Medical information management apparatus and method, and medical information management program

摘要

A medical information management apparatus for creating facile electronic medical charts by which patients can understand their medical conditions or diagnostic results by viewing their own medical charts. The apparatus includes: a managing unit for managing electronic medical chart data; a recording medium in which a dictionary file is recorded; a chart creating unit for extracting a medical term from an electronic medical chart of a certain patient, retrieving it in the dictionary file, and adding data representing associated explanation to the electronic medical chart data to create facile electronic medical chart data; an authenticating unit for authenticating the patient when the patient requests to view the electronic medical chart by operating a terminal; and a transmission control unit for transmitting the facile electronic medical chart data to the terminal to display description of the electronic medical chart to which the explanation has been added.