Medical-information management system and medical-information management method

A medical-information management system, comprising:

• a plurality of medical-information servers comprising medical-information memories storing medical information;
• and
• a management information server that manages information of a plurality of medical facilities and stores management information that indicates the medical-information servers in which the medical information is stored, wherein
• at least one of the medical-information servers and the management information server comprises:
• an operating-time-information memory that stores information regarding the operating times of the plurality of medical-information servers;
• an operational-status analysis part configured to provide notification of other servers different from a first medical-information server based on the information regarding operating times and
• a medical-information transmission part configured to determine a second medical-information server for temporarily saving the medical information stored in the first medical-information server from among the notified other servers, and transmit the medical information stored in the medical-information memory of the first medical-information server to the second medical-information server.

A medical-information management method based on a medical-information management system, connected via a network to a plurality of servers having medical-information memories storing medical information, which manages the medical information by distributing a plurality of items of the medical information to the plurality of servers, the medical-information management method comprising:

• comparing the operating time of a first server included in the plurality of servers with the operating times of other servers other than the first server, based on the pre-stored operating times of multiple servers, to identify a first group including servers operating when the first server is not operating from among the other servers;
• identifying a second group from among the plurality of servers, based on pre-stored management information indicating the servers storing the medical information, the second group including servers in which a first item of medical information is not stored;
• identifying a server included in both the first group and the second group as the second server, to transmit the first item of medical information to the second server;
• identifying a third group based on the operating times of the plurality of servers, upon receiving a retrieval request for the first item of medical information, the third group including servers operating at the time at which the request was received;
• identifying a fourth group based on the management information, the fourth group including servers in which the first item of medical information is stored;
• and
• identifying one server included in both the third group and the fourth group as the third server, to transmit the first item of medical information to the third server.

A medical-information management system, connected via a network to a plurality of servers having medical-information memories storing medical information, which manages the medical information by distributing a plurality of the medical information to the plurality of servers, the medical-information management system comprising:

• an operating-time-information memory that stores the respective operating times of each of the plurality of servers;
• a management-information memory that stores management information indicating the servers storing the medical information;
• and
• an operational-status analysis part configured to compare the operating time of a first server included in the plurality of servers with the operating time of other servers other than the first server, and provide notification of a second server operating when the first server is not operating from among the other servers, wherein
• the first server comprises a medical-information transmission part configured to transmit a first item of medical information stored in the medical-information memory to the second server.