Patent ID: 7899684

Claim:
A medical report creating apparatus which creates an electronic file of a medical report on one or more medical images to be interpreted, the apparatus comprising: information processing means for creating an observation column and a link information column in the medical report and for inserting information in the observation column and the link information column on the basis of information input in accordance with an operation of an operator, to create the electronic file; first means for displaying a creation screen for the medical report created by the information processing means; and second means for displaying reference contents, which are referenced when the medical report is created and which include at least one of a medical image, a past medical report, and an information file, wherein the information processing means includes observation column creating means for writing strings to the observation column in the medical report in accordance with the operation of the operator; range specifying means for specifying a link corresponding range in the strings in the observation column in accordance with the operation of the operator; linking processing means for acquiring address information on the reference contents in response to an input of specification of linking of the operator to the reference contents and linking the address information to the string information in the link corresponding range specified by the operator; display control means for causing the first means to identify and display the linking set on the link corresponding range; and means for creating thumbnail images indicative of the reference contents and pasting the thumbnail images in the link information column when the reference contents are linked by the link processing means.