title: Development of a pioneering clinical support system utilizing information technology.
abstract: Nowadays, evidence-based medicine has entered the mainstream of clinical judgement and the human genome has been completely decoded. Even the concept of individually designed medicine, that is, tailor-made medicine, is now being discussed. Due to their complexity, however, management methods for clinical information have yet to be established. We have conducted a study on a universal technique which enables one to select or produce by employing information processing technology clinical findings from various clinical information generated in vast quantity in day-to-day clinical practice, and to share such information and/or the results of analysis between two or more institutions. In this study, clinically useful findings have been successfully obtained by systematizing actual clinical information and genomic information obtained by an appropriate collecting and management method of information with due consideration to ethical issues. We report here these medical achievements as well as technological ones which will play a role in propagating such medical achievements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Doubun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Koshiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Monzen
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Takefumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nojiri
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Ryozo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nagai
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D019992:Databases as Topic; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008331:Management Information Systems