Patent ID: 8417548

Claim:
A medical service support apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to hold a plurality of examination data including the examination date of a performed examination; an operation unit configured to set a search period of examination data by an operation of a user; a search unit configured to extract examination data matching a set condition, of the plurality of examination data held in the recording unit; and an output unit configured to output a search result to the user by the search unit, wherein the search unit includes: a first narrowing indication unit configured to indicate execution of narrowing processing based on a first period set via the operation unit and on a disease name; a first narrowing unit configured to extract, based on the indication, examination data in which the examination date is included within the first period and in which a disease of the disease name is diagnosed; a reference data determination unit configured to classify the examination data extracted by the first narrowing unit by an examinee and to determine, for every examinee, examination data with the latest examination date as one piece of the examination data to be a reference; a second narrowing indication unit configured to indicate, based on a second period set via the operation unit, execution of narrowing processing; a second narrowing unit configured to extract, based on the indication and for every examinee, examination data in which the examination date is included within the second period in the past direction starting from a reference date that is the examination date of the examination data determined by the reference data determination unit and in which no abnormality has been detected; and an analysis unit, comprising a processor, configured to calculate, for every examinee, the number of days different between an examination date of the examination data in which no abnormality has been detected and an examination date of the examination data in which the disease is diagnosed and to determine a recommended examination interval for the disease by performing statistical processing on the number of the days.