title: Practical use of optical cards in medical care.
abstract: This paper reports excellent results with respect to application of optical cards in medical care, based on improvements in the technology for encoding optical cards and devices used to increase read-write speed, and also reports the issuance of the first Japanese standards for the data format of optical cards.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shiina
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishibori
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuzaki
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsumori
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007564:Japan; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D016249:Optical Storage Devices / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software