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Fujitsu Limited, Sapporo Medical University

Tokyo and Sapporo, January 16, 2023

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University today announced the launch of a joint project starting in April 2023 to realize data portability ⁽¹⁾ for patients’ healthcare data including electronic health records (EHRs) ⁽²⁾ and personal health records (PHRs) ⁽³⁾.

As part of the joint project, Fujitsu will develop a mobile app that enables users to view healthcare data on their iPhones ⁽⁴⁾ and a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patients’ health data. This project marks the first initiative in Japan to link electronic medical records with Apple’s Health app under Apple’s support.

EHR data stored on the newly developed external healthcare data platform will be converted to a format in accordance with JP Core (FHIR JP Core Implementation Guide Version 1.1.1) ⁽⁵⁾, the latest Japanese guideline under the next generation standards framework HL7 FHIR for health information exchange.

By empowering patients to access their medical data from anywhere at any time and play a more active role in managing their own health, the project aims to contribute to the provision of optimal medical care and services tailored to the health conditions of individual patients while simultaneously improving patient engagement ⁽⁶⁾.

Sapporo Medical University Hospital, the affiliated hospital of Sapporo Medical University, aims to introduce the system in April 2023.

Background

Japan currently faces increasing demographic pressures as it confronts the challenges posed by one of the oldest populations in the world. In addition to medical services, the usage of medical health data in patients’ individual health management represents an important issue both for patients and their families. To enable patients as well as medical providers to more easily manage medical data, many countries world-wide are implementing national standards under the HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) framework designed to enable the rapid exchange of healthcare-related information, including medical records and other patient data. Many of these initiatives also increasingly promote the use of smartphone apps for health management.

In Japan, however, the scope of use of EHRs and other schemes that allow patients to manage health data on mobiles devices remains limited. To this end, in recent years the Japanese government and relevant ministries started to examine measures ⁽⁷⁾ to implement a framework whereby patients can manage both EHRs issued by medical institutions and their own vital data by themselves.

Fujitsu, which has been working to standardize EHRs and develop secure cloud technologies, and Sapporo Medical University, which has been working to improve the quality of advanced medical care in the Hokkaido area, launched a joint project using healthcare data at Sapporo Medical University Hospital to realize data portability in the healthcare field.

About the joint project

1. Overview

As part of their collaboration, Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University aim to develop a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patient data and a system that enables patients to view their personal health information such as EHRs from anywhere at any time on their smartphones.

By storing patients’ EHRs and vital data on the healthcare data platform and providing access to the data, Sapporo Medical University Hospital aims to improve the quality of medical services based on a detailed understanding of patients’ health conditions.

Fujitsu will develop a smartphone app to access JP Core-compliant cloud-based EHRs issued by Sapporo Medical University Hospital, as well as a cloud-based healthcare data platform to manage patient data. On the app, patients will be able to choose whether they want to store their data externally and to decide about the scope of usage of their personal and healthcare data. In accordance with patients’ consent settings, Fujitsu will store information from patients’ EHRs and vital data measured by their iPhones or Apple Watches ⁽⁴⁾ in a healthcare data base.

Fujitsu will develop the new app using Apple’s “HealthKit” ⁽⁴⁾ framework and will receive Apple’s technical support within this initiative.

Using the new system, patients will be able to check past medical information they received from hospitals, including test results and medication prescriptions on the app as part of their individual health management.

2. Roles and responsibilities

Fujitsu

Construction of a scheme to convert medical data into HL7 FHIR format
Development and provision of smartphone app for patients to view EHRs
Establishment of a system for consent acquisition and management that enables patients to decide about the use of their healthcare data
Provision of healthcare data platform to manage EHRs, vital data, and other data

Sapporo Medical University Hospital

Assistance in development of system to convert medical data into HL7 FHIR format
Support of system design during app development from medical field viewpoint
Improvement of the quality of healthcare through the use of healthcare data in clinical practice
Examination of a new regional healthcare model using a healthcare data platform
Supervision of system design and operation of the new system in the hospital
Promotion of the new app to patients

Image 1: Overview of the initiative

Image 2: App screen image (in Japanese)

Future Plans

Moving forward, Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University will examine additional ways to further utilize healthcare data and realize data portability, and plan to draw on data from multiple medical institutions to build a framework for advanced regional medical cooperation with medical institutions in Hokkaido in Japan.

