MEDICAL EXAMINATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSISTING MEDICAL EXAMINATION

There is provided a medical examination assistance system that finds similar cases, acquires not only the disease state information of the similar cases but also the information referred to by medical professionals in medical examination of the similar cases, and displays them on the screen. Medical information of a workflow step preceding an ongoing workflow step is acquired using a medical information database in which the information of a workflow and each workflow step is registered so as to be associated with medical information and information referred to in each workflow step, medical information similar to the acquired medical information is extracted from the medical information database, and information referred to in a workflow step subsequent to a workflow step associated with the extracted medical information is acquired and displayed on the screen.