and displaying the desired images according to one exemplary embodiment the notification message allows the user to see which image is currently ready for viewing as well as other images in the queue for example if a physician had two patients that had undergone both x rays and mris the physician could use her or his notification device to determine the status of the images then the images ready for viewing could be listed on a display of the notification device 218 in a manner which is visually distinguishable from those images that were still being processed as shown in fig3 in fig3 images ready for viewing are displayed in capital letters 302 and images still being processed are displayed in lower case letters 304 additional or alternative visual techniques could be used to differentiate viewable images from images that are still being processed such as black lettering for viewable images and grayed out lettering for images that are still being processed the manner in which the notification device 218 is updated can vary as well for example according to one exemplary embodiment the server 212 can u201c push u201d status updates to the notification device 218 as new images become available for.