Patent ID: 7603282

Claim:
A communication system for providing information of a medical doctor's questions to patients, said communication system comprising a medical doctor terminal apparatus, a patient terminal apparatus, and a database server apparatus for storing question set data for the medical doctor's questions to patients, said medical doctor terminal apparatus, said patient terminal apparatus and said database server apparatus are connected to each other through a communication network, wherein said patient terminal apparatus comprises: first interface means for establishing a network connection and data communication between the database server apparatus and said patient terminal apparatus via the communication network; first receiving means for receiving question set data from said database server apparatus, the question set data being dependent on a particular patient among a plurality of patients; template storing means for storing template programs which correspond to predetermined forms used to present questions to be answered by a patient, the template programs are not dependent on a particular patient; generating means for generating, upon receiving the question set data from said database server apparatus, question programs that create the forms which are dependent on a particular patient among a plurality of patients using a patient-independent template program from among the template programs stored in the template storing means so that patient-dependent question programs and forms are not transmitted through the communication network, the forms being created on the patient terminal by inserting the question set data received from said database server apparatus into the template programs, thereby retaining security of the questions to patients, the question programs being generated for providing medical doctor's questions to patients; displaying means for displaying questions for the medical doctor's questions to patients by executing the question programs generated by said generating means; entering means for entering answer data to the displayed questions; and transmitting means for transmitting the entered answer data to said database server apparatus, and storing the transmitted answer data in said database server apparatus; and second interface means for terminating the network connection and data communication between the database server apparatus and said patient terminal apparatus; wherein said medical doctor terminal apparatus comprises second receiving means for receiving the answer data stored in said database server apparatus by accessing said database server apparatus, and displaying the received answer data, and wherein the patient dependent question programs are not transmitted through the communication network.