[Health care in view of daily medical examination]

The present situation in health care From the perspective of regional society, there are many public facilities which support the health, medication and welfare for the residents, and they operate their own service without an appropriate linkage or organized method of sharing information with each other. It is important to provide health care based on a principle with a concept of health information management by life stage. As present, such information is divided among several government agencies, namely the Ministries of Health and Welfare, Education and Labor. Infant, school medical exam, and adult or geriatric annual check-ups are under the control of the respective Ministries. As a result, we lack in communication between regional facilities and sharing information. Recent advancement in medical information systems and instruments have been remarkable. Especially after the electronic medical card will be in officially used, the medical check supporting system will gradually come into wide-spread use with easy operation. To swim with the current of the times, it is important to cooperate with organizations in other fields for practical use of personal health data. We must make an effort to establish an effective method of using computer and individual information to collect significant data.