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==Infinite Possibility of ICT in Medical and Clinical Fields: History and Future Direction of Hospital Information Systems==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1144/abstract3.pdf
Infinite possibility of ICT in medical and clinical fields: History and future
direction of hospital information systems
Hiroharu Kawanaka
Mie University, Japan
Abstract visited the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as a visiting re-
searcher in 2012. He is now an assistant professor at the
In 1969, L. L. Weed proposed the description method
Graduate School of Engineering at Mie University. His cur-
of medical records for the Problem-Oriented Systems.
rent topics are Medical and Welfare Informatics, Document
His method is generally called Problem Oriented Medical
Analysis Systems, Ergonomics and Evolutionary Computa-
Record (POMR) and made a great impact to medical and
tion. He is a member of IEEE, HIMSS and several other
clinical fields. As POMR became popular, medical and clin-
Japanese academic societies. He is also certificated as a
ical records have been drastically changed to be rather con-
Healthcare Information Technologist by the Japan Associ-
sidered as scientific progress records. Nowadays, many in-
ation for Medical Informatics.
formation management systems at hospitals (hospital infor-
mation system thereafter) such as EMR and EHR have been
developed using POMR, and the same or a very similar Contact Information
trend among hospitals in Japan can be observed. As a result Web: http://www.ip.elec.mie-u.ac.jp/˜kawanaka/
of this, a true e-health environment is expected to be thor-
oughly available near future. By using such systems, med-
ical staffs store vast amount of clinical data and view them
easily. While such advantages of Hospital Information Sys-
tems have been made, those good information resources are
NOT effectively utilized for medical and clinical studies. In
this lecture, certain aspects of hospital information systems
in Japan are introduced in order for us to consider the effec-
tive re-use of medical records for clinical studies as a future
direction.
More specifically, my presentation will be devoted to the
introduction of the following topics: (1) histories of current
agenda of Hospital Information Systems (HIS), (2) recent re-
search projects to reuse archived clinical documents and (3)
clinical data analysis systems. I will show you an example
of actual HIS in Japan, and the outline of our resent topics,
e.g. Document Image Processing, Figure Recognition Meth-
ods for Medical Document Retrieval. In addition, CLISTA!,
Data warehousing for HIS developed and released by Med-
ical Engineering Institute, Inc. is to be demonstrated when
time permits.
Short Bio.
Hiroharu Kawanaka received the Doctor of Engineering
from Mie University in 2004. He established Medical Engi-
neering Institute, Inc. to develop Clinical Data Ware House
systems. In 2005, he received the NEDO Industry Fellow-
ship and worked at Mie Technical License Organization to
support research collaborations between universities and in-
dustries. In 2009 he received the Ph.D. in Medical Science
from Graduate School of Medicine at Mie University. He