Abstract: An apparatus for collecting and recovering medical data which allows a number of different patients to be identified by an ID card or an ID label and has a plurality of keyboard printing units which receive medical data from the particular patient and includes a memory which receives the individual medical data relative to the individual patient identified by the patient's number and the examination number and includes a system for transferring the data in usual form to an output unit after the necessary data has been recorded in the memory. The apparatus further includes a control unit for controlling the input and output units as well as the memory unit and includes error correcting systems.