PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device estimating a name of disease that a patient is infected with precisely.SOLUTION: A name of disease estimation device comprises: name of disease estimation means estimating a name of disease where a name of disease based on a past prescription content that has passed a mean time of the disease and a name of disease based on prophylactic drugs are excluded from the names of diseases based on a received and past prescription contents to be a name of disease of a patient and display control means displaying that a medicine registered on the received prescription is estimated to contraindicate for the patient by using the estimated name of disease.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】患者が罹っている病気の病名を正確に推定する装置を提供すること。【解決手段】受け付けた処方せん内容と過去の処方せん内容とに基づく病名から、前記過去の処方せん内容に基づく病名が病気の平均期間を経過した場合に除外し、さらに予防薬に基づく病名を除外したものを患者の病名と推定する病名推定手段と、前記推定された病名を用いて、前記受け付けた処方せんに記載された薬剤が前記患者に禁忌であると推定されることを表示する表示制御手段と、を備える病名推定装置。【選択図】図3