To allow easily associating examination order information, which is generated by an order-generating device, with medical images in a medical image management device which indicates the medical images received from an image generator for diagnosis.
When the medical images from a reader 3 are received by a communication part 56, the medical image management device 5 allows a control part 51 to indicate the received medical images on a display 55 and to indicate an examination order list screen 552 showing a list of examination order information stored in an examination-order-information DB 532 on the display 55. When the examination order information is selected from the examination order list screen 552 by an operation part 54, the selected examination order information is stored in an image DB 531 in association with the received medical images.