Govt plans to collect, use electronic medical records as big data: Moves Support Abe’s policy on health and medical field
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The government will launch a new system by 2020 to gather such medical information as electronic records from medical organizations nationwide and utilized in some local networks, but this would be the first attempt to use the records on a nationwide scale.
Hoping that the new system contribute to the development of new medications and treatments for intractable diseases by research institutions and private firms, as well as to improved efficiency and in treatment measures, the government plan to include the new system in its growth strategy to be compiled this summer.
In the new system, a new body to be launched by the government will at first gather data from medical institutions across the nation and process them into a form in which it is not possible to identify individuals by eliminating certain information. Then the processed data will be provided to medical institutions, research bodies such as universities, and private firms such as drug makers.