Patent ID: 8659984

Claim:
A medical-data management device that records medical data on an optical disc including a rewritable recording layer and a write-once recording layer, the medical-data management device comprising: a medical data determination unit that determines whether the medical data to be recorded on the optical disc is electronic medical record (EMR) data or not; and a medical-data access control unit that causes an optical pickup to access the write-once recording layer of the optical disc to write the data in a case where the medical data to be recorded according to a determination result of the medical data determination unit is EMR data, and causes the optical pickup to access the rewritable recording layer of the optical disc to write the data in a case where the medical data is not EMR data, wherein in the case where the medical data to be recorded according to a determination result of the medical data determination unit is EMR data, the medical-data access control unit writes the data while irradiating, from the optical pickup, the write-once recording layer of the optical disc with a laser beam having a first wavelength suitable for recording on the write-once recording layer, and in the case where the medical data is not EMR data, the medical-data access control unit writes the data while irradiating, from the optical pickup, the rewritable recording layer of the optical disc with a laser beam having a second wavelength suitable for recording on the rewritable recording layer.