Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (08.04.2020) The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has established an information and communication infrastructure centre (tentative name) in cooperation with the Cabinet Secretariat's IT Office. The system enables collecting information on hospital operation status, the situation of hospital beds and medical staff, the number of available medical equipment (ventilators, etc.) and medical materials (masks, protective clothing, etc.) from medical institutions nationwide (approximately 8,000 hospitals with 20 or more beds). The system will be used to inform the public about wide range of hospital operations and to coordinate medical materials supply and patients acceptance.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has established an information and communication infrastructure centre in cooperation with the Cabinet Secretariat's IT Office. The system enables collecting information on hospital operation status, the situation of hospital beds and medical staff, the number of available medical equipment and medical materials from medical institutions nationwide. The system will be used to inform the public about wide range of hospital operations and to coordinate medical materials supply and patients acceptance.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has established an information and communication infrastructure center (tentative name) in cooperation with the Cabinet Secretariat's IT Office, and has been able to establish hospital operation status, hospital beds and medical staff from medical institutions nationwide (approximately 8,000 hospitals with 20 or more beds). By comprehensively ascertaining the situation and the status of securing medical equipment (ventilators, etc.) and medical materials (masks, protective clothing, etc.), we will widely inform the hospital's operating status and supply supplies such as masks. It is used to secure the necessary medical provision system, such as when adjusting patient transportation.