Protection and effective utilization of medical information: Focusing on establishment and utilization of prescription database

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380158
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: Yamaguchi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: MASUNARI Naomi 山口県立大学, 看護栄養学部, 教授 (80538843)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 個人情報保護 / 疫学研究 / 医事法 / 社会医学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to suppress the surge in medical costs and to provide safer medical care to patients, the movements to promote computerization of patient medical records are becoming worldwide including Japan. In the UK, which has traditionally had the global databases that are the basis of reports on the adverse drug effects, a new program "care.care" was announced the onset. The program was aiming at linking data on hospitals, general practioners and social welfares, and the secondary use of those data. But it was caused a cessation. Australia's "Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record" system was attracting attention as having a system that emphasizes patient's self-information control right. But it has also been rebooted.
In the worldwide, though not all of the projects, many large IT projects have failed or failed to achieve the intended purpose in medical. And Australia and the UK were also no exceptions. I am going to follow the future steering of both countries.

Free Research Field

社会科学