Medical tradition and medical libraries in Japan

Medical libraries in hospitals.

THE Sheffield Regional Hospital Board acting on the recommendation of its Medical Committee considered that it was necessary to establish an adequate library service for medical and dental staff in the Regional Hospitals and decided, in September 1963, to set up a Working Party to examine the whole question and make recommendations. Each of the five main clinical areas in the Region was asked t...

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition

"reading" the body as well as the texts. Helen King examines how the healer could read the body and avoid being deceived by it, and what made reading a female body different. In Chapter 3, it is the case histories in the Hippocratic Epidemics that are subjected to scrutiny, with particular focus on one specific case of a girl who died after a nosebleed. In Chapters 4 and 5, the author turns to ...

Medical technology in Japan.

Computerizing medical records in Japan

PURPOSE The present study reports the current status of computerizing medical records in Japan. In 2001, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare formulated the Grand Design for the Development of Information Systems in the Healthcare and Medical Fields. The Grand Design stated a numerical target for "spreading the use of electronic medical records (EMR) in at least 60% of Japan's hospitals w...

Medical facility statistics in Japan

Medical facility statistics provide essential information to policymakers, administrators, academics, and practitioners in the field of health services. In Japan, the Health Statistics Office of the Director-General for Statistics and Information Policy at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is generating these statistics. Although the statistics are widely available in both Japanese and...