Development of fundamental infrastructure for nationwide EHR in Japan

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2213-2218

  Takemura, Tadamasa ^a   Araki, Kenji ^b   Arita, Kenji ^b   Suzuki, Toshiaki ^c   Okamoto, Kazuya ^a   Kume, Naoto ^a   Kuroda, Tomohiro ^a   Takada, Akira ^d   Yoshihara, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Japan DynaSystems Inc   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directory service; Dolphin Project; Nation level EHR; XML data mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; JAPAN; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84873037955     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9688-z     Document Type: Article

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