フィンランドの医療・福祉分野におけるICTの活用

We visited to Institute of Dentistry at The University of Oulu to see a Finnish medical information system and to see on-the-spot welfare in August 2012. We report the use of the information communication technology (ICT) in the field of a medical and welfare in Finland. The need for interoperable health information system is most important theme in health informatics field. In Finland, the ministry of Social Affairs and Health initiated an implementation project to build a national, centralized health information archive. This Finnish system consists of a national health records archive, a national electric prescriptions system and a wab portal for citizens' access to personal health information. A national health records archive is the database of the citizen's medical information record. Any doctor can see the patient's medical information such as the treatment records and results of physical examination and blood test, outcome of treatment, and so on. An electric prescription is the system that helps to issue and sign the prescriptions electronically. This system is included in the pharmaceutical database. eAccess is called“ My own health”. All people can see the history of his/her prescriptions and treatment and his/her health records by eAccess. This Finnish system is still under construction. The goal of this project will be finished in September 2015. After integration of the Nations in EU, peoples move to the other country freely without VISA. A lot of people can move to the countries in EU easily. Therefore, the traveler with the disease may be increased. This Finnish system will be provided with their important medical record data for the doctor or dentist to help to treat their disease anytime and anywhere. In near future, we should introduce the health information system like the Finnish system for keeping our health condition. It is one of useful tool that the medical bill and medical malpractice will be reduced.

P.89キーワードに誤植（誤）ITC（正）ICT