequences of histological operations as requisitioned in each said case to enable examination of the specimens by a pathologist, and mounted on slides; including an imaging system operable to collect digital specimen images including images of glass slides bearing mounted specimens, the imaging system being operable to store the digital specimen images as files in a digital image memory; one or more processors; a memory in operative connection with the one or more of the processors; wherein, responsive to execution of program instructions accessible to the one or more processors, the one or more processors are configured to: access one or more patient records and one or more case records to which the digital specimen images relate; access one or more of said digital specimen images to match the one or more of said digital specimen images to the one or more case records based on one or more image properties of the one or more digital specimen images so as to associate respective ones of the digital specimen images with cases for presentation on a user display as an image of a set of glass slides that meet the requisitioned histological operations; and facilitate one or more image review functions comprising image quality assessment, case matching to associate the digital specimen images with said single patient and case completeness functions to associate the digital specimen images in each said case with corresponding said requisitioned operations.