Infrastructure for Academic Activities University hospital ... · 2.History 1988 UMIN was established in the Hospital Computer Center, the Univ. of Tokyo Hospital. 1989 UMIN started

University hospital Medical Information Network

Infrastructure for Academic Activities

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　　What does “Infrastructure for Academic Activities” mean?

Foreword

Individual researchers, students, research laboratories, research groups, academic societies, university hospitals, etc.

2. What purpose is the infrastructure used for?(1) ResearchData management of clinical trials, abstract entry for academic meetings, research fund information, etc.

(2) EducationElectronic textbooks, VOD image database, online evaluation of medical education and practice, etc.

(3) Clinical practiceDrug information, intoxication database, online manuals, etc.

(4) OthersPreparation of homepages, communications using mailing lists, email addresses for groups, etc.

3. Which resources of the infrastructure can be used?

UMIN software

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UMIN is now important information infrastructure for academic activities of biomedical sciences in Japan and is the largest and most versatile academic medical information network in the world.

1. Who can use the infrastructure?

Chairman of the Steering CommitteeTsunetaro Sakurai (Hokkaido Univ.)

Sincerely,

User’s data

UMIN IDsUMIN IDs

Fifteen years has passed since the establishment of UMIN in 1989. The five objectives of UMIN, put forward by the founder Dr. Kaihara, seemed so difficult to accomplish at that time. Now we realize, with surprise, that all of them have become routine work on the UMIN network.

Today, UMIN is made available to almost all medical professionals throughout Japan, and its extended services cover all the field of research, education, clinical practice, hospital management, and so on. UMIN is now essential to university hospitals and plays a leading role in networking in medicine, especially concerning the standardization of data formats and software.

As chairman, I would like to thank all who have been concerned in UMIN activities for their contribution, and also wish to thank the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for its continuous support and funding. We will continue to make all possible efforts to facilitate further development of UMIN.

I hope this revised brochure will help you understand the current features of UMIN.

UMIN IDs

2.History1988 UMIN was established in the Hospital Computer Center, the Univ. of Tokyo Hospital.

1989 UMIN started its N1-protocol-based services.

1994 UMIN started its Internet-based services.

1997 UMIN established its Electronic Library for Biomedical Sciences (ELBIS).

1998 UMIN stopped its N1-protocol-based services.

1999 UMIN started its VPN network (UMIN VPN) for national university hospitals.

2000 UMIN established its Internet Data and Information Center (INDICE) for medical research.

2002 UMIN Center was established as an independent department in the Univ. of Tokyo Hospital.

1. Purposes(1) To provide up-to-date information to healthcare professionals

(2) To support collaborative projects among university hospitals

(3) To promote communications between healthcare professionals

(4) To support collaborative medical research

(5) To standardize medical data and to collect hospital statistics

3. Organization

Medical university hospitalsHokkaido Univ., Hirosaki Univ., Gunma Univ.,Tsukuba Univ., Nagoya Univ., Osaka Univ., Toyama Med. and Pharm. Univ., Okayama Univ., Kochi Med. School,Nagasaki Univ., Oita Medical Univ.　　

Dental university hospitalsTokyo Med. Dental. Univ., Osaka Univ.

Professionals in university hospitalsPharmacists, nurses, laboratory technicians

OthersNational Institute of Information ITC, Univ. of TokyoUMIN Center

Steering CommitteeChairperson Tsunetaro Sakurai (Hokkaido Univ.)

UMIN Center

Drug Information Subcommittee

Hospital Administration Subcommittee

Nursing Information Subcommittee

Chairperson Masaru Sato (Hokkaido Univ.)

Chairperson Eisaku Hirano (Shimane Med. School)

Chairperson Rumiko Irimura (Univ. of Tokyo)

Network Technology Subcommittee

Laboratory Information Subcommittee

Chairperson Masayuki Kambe (Hiroshima Univ.)

Chairperson Takahiro Kiuchi (Univ. of Tokyo)

　Director Takahiro Kiuchi (Univ. of Tokyo)

4. Usages

(1) Monthly WWW page views- More than ten million web page views per month

(2) The number of registered users- 145 thousand registered users

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5. Application for your UMIN IDWe are sorry that UMIN IDs are currently not issued to non-Japanese citizens who live outside Japan, and that almost all UMIN resources for registered users are in Japanese, including the UMIN ID online application system.

Caution

1) Staff and students of universities2) Reserachers in health sciences3) Others (librarians, CRC, etc.) 　

