Integrated diagnostics systems and methods

A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions which are readable and executable by one or more computers to:

• extract textual content from a medical imaging examination report on a medical imaging examination of a patient;
• and
• add metadata describing the textual content extracted from the medical imaging examination report to an image of the medical imaging examination of the patient;
• wherein the added metadata describing the textual content extracted from the medical imaging examination report includes a hyperlink to the medical imaging examination report;
• wherein the instructions are further readable and executable by the one or more computers to:
• identify a pathology report on the patient;
• extract textual content from the pathology report that correlates with the textual content extracted from the medical imaging examination report;
• and
• add metadata to the image describing the textual content extracted from the pathology report to the image of the medical imaging examination of the patient;
• wherein the added metadata describing the textual content extracted from the pathology report includes a hyperlink to the pathology report.

A method performed in conjunction with a Pathology Information System (PIS) which stores pathology reports in a pathology report format and a Radiology Information System (RIS) which stores medical imaging examination reports in a medical imaging examination report format that is different from the pathology report format, the method comprising:

• using an electronic processor programmed by instructions stored on a non-transitory storage medium;
• converting at least one pathology report and at least one medical imaging examination report to an integrated diagnostics representation which represents the text of the converted reports as vocabulary category values of a vocabulary of categories;
• temporally ordering the converted reports based on timestamps of the respective reports;
• identifying a responsive report and a causational report based on vocabulary category values of the converted responsive report being responsive to vocabulary category values of the converted causational report;
• and
• displaying, on a workstation, a summary of the vocabulary category values used in the identifying.