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A healthier Japan - nest0r - 2011-06-11
Yusuke Nakamura explains the purpose of his fledgling biomedical office.
“Yusuke Nakamura, a geneticist at the University of Tokyo, has long argued that the country should reform its health-care system and work harder to cash in on its biological discoveries. His mission was given fresh urgency by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March — and now he has a pulpit. In January, Nakamura launched the Office of Medical Innovation, a cabinet-level advisory organization, and he will make his case at a high-level government meeting next week...
How could these problems be avoided?
In Japan, each hospital has its own medical-record system. We need instead to have a national ‘cloud’ system to store records, and patients could carry their own records on a data card or a phone. We should start with Tohoku, where the system needs reconstructing anyway, and then extend to the rest of the country. More destructive quakes will occur. With a good system in place, we could save a large number of lives... ”
A healthier Japan - pm215 - 2011-06-11
nest0r Wrote:In Japan, each hospital has its own medical-record system. We need instead to have a national ‘cloud’ system to store recordsThere's a similar plan here in the UK, which I'm against, largely because the government's record for large-scale IT projects is abysmal (typically they are delivered late, massively over budget and not fit for purpose). I wonder if Japan is any better...
A healthier Japan - Splatted - 2011-06-11
pm215 Wrote:the government's record for large-scale IT projects is abysmal (typically they are delivered late, massively over budget and not fit for purpose).You forgot to mention fellow train passengers.
A healthier Japan - bcrAn - 2011-06-27
pm215 Wrote:This is really very interesting @nest0r, thanks for the information.nest0r Wrote:In Japan, each hospital has its own medical-record system. We need instead to have a national ‘cloud’ system to store recordsThere's a similar plan here in the UK, which I'm against, largely because the government's record for large-scale IT projects is abysmal (typically they are delivered late, massively over budget and not fit for purpose). I wonder if Japan is any better...