| US 5,655,084 C1 (7019th) | ||
| RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE INTERPRETATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | ||
| Howard Pinsky, Mansfield, Mass.; Scott S. Sheldon, Boston, Mass.; Nicholas A. Christakis, Philadelphia, Pa., and Michael Schmertzler, New Caanan, Conn., assignors to Emed Technologies Corporation, Lexington, Mass. | ||
| Reexamination Request Nos. 90/010,026, Sep. 14, 2007 and 90/009,056, Feb. 27, 2008. | ||
| Reexamination Certificate for Patent 5,655,084, issued Aug. 5, 1997, Appl. No. 609,517, Mar. 1, 1996. | ||
| Division of application No. 08/474,374, filed on Jun. 7, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,513,101, which is a continuation of application No. 08/158,140, filed on Nov. 26, 1993, now Pat. No. 5,469,353. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/60 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—3 |
| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| Claims 1-27 are cancelled. |
| [1. A method for routing a medical image comprising: generating at least one medical image at an image-acquiring site;
creating a computerized study which includes the at least one medical image and identifying information about the study;
transmitting the study over a wide area network to an image interpretation site, the transmission being controlled by an administrative processor coupled to the image acquiring site, the administrative processor generating study parameters from the study, and selecting the interpretation site using the study parameters and data available to the administrative processor relating to a plurality of interpretation sites located on the wide area network; and
receiving the study at the interpretation site over the wide area network.]
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