Patent ID: 8671118

Claim:
A medical information providing apparatus comprising: a storage device for storing selective input data on a lesion in a database in association with a lesion ID given to each individual lesion, the selective input data being entered through a template for selectively inputting at least some words and phrases which constitute a comment on the lesion; a search device for searching said database for data of past medical reports relating to a desired lesion in response to a search request, and extracting course information presenting a change over time of the desired lesion from the data of said past medical reports; and a display control device for displaying the course information on the desired lesion, wherein, said search device retrieves selective input data of a past medical report relating to the lesion to be described in a present medical report, said display control device displays, on the basis of the retrieved selective input data, a copied template that reproduces a same condition of selective input on a template used on creating said past medical report such that a new set of selective input data on the same lesion may be input through the copied template in the present medical report, and said storage device stores the new set of selective input data entered through the copied template in association with the same lesion ID as associated with the selective input data of said past medical report, or said storage device issues a new lesion ID to store the selective input data of the present medical report in association with the new lesion ID when said database does not contain any selective input data that relate to the same lesion as described in the present medical report.