A method is for supporting medical personnel. The method includes taking account of patient data of the patient in an electronic health record stored in a first database; determining at least one prevalence value, each relating to a diagnosis to be made for a group of people including the patient, to which the patient has been classified as belonging in dependence on at least one part of the patient data; generating, from the at least one prevalence value, at least one item of evaluation information based on at least one future examination procedure performable with respect to the diagnosis to be made, taking into account prediction information present in a second database describing at least one of sensitivity and specificity for the at least one future examination procedure with respect to the diagnosis to be made; and outputting the at least one item of evaluation information to the medical personnel.