Sapporo Medical University Hospital will promote the development of an environment for the utilization of healthcare data in clinical practice. As a core hospital for regional medical care in Hokkaido, it will further expand data collaboration among hospitals in Hokkaido and promote the provision of advanced medical care tailored to each patient based on more detailed PHRs. Sapporo Medical University further plans to use individual patients’ healthcare data in R&D of AI technology for diabetes treatment at its facilities and AI research previously conducted using EHRs. Sapporo Medical University anticipates that patients’ healthcare data (collected with patients’ consensus) can in future be used as useful information for selecting appropriate health treatments.

Fujitsu aims to provide comprehensive, personalized healthcare by combining a wide range of healthcare data with the latest digital technologies. Fujitsu will continue to promote “Healthy Living,” one of its key focus areas under its global business brand Fujitsu Uvance, to help create a world that enriches the life experience of everyone.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As the digital transformation partner of choice for customers in over 100 countries, our 124,000 employees work to resolve some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Our range of services and solutions draw on five key technologies: Computing, Networks, AI, Data & Security, and Converging Technologies, which we bring together to deliver sustainability transformation. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$32 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and remains the top digital services company in Japan by market share. Find out more: www.fujitsu.com.

About Sapporo Medical University

Sapporo Medical University aims to contribute to the improvement of the welfare of communities in Hokkaido as well as to the cultural development of Humanity by teaching the theory and practical application of medicine and health sciences, conducting in-depth research and fostering students’ intellect, morality and practical abilities.

Sapporo Medical University Hospital has facilities in 29 clinical divisions and 938 inpatient beds. It provides advanced, state-of-the-art medical care, such as emergency medical care, cancer treatment and regenerative medicine, and also plays a significant role as a medical institution that assists the development of local medical services and accepts patients from remote areas in Hokkaido in cases of disasters. Find out more: https://web.sapmed.ac.jp/e/index.html

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Date: 16 January, 2023

City: Tokyo and Sapporo, Japan

Company: Fujitsu Limited, Sapporo Medical University

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Putting on a black T-shirt emblazoned with the word “PEER,” Pleasure Bogese methods persons battling with drug addiction the way a trainer may well strategy a hesitant scholar — gently, calmly and armed with experience in a subject matter that has stymied every single of them.

Bogese, a recovering heroin addict, breaks the ice by telling them a little bit about herself.

“I’ve been homeless, I did time in jail. I don’t forget contemplating, there’s no hope. I’m generally heading to be a junkie,” she tells a homeless man though standing future to a uniformed law enforcement officer. “I produced it and you can, way too,” she quickly adds.

Bogese is a person of four peer restoration experts who have been functioning in central Virginia this yr as section of “Project Recuperate.” The professionals are embedded with ambulance crews and police officers so they can offer you steering and sources to victims in the course of a single of the most hard occasions of their life — instantly subsequent an overdose.

The program began just after Courtney Nunnally, a recovering addict who started a nonprofit organization to support get men and women into procedure, partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Place of work in the Jap District of Virginia. For its first 12 months, the challenge been given a $302,000 federal grant to retain the services of peer restoration experts who have turned their lives all over after waging lengthy battles with addiction. The program’s supporters are presently hunting for funding for a 2nd yr.

Most days, Bogese and Nunnally are out on patrol with law enforcement in Richmond and Chesterfield. They respond to 911 overdose calls and also patrol locations all over abandoned buildings, low-priced motels and parking plenty, searching for the signals of addiction.

