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... ”
“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... ”
Edited: 2011-06-11, 10:20 am
