Patent ID: 8788288

Claim:
A method for promoting utilization of medical information, comprising: (A) upon imaging by a medical imaging apparatus, at least one computer executes the processes of: (a1) obtaining an image, to which first attached data is attached by the medical imaging apparatus; (a2) judging a region represented by the image by performing analysis of the image and referring to the first attached data; (a3) estimating at least one body tissue included in the image based on the judged region; (a4) generating at least one piece of intelligent information that is at least one of extraction data and analysis data of the estimated body tissue, by performing one of extraction of the estimated body tissue and analysis of the estimated body tissue; and (a5) attaching second attached data to the intelligent information, correlating the pieces of intelligent information to which the second attached data are attached with the image to which the first data is attached, and registering the correlated intelligent information in a database; and (B) upon work being performed by medical workers, at least one computer executing: (b1) assisting processes that assist the work of medical workers by utilizing the intelligent information registered in the database; and (b2) filtering processes that obtain identifying data of the medical workers who perform the work, and limit a range of available assisting processes and a range of intelligent information to be utilized to perform the available assisting processes based on the identifying data and the second attached data, wherein: data that identifies at least one of the region, the body tissue, and a disease name is included in the second attached data which are attached to the intelligent information; the range of assisting processes and the range of intelligent information to be utilized based on the data that identifies at least one of the region, the body tissue, and the disease name is limited, the second attached information comprises at least an identity information of the disease name, the assisting processes comprise generating new pieces of intelligent information that indicate a correlation among different diseases in diseases corresponding to the identity information of the disease name which is included in the second attached information of the intelligent information to be utilized during the assisting process that assists the work of the medical workers, the attaching comprises attaching the second attached data to the generated new pieces of intelligent information, and registering the pieces of intelligent information to which the second attached data are attached in the database, and the method further comprising generating one of a collective object that includes all pieces of intelligent information generated from a single image and a collective object that includes all pieces of intelligent information having common values in the second attached data, and registers the generated collective object in the database.