Patent ID: 7873526

Claim:
A medical report producing apparatus which produces an electronic file for a trace reading report on one or more medical images to be trace-read, the apparatus comprising: means for producing the electronic file for the medical report on the basis of information input in accordance with an operation of an operator; means for displaying a production screen for the medical report produced by the information processing means; and means for selectively displaying content including at least one of a medical image, a past medical report, and an information file, the content being referenced in order to produce the medical report, the means for producing including means for inputting a string to a finding section of the medical report; means for identifying a link corresponding range in the string in the finding section; means for acquiring address information of the content in response to an input for designating the content displayed on the second display means, and linking the address information to information indicating the string in the link corresponding range to produce a hyperlink text, the input for designating the content being performed by a drag and drop operation; means for selecting a protocol from among a plurality of predefined protocols, in accordance with an instruction input of the operator, the protocol including a macrofunction configured to be executed when a hyperlink corresponding to the hyperlink text is activated; and means for embedding, in the hyperlink text in response to the drag and drop operation, protocol information indicating the selected protocol.