title: Health IT in Asia-Pacific region.
abstract: APAMI 2009 was held in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 22-24, 2009. This issue includes two selected papers recommended by the programming committee co-chairs. They are "Lessons Learned from Data Mining of WHO Mortality Database" and "Survey on Medical Records and EHR in Asia-Pacific Region - Languages, Purposes, IDs and Regulations". The theme of APAMI 2009 was "What are the medical records for?" A Hiroshima episode; Medical Records at Dr. Ban's Clinic, 9 km from the Epicenter of A-Bomb, is included, which lets us think of the fundamental purpose of medical records.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001315:Australia; D003625:Data Collection; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D009520:New Zealand; D010139:Pacific Islands