Disaster-Tolerant Architecture of Regional Healthcare System with Special Reference to Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster

摘要

In this article, a grand design for "disaster-tolerant" comprehensive regional healthcare IT system is described, which aims to provide the main structure for the healthcare system to be restored in Tohoku (northeast area of Japan) region where the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster stroke. The design is composed of (1) cloud center which manages prefecture-wide healthcare information, (2) standard-based regional (several-cities-wide) healthcare information sharing systems, (3) wireless communication (town/village-wide) environment supporting collaborated care of daily life activities for the elderly, and (4) ASP/SaaS typed electronic medical record system for the clinics located at Pacific coastal areas. The regional healthcare cooperation systems, principally based on the above grand design, began to be constructed in Ishinomaki and Kesen-numa area from this August.