Patent Document ID: 8924233
Application ID: 13550319
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for forecasting of medical resource assignments, comprising: processing, with a computer system having at least one processor and memory, historical demand information obtained from a past set of electronic medical requests, the past set of electronic medical requests provided in a past period of time, and the past set of electronic medical requests requesting evaluation of one or more types of medical diagnostic imaging procedures performed across a set of medical facilities; processing, with the computer system, future demand information for the one or more types of medical diagnostic imaging procedures expected in a future period of time; forecasting, with the computer system, based on the historical demand information and the future demand information, a projected set of electronic medical requests expected to occur in the future period of time for the one or more types of medical diagnostic imaging procedures, the forecasting performed for a medical diagnostic imaging workflow that is configured to assign the projected set of electronic medical requests and projected data corresponding with the projected set of electronic medical requests to qualified medical resources in a set of medical resources; and generating, with the computer system, a projected assignment of the projected set of electronic medical requests expected to occur in the medical diagnostic imaging workflow for the future period of time.