On a the latest Monday, Bogese spots Adam Corridor, a homeless gentleman she very first satisfied two weeks previously, in the parking lot of a shuttered shopping plaza. She and Chesterfield Patrol Officer Travis Adams reintroduce by themselves and talk to him how he’s been.

Hall, 49, tells her he was shaken lately just after a young gentleman who stayed at the very same campsite he stays at died of a drug overdose.

“Did you consider about what we talked about?” Bogese asks, reminding him about some treatment possibilities she recommended for the duration of their 1st assembly.

“It’s not some thing I’m into still, but I’m surely thinking about it,” Corridor says.

Bogese suggests she respects his honesty and arms him some naloxone nasal spray, a prescription medicine applied to deal with opioid overdose emergencies.

“He has people strategies and options we talked about, and people seeds are planted,” she states as she walks away.

On this specific working day, Adams and Bogese are not called to the scene of any overdoses throughout numerous several hours of patrol. But they know it in all probability won’t be lengthy ahead of they will. Like many communities close to the country, Chesterfield County has struggled with the opioid addiction disaster.

In 2021, police here responded to 308 phone calls for overdoses of heroin, fentanyl or a mix of both 77 of all those calls associated fatal overdoses. So significantly this yr, they’ve responded to 161 overdoses 27 of them have been fatal, said Lt. Edward Pierpont.

The use of peer recovery professionals obtained reputation in the late 1990s, when the federal Compound Abuse and Psychological Overall health Expert services Administration commenced to fund grant courses specially targeted on peer restoration support solutions.

In the course of the opioid disaster above the very last ten years, peer restoration specialists have become even additional prevalent. In 2015, a police main in Massachusetts declared that opiate addicts who walked into the police station for aid would not be charged with a criminal offense. Previous Gloucester Police Main Leonard Campanello’s Fb write-up obtained nationwide attention and led to the generation of the Police Assisted Dependancy & Restoration Initiative, a nonprofit that aids law enforcement companies make early diversion and other “non-arrest” plans to cut down overdose deaths and develop obtain to therapy.

Considering the fact that its inception seven years back, the initiative has grown to a countrywide community of just about 700 police departments in 34 states.

Some departments stimulate people today to self-report to police stations, whilst other folks, like Project Recover, target on outreach to addicts.

“The aim is to get folks into a remedy method fairly than arrest their way out of the issue,” claimed Zoe Grover, PAARI’s govt director.

In Berea, Ohio, a city of about 20,000 just exterior Cleveland, the police division made Protected Passages, a software that encourages men and women to walk in the entrance door of the law enforcement station. There, they satisfy with an officer and then a peer aid expert who will help determine placement for detox or therapy services. The application also helps contributors with challenges that can usually hinder their means to get treatment, including transportation, coverage and kid care.

From 2016 to 2020, about 150 people documented to the police station and sought assist, stated Sgt. Patrick Greenhill. A further 13 area law enforcement departments also participated, giving products and services to hundreds extra.

“People didn’t think it at initial — that they wouldn’t get arrested — but then persons commenced bringing their friends to us for aid,” Greenhill reported.

In Chesterfield, Adams suggests possessing Bogese with him on patrol at times eases the panic and distrust individuals struggling with addiction have of police.

“It’s significant for them to be in a position to see that she’s been by way of what they have,” he claimed.

Bogese grew up seeking to be a law enforcement officer and acquired her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in criminal justice. But she struggled with liquor and prescription medications for two many years and then became addicted to heroin.

Soon after 9 months of raising heroin use, Bogese was arrested, an party she claimed saved her lifestyle. Through extra than 4 years in jail, she experienced to become a qualified peer recovery professional and commenced doing the job for Task Get better in April. She’s been thoroughly clean for seven years.

“I was so concentrated on myself prior to, and the emptiness of emotion, ‘Why am I listed here? What’s my intent?’” she claimed. “I absolutely (nonetheless) have struggles and troubles, but obtaining that which means and function of assisting persons offers me that feeling of route so I really do not sense misplaced.”

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Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch joint project to realize data portability in the healthcare field : Fujitsu Global