MEDICAL INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COST OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION AT HOSPITAL, MEDICAL INFORMATION DATABASE, AND PATIENT TERMINAL

摘要

A medical information providing system (20) connected to patient terminals (23) and hospital terminals (22) comprises a medical information database (25) where medical information is stored and a medical information terminal (24) connected to the medical information database. The medical information terminal (24) prompts one of the patient terminals to transmit symptom information and hospital selection condition information in response to a request for hospital information providing service, searches the medical information database according to the symptom information and hospital selection condition information received from the patient terminal, specifies hospitals, transmits the symptom information to the hospital terminal of the specified hospital, prompts the specified hospital to transmit information about the cost of medical examination, creates a hospital list containing the item of the cost of medical examination on the basis of the information about the cost of medical examination, and transmits the hospital list to the patient terminal.