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Stroke Care Managing Center |
Director MIZUNO, Masaaki (Clinical Professor) |
Targeting establishment of an association medical care system and enhancement of the quality of stroke care |
The department targets to link together with medical institutions in the Tokai region using information technology and establishing stroke association medical care centering on the patients and citizens. |
The doctor in charge of stroke medical care plays a central role in establishing new diagnostic measures and medical treatment for strokes and verifying their effectiveness.
The center supports stroke medical care both from a diagnostic and therapeutic aspect in the related the institutions, and so forth, through the operation of a network of medical institutions supported by electronic engineering, establishes stroke association medical care system, and targets enhancing the quality of stroke medical care.
The center developed the standardization of medical information on an electronic basis (HL7, CDA, DICOM) and the technology of sharing (XDS) technology intended for the stroke medical field to demonstrate the effectiveness of the stroke association medical care system as a first in Japan.
The system for transmitting CT and MRI images to a cellular phone to support acute care for strokes has been utilized more than 1,000 times. In addition, the standardization and sharing of medical information developed by our center is becoming a Japanese national standard specification.
NAGOYA-RHIE (Regional Health Information Exchange) of our center is highly evaluated from overseas and useful for constructing a Japanese version of EHR.