Patent ID: 8374890

Claim:
An electronic medical chart system having at least one computer for maintaining a medical record, comprising: entering unit configured enter the medical record on a medical chart having an ID assigned thereto to generate medical record data constituted by contents and positional coordinates of the entering, wherein the ID is composed of fine dots printed on the entire surface of a form in advance; data management unit configured to maintain the medical record data; data correlation unit configured to correlate the medical record data with a first medical chart having a first ID assigned thereto; data control unit configured to control communication of the medical record data between the entering unit and data management unit; data correlation release unit configured to release a correlation between the medical record data and the first medical chart having the first ID assigned thereto in a case where the medical record data is changed, to provide changed medical record data, by entering unit other than the entering unit for the first medical chart having the first ID assigned thereto; display unit configured to, in a case where information is entered on the first medical chart having the first ID assigned thereto after the correlation between the medical record data and the first medical chart having the first ID assigned thereto is released by the data correlation release unit, recognize the first medical chart having the information entered thereon as being released by the data correlation release unit based on the first ID assigned to the first medical chart and display a dialogue for printing the changed medical record data; medical chart print unit configured to print a second medical chart composed of the changed medical record data, wherein the second medical chart has a second ID different from the first ID assigned thereto; and reflecting unit configured to, in a case where the second medical chart is printed with the medical chart print unit and additional medical record is entered with the entering unit on the second medical chart having the second ID assigned thereto, identify the second ID and allow the medical record on the second medical chart to coincide with the medical record data maintained by the data management unit by having additional medical record entered on the second medical chart to be reflected in the medical record data maintained by the data management unit wherein at least one of the units is included in the at least one computer.