Health IT in Asia-Pacific Region

Summary

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.

Keywords

Medical records

• References

• 1 Paoin W. Lessons Learned from Data Mining of WHO Mortality Database. Methods Inf Med 2011; 50 (04) 380-385.
• 2 Kimura M, Croll P, Li B, Wong CP, Gogia S, Faud A, Kwak Y-S, Chu S, Marcelo A, Chow Y-H, Paoin W, Li Y-C. (J) Survey on Medical Records and EHR in Asia-Pacific Region – Languages, Purposes, IDs and Regulations. Methods Inf Med 2011; 50 (04) 386-391.