Development of a medical information gathering system using JMA standard health insurance claim system ORCA on IPv6 network

Abstract

Recently, regional medical information sharing becomes hot topic. It is difficult for a doctor to obtain the medicine name that a certain patient got in other medical institutions. This is one of the causes of the medical malpractice. An electronic medical record is one of the useful solutions. However, the initial and operational costs are huge. The diffusion rate in Japan is only about 5%. Then, we propose the alternate method to share regional medical information. In this proposal method, we connect a health insurance claim system ORCA. This system has a lot of basic medical information, such as name of medicines, disease names. In addition, we developed a medical information gathering system on the IPv6 network. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.