Patent ID: 8200508

Claim:
An image-display device, which is connected so as to allow for data communication with an image-storage device configured to store medical images; and a report-storage device configured to accumulate radiogram-interpretation reports for said medical images, wherein said report-storage device includes a database in which, for each data item in the database, multiple items of characteristic information included in said radiogram-interpretation reports including established-disease name or examination purpose information are associated with information for identifying said medical images, the image-display device comprising: a display unit configured to display a patient's medical image; and a searching unit configured to search from said database a radiogram-interpretation report including at least one item of characteristic information which is the same as that of said patient's medical image and that indicates that established-disease-name information indicates that a subject of the searched radiogram-interpretation report is able-bodied or that said examination-purpose information is post-surgery to identify a medical image related to the searched radiogram-interpretation report in order to associate said identified medical image with said patient's medical image.