Paper:
Language: English:

Hospital Navi – A New Database for Searching Medical Information –

Hiroshi Gohma^1, Mika Asano^2, Nobuyuki Hamajima^3,
Gen Sobue^4, and Shin-ichi Sugiura^*1

^1Studies of Medical System Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, 65 Tsuruma-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan
^2Graduate School of Humanities, Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan
^3Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan
^4Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan

Received: June 21, 2011

Accepted: October 12, 2011

Keywords: Hospital Navi, geographical information system (GIS), ubiquitous mobile infrastructure (UMIS)

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.16, No.1 pp. 33-37, 2012

Abstract

Hospital Navi, which has two portals, was developed in order to search medical information. Here, the database is always refreshed, unlike other medical information sites, since medical information updated to the server is obtained monthly from eight local governments throughout the country. Moreover, Hospital Navi can indicate hospitals/clinics that are open at the point in time in Nagoya or Ichinomiya city in Aichi prefecture. In this project, volunteer doctors who are registered can change their clinic hours daily, and the results are uploaded on the web automatically. It is suggested that Hospital Navi is available for such emergency as the outbreak of influenza in 2009.

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