Patent ID: 8762162

Claim:
A medical procedure information management system, for managing medical procedure information comprises: a medical procedure information management apparatus including: a medical procedure storage unit configured and operable for storing a plurality of items constituting a medical procedure carried out for a patient with an operation sequence of the plurality of items in association with the medical procedure, a search unit configured and operable for searching the medical procedure storage unit for at least stored information regarding the medical procedure based on information contained by a received acquisition request after the acquisition request for the stored medical procedure is received, and a transmission unit configured and operable for transmitting information about a search performed by the search unit back to a sender of the acquisition request; and a medical procedure operation assistance terminal, configured to perform the following steps: transmit the acquisition request to the medical procedure information management apparatus, and to acquire the information about the search related to the medical procedure related to the acquisition request; determine when a certain item of the medical procedure is specified from an obtained list of items of the medical procedure and whether all items of the medical procedure preceding the specified item have been carried out, when it is determined that all the preceding items that precede the specified item have been carried out, compare an identifier of a readout item of a medical procedure to be performed and an identifier of the specified item specified from among displayed items related to the acquired medical procedure; and decide whether the medical procedure acquisition unit is to be activated with the specified item of the medical procedure, when the identifier of the readout item matches with the identifier information of the specified item.