Report on Japanese Activity Hidenori Shinoda JIRA 6/24/2003 London

HELICS accepted DICOM HELICS: Health Information and Communication Standards Board HELICS board requested JIRA to submit DICOM to register as a healthcare information standard for Japanese healthcare community. They formed a committee which discussed its adequacy for Japan and approved it as a recommendable standard.

A users’ request Doctors at university hospitals in Japan stated a need that there is a study which requires to produce multiple reports. Example: A clinician orders a study by a CT which scans from chest to pelvis of a patient. A CT scans chest, abdomen, and pelvis of a patient. Three reports are created for the chest, the abdomen, and the pelvis and delivered to multiple clinicians. Is this a case that requires to modify the DICOM model or is an erroneous imaging order?

Japanese government will initiate a research on EHR. Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare will form research groups which will investigate several subjects. Developing information models for fundamental functions Research on EHR architecture Developing an enterprise model based on RM-ODP Assessment of effects of applying the EHR to clinical sites Research on proper use of privacy rules in medical field Developing and the use of HL7 messages Etc.