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Medical Informatics Lab
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The lab puts the clinical records accumulated in hospitals to work for better medical care.
AboutAbout the lab
Information is changing the shape of medicine.
The Medical Informatics Lab works to use the clinical records stored in the hospital to improve the quality of medical care.
Day-to-day operations are handled by the University Hospital's Department of Planning and Information, which develops and operates the hospital information system and the electronic medical record system.
Established in 1975 as the Department of Medical Informatics, the lab holds hospital data spanning more than 40 years and has been putting it to use.
The lab is also taking on hospital management and administration based on the analysis of clinical information, as well as efforts to return medical data to society.
Key terms
- Electronic medical record
- A system that records, stores, and shares clinical records electronically in place of paper charts
- MID-NET
- A medical information database infrastructure, promoted by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, that uses clinical data from medical institutions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab holds and uses hospital data spanning 40 years, working on the integration and use of medical information. Its research and development include analysis of clinical processes, building the medical information database infrastructure (MID-NET), and cross-sectional analysis of clinical information using artificial intelligence.
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The members of the Medical Informatics Lab are faculty, visiting faculty, specialist staff, technical staff, head nurses, health information managers, project researchers and visiting researchers, and assistant staff.As of 2026
- Clinical ProfessorTakahiro Suzuki
- Project Assistant ProfessorTakashi Kimura
- Project LecturerShunsuke Doi
- Project LecturerFumihiko Ando
- ProfessorEiryo Kawakami
- Project Associate ProfessorHidesato Otsuka
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