Patent ID: 8315883

Claim:
A medical information processing device, comprising: a disease-risk calculator configured to read out physical information indicating a physical state of a subject, and to conduct a calculation process using the physical information, so as to calculate a disease-development probability for each of different diseases; a non-transitory memory configured to store, for each of the different diseases, (1) a treatment cost that is necessary when the disease develops, and (2) at least one examination item and, for each examination item of the at least one examination item, a corresponding examination cost; a criterion generator configured to multiply, for each of the different diseases, the disease-development probability by the treatment cost to determine an expected value of expenditure for the corresponding disease; and a searching part configured to search, for each of the different diseases, for an examination item in the memory having an examination cost below the determined expected value of expenditure by comparing the determined expected value of expenditure with the examination cost of the examination item for the corresponding disease.