　The qualification of UMIN registration

Checking the qualification for UMIN registrationhttp://www.umin.ac.jp/registration/

Online application form preparationhttp://www.umin.ac.jp/registration/

Printing and signing the application form

Sending the application form using fax 　　　　FAX　03-5689-0726

6. Lists of major services

Information and database services Homepage hosting services Communication support services

Educationhttp://www.umin.ac.jp/education/

Clinical practicehttp://www.umin.ac.jp/practice/

University hospitalshttp://www.umin.ac.jp/uhosp/

Multipurpose http://www.umin.ac.jp/multi-purpose/

Collection of biomedical web sitesMINCS-UH broadcasting programsdatabaseMedical terms glossaryResearch institutes andhospitals database

Open homepage hosting serviceMember-only homepage hosting serviceArchival homepage hosting serviceVOD hosting service

Email serviceMailing list serviceNews serviceBBS service

Intoxication database (Yamaguchi Univ.)HIV manual (Hokkaido Univ.)Drug information database Drug information text database for pharmacistsDrug information text database for patientsMedical supplies and materials databaseStandardized nursing procedures database

Official documents databaseUniversity hospitals guideMaster database for patient fee calculationStandardized disease nomenclature databaseMailing lists Member-only homepages

Web-QME Web-based Quality Management systemfor Educational effectiveness

SUPERCOURSE Online lectures compiled by 　　　　　the University of Pittsburgh

VHP Visible Human Project image data prepared by NLM, U.S.A.

7. Literature[1] Kiuchi T, Sakurai T, Ohe K, Ohashi Y, Kaihara S. University Medical Information Network - Past, Present and Future. MEDINFO 98. IOS press. 420-24, 1998[2] Kiuchi T, Takahashi T. High Speed Digital Circuits for Medical Communication; the MINCS-UH Project. Methods of Information in Medicine 39:353-5, 2000 [3] Kiuchi T, Ohe K, Sakurai T. UMIN - Key information infrastructure for the Japanese Medical Community. MEDINFO 2001 IOS press 1359-63, 2001 [4] Kiuchi T. Introduction of Information Infrastructure for Medical Academic Activities in Japan - UMIN and MINCS-UH. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (Summer), SSGRR Press, 2002

Researchhttp://www.umin.ac.jp/research/

AC Academic societies and meetings database

ELBIS Electronic Library for Biomedical Sciences

FIND 　 Fund Information Database

INDICE Internet Data and Information Center

ROCOLS Recruiting System for Our Colleagues and Students

8. TopicsSupport for clinical and epidemiological study at the initiative of medical researchers

J-CAD StudyEpidemiology of IHD R. Nagai (Univ. of Tokyo) et al.

UCAS JapanEpidemiology of cerebral aneurysmT. Kirino, K. Hashi et al

JACVSDCardiovascular surgery databaseS. Takamoto (Univ. of Tokyo et al)

2. Major research projects

1. Summary1) Low cost hardware and original package software provided by UMIN2) More than 28,000 patients registered for 18 research projects3) Reliable services supported by IT specialists4) Security protection mechanisms such as firewalls, encryption, and intrusion detection system, etc.5) All of the system management, including that of hardware, software, user, and security, performed by UMIN

UMIN Internet Data and Information Center for medical researchhttp://www.umin.ac.jp/indice/INDICE

Quality education based on proper online evaluation

Web-QME http://www.umin.ac.jp/web-qme/Web-based Quality Management system of Educational effectiveness

1) Web-based evaluation2) Secret evaluation3) Laborsaving4) Speeding-up

1. Characteristics 2. Procedures

Tabulation of results

Lecture entry

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http://www.umin.ac.jp/oasis/Member-only homepage hosting service

The number of user academic meetings

Japan Association of Medical Informatics

Japan Academy of Nursing Science

Japanese Association for Thoracic SurgeryJapanese Circulation Society

Japanese Society of Gastroenterology

Japanese Neuroscience Society

Japanese Society for Cardiovascular SurgeryJapanese Society of Nephrology

Japanese Neurosurgical Society

Japanese Urological Association

Major user academicsocieties

(2) Application software providedbyUMIN

(1) Automated update of member lists for member-only HP and ML

Member list for member-only homepage

Member list for mailing list

Member list of academic societies etc.

1) Digitalization of papers and abstracts2) Automated generation of bibliographic database3) Laborsaving 4) Speeding-up5) Low cost with flexible, multifunctional software package

Paper-based publication

　1) Member list retrieval system　2) Bulletin board system　3) Mailing list web archive　4) UMIN Electronic Library for

Biomedical Sciences　5) Internet Data and Information

Center for medical research

http://www.umin.ac.jp/elbis/

UMIN Electronic Library for Biomedical SciencesELBIS

Online publication

Automatically updated

OASIS

Online collection

Online review

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University hospital Medical Information Network

　 Infrastructure for Academic Activities

http://www.umin.ac.jp/

SINCE 1989

UMIN Center homepage　 http://www.umin.ac.jp/umin/　

UMIN Center, The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655Email: [email protected]　　FAX: +81-3-5689-0726