Patent ID: 8073706

Claim:
An examination reserve system which manages, using a patient reservation table that includes a patient name, a region of the patient to be examined, an examination room, and a reservation date, reserve requests for an examination of the patient using a medical imaging apparatus of a hospital, the examination reserve system being provided independently of the medical imaging apparatus and being connectable to the medical imaging apparatus via a network, the system comprising: means for receiving information concerning a failure from the medical imaging apparatus; means for automatically suspending receipt of subsequent examination reserve requests and for displaying, using the patient reservation table, previously received examination reserve requests, when receiving the information concerning the failure from the medical imaging apparatus, each examination reserve request including the patient name, the region of the patient to be examined, the examination room, and the reservation date; means for automatically transmitting an examination reserve cancellation notice to a terminal of patients and/or physicians corresponding to the displayed examination reserve requests via an electronic communication line; and means for receiving, from an external maintenance service system over the network, repair schedule information including a completion date, extracting the completion date from the repair schedule information, and automatically resuming receipt of the examination reserve requests after the completion date.