Medical examination support apparatus

Abstract

A medical examination support apparatus includes: a display screen generation unit that generates a display screen for displaying a medical examination process and identification information of a patient so as to be associated with each other for each of a plurality of patients; and an unread management unit that displays a status, which includes information indicating that the medical examination process has been unread, or information indicating that the medical examination process has been read, or both the pieces of information, on the display screen. In a case where there is a revision in the medical examination process whose status is unread or read, the unread management unit displays the status of the medical examination process, which has been revised, in a display mode different from display modes indicating unread and read.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A medical examination support apparatus, comprising:
 a processor configured to:
 generate a display screen displaying contents for a plurality of items relating to a medical examination process of a plurality of patients; 
 acquire change information indicating that any of the contents of the plurality of items relating to the medical examination process of the patient has changed to at least one of unread or revised; and 
 notify the change information in a case where the display screen is not displayed. 
   
     
     
         2 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the case where the display screen is not displayed includes a case where the display screen is minimized.   
     
     
         3 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the display screen includes:
 a patient column in which patient identification information identifying the plurality of patients is arranged; 
 at least a portion of a plurality of medical examination process columns in which contents for a plurality of items relating to the medical examination process of the plurality of patients are arranged; and 
 a scroll bar. 
   
     
     
         4 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the change information indicating the change to unread includes information indicating that an item of the medical examination process to which a status has not been assigned is registered as unread, by acquisition of an examination image or report.   
     
     
         5 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the processor is configured to, in a case of acquiring the change information regarding an item of a specific medical examination process among the plurality of medical examination processes, notify the change information regarding the item of the specific medical examination process.   
     
     
         6 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the item of the specific medical examination process is an item of the medical examination process associated with an user of the medical examination support apparatus.   
     
     
         7 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the item of the specific medical examination process is an item of medical examination process associated with a group to which an user of the medical examination support apparatus belongs.   
     
     
         8 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the processor is configured to display the change information as a pop-up message.   
     
     
         9 . The medical examination support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the processor is configured to notify the change information that does not contain personal information of the patient.   
     
     
         10 . A method of operating a medical examination support apparatus, the method comprising:
 a step of generating a display screen displaying contents for a plurality of items relating to a medical examination process of a plurality of patients;   a step of acquiring change information indicating that any of the contents of the plurality of items relating to the medical examination process of the patient has changed to at least one of unread or revised; and   a step of notifying the change information in a case where the display screen is not displayed.   
     
     
         11 . A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing a computer-executable program for causing a computer to function as a medical examination support apparatus, the computer-executable program causing the computer to execute:
 a function of generating a display screen displaying contents for a plurality of items relating to a medical examination process of a plurality of patients;   a function of acquiring change information indicating that any of the contents of the plurality of items relating to the medical examination process of the patient has changed to at least one of unread or revised; and   a function of notifying the change information in a case where the display screen is not displayed.