A SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PRE-FETCH COMPARISON MEDICAL STUDIES

摘要

A system able to pre-fetch in a medical imaging and archiving platform a subset of comparison medical studies (120) in relation to an active medical study (110) comprises: - a medical study database (103) to store medical studies; - a relevancy rule database (101) to store relevancy rules that express relevancy of a comparison medical study in view of an active medical study; - a relevancy rule manager (104) enabling to define the relevancy rules; and - a relevancy rule engine (102) to select for the active medical study (110) applicable relevancy rules from the relevancy rule database (101), and to apply the selected relevancy rules to pre-fetch the subset of comparison medical studies (120). The relevancy rules comprise enhanced relevancy rules using contextual information stored in a medical report, an order or procedure information that forms part of the medical studies.