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Medical Informatics Lab
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The lab explores information systems that are useful in healthcare settings.
AboutAbout the lab
Advancing “practical medical informatics”
The Medical Informatics field (Nakayama Lab) upholds “practical medical informatics” and researches information systems that are useful in healthcare settings.
The lab explores hospital information systems and regional healthcare collaboration systems that are useful in clinical practice.
It also works on developing Personal Health Records, building data infrastructure that supports clinical research, and using medical AI.
Promoting standardization in Japan and abroad and responding to disasters are also among its challenges.
Key terms
- Personal Health Record
- A system that lets individuals keep and use their own records on health and medical care. Also called PHR, after its initials.
- Regional healthcare collaboration
- An effort in which hospitals, clinics, and other facilities in a region share information on patients' care and work together.
- Standardization
- Making data formats and rules common so that medical information can be exchanged even between different hospitals and systems.
ResearchResearch themes
The Medical Informatics field upholds “practical medical informatics” and explores hospital information systems and regional healthcare collaboration systems that are useful in clinical practice. It also works on challenges such as developing Personal Health Records, building data infrastructure that supports clinical research, using medical AI, promoting standardization, and responding to disasters.
*Illustrative imageData infrastructure supporting clinical research
The lab works on building data infrastructure so that clinical information can be reused for secondary purposes in clinical research. It aims to aggregate data from electronic medical records and the databases of individual clinical departments, and to provide data that leads to research without burdening clinicians.
*Illustrative imagePromoting Personal Health Records (PHR)
As an application of regional healthcare networks, the lab works on developing and promoting Personal Health Records (PHR), which are records of individuals' health information. Using FHIR, a new standard data exchange specification, it is attempting to build a foundation for various kinds of information linkage and applications.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasaharu Nakayama
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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: “Electronic Health Records flow chart” uploaded by Library 046 at en.wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Data infrastructure supporting clinical research: “BalticServers data center” BalticServers.com / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Promoting Personal Health Records (PHR): “Personal Health Apps for Smartphones” Intel Free Press / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Medical Data Science Lab): “A technician enters data into a computer at Gorgas Army Hospital - DPLA - 2300987e22c18aeeb904c6c80c26a36e” Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 / Public domain (cropped)
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