Abstract: A requested communication quality estimation device estimating a requested communication quality for a macroflow, which is a set of microflows, includes a first estimation unit configured to estimate a requested communication quality for each of a plurality of microflows constituting a macroflow, and a second estimation unit configured to estimate a requested communication quality for the macroflow based on the requested communication quality for each of the plurality of microflows which is obtained by the first estimation unit.

Abstract: A patient management apparatus includes an electronic medical record part configured to record execution results of medical examinations for patients in connection with identifications of patients, acknowledge flags indicating whether the execution results have been acknowledged, and explanatory flags indicating whether the execution results have been explained to patients, and a report management part configured to determine patients to be examined according to a today's medical examination schedule in connection with the identifications of the patients and to thereby output a list of reading requests to read the execution results, the acknowledge flags, and the explanatory flags in connection with the identifications of the patients to be examined according to the today's medical examination schedule.