METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING QUALITY CONTROL TESTING OF MEDICAL IMAGING STUDIES

摘要

A quality control system for performing quality control checks on pre- scheduled medical imaging studies. The system includes a processor and an interface for receiving electronic orders, each order specifying a medical imaging procedure to be performed at a specified procedure time to produce a study. The processor performs a series of functions for each electronic order. It first determines whether the study to be produced by the specified procedure according to the order requires a quality control check. Then, if the study requires a quality control check, the processor waits until a decision time that is the earlier of the time that the study becomes available for performing a quality control check, and a period of time after the specified procedure time. If, at the decision time, the study is available for performing a quality control check, then the processor performs the quality control check on the study.