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Social Medical Informatics Lab
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A lab that uses methods from informatics and economics tounravel challenges in healthcare systems.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving healthcare challenges with informatics and economics.
The Social Medical Informatics Lab analyzes challenges in medical technology and healthcare systems using methods from informatics and economics.
For the problems revealed by this analysis, the lab explores solutions from the perspective of social medicine.
The research centers on medical informatics and healthcare systems, and themes are set according to the interests of graduate students.
The graduate program brings together people from diverse backgrounds, including radiological technologists, clinical laboratory technologists, nurses, registered dietitians, and graduates of faculties of economics.
Key terms
- Medical informatics
- A field that collects and analyzes the information generated in healthcare and uses it to improve medical care and healthcare systems
- Social medicine
- A field of medicine that deals with the health of society and populations, rather than the illness of individuals, and with the systems of healthcare
ResearchResearch themes
The lab analyzes phenomena in medical technology and healthcare systems using methods from informatics and economics, and explores solutions to the problems that emerge from the perspective of social medicine. Its areas of work are medical knowledge and ontologies, regional healthcare systems, remote health systems, and health economics and hospital management.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, a Visiting Associate Professor and visiting researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2024
- ProfessorKatsuhiko Ogasawara
- Project Associate ProfessorKazuki Ohashi
- Project LecturerKunihiro Iwata
- Project Assistant ProfessorJieyu Zhao
- Project Assistant ProfessorYoko Shizawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Satellite image of Hokkaido, Japan in May 2001” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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