Patent Document ID: 5469353
Application ID: 08158140
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for providing interpretation of radiological images, comprising: coupling a data processing system of an administrative site to a wide area network; coupling a plurality of acquiring sites to the wide area network for acquiring radiological images and for generating identifying information about a radiology study, the study including one or more of the images; coupling a plurality of interpretation sites to the wide area network for gathering information about the interpretation sites and for communicating selected information between the interpretation sites and the administrative site; receiving the identifying information about the study from one of the acquiring sites over the wide area network and through the data processing system; utilizing the received identifying information to determine one or more study parameters from the received identifying information; comparing the study parameters at the administrative site with information about the interpretation sites to select an optimum interpretation site to interpret the study from the available interpretation sites and from current information gathered over the wide area network; routing the study onto the wide area network, under the control of the administrative site, to the selected interpretation site; receiving report information at the administrative site about an interpretation of the study from the selected interpretation site over the wide area network; and routing the study interpretation, under the control of the administrative site, to the acquiring site from which the study identifying information about the radiology study was received.