# Presentation: 513423

## G7 Patient Card : Japanese Activity Related to SP6

**Masuyoshi Yachida **
**Japan**

## SP6 Meetings

- Washington meeting in April ‘98
- Frankfurt meeting in June ‘98
- Paris meeting in Oct ‘98
- Chicago meeting in May ‘99
- Interoperability of G7 Patient Card
- Professional Card
- New proposal from EU countries
- Pilot Project

## SP6 related topics in Japan

- We have the web pages which shows the Japanese activities
- <http://www.medis.or.jp>
- The G7 pilot sites has selected
- Regional medical society in down town Tokyo (Shinjyuku area)
- They have already installed their own system
- New Tokyo International (Narita) Airport Clinic

## SP6 related topics in Japan(cont.)

- Demonstration to pilot sites
- Funded by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
- Shows Interoperability between Japanese and EU (emulated) card.

## Domestic Project Sites

- Takikawa

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- Narita Airport

- Tokyo
- (Shinjyuku)

- Miki

- Goshiki

- ●  G7 Plot Project Sites

- ●  Interoperable domestic sites

- ●  Other important  sites

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- Yatsushiro

## Improvement from the Last Year (Health Card)

- Register AID for domestic health care application
- Realize the interoperable health cards within Japan
- Select the G7 pilot sites
- Regional medical society in down town Tokyo Area (Shinjyuku area)
- They have already installed their own system
- New Tokyo International (Narita) Airport Clinic
- Demonstration to pilot sites
- Demonstration of the interoperable health cards

## Improvement from the Last Year (Medical field)

- The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) has allowed digital medical records.
- Required security level in integrity, preservability, and viewability
- DICOM have release the supplement (SP 31) for secure medical image communication
- Japanese specification is also included in the supplement

## Improvement from the Last Year (Smart Card)

- The new specification of interoperable Smart Card for public services
- Define uncertain descriptions in ISO and JIS.
- Interoperable among the card manufactures.
- Command for file and data access.
- Security architecture of cards
- Software libraries for creating file structures.
- Documents will be put on the URL <http://plaza4.mbn.or.jp/~jicsap/>

## Improvement from the Last Year (Smart Card)

- New Generation Smart Card
- A study group is discussing requirement to a new generation smart card.
- Supported more than 70 companies and non profit organizations.
- Suitable for virtual government
- MITI funds the project
- Release new card in 2000
- Contactless (ISO 14443 based)
- Total budget is 1.2 Million USD

## Improvement from the Last Year (General public services)

- The Ministry of Justice(MJ), the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MPT), and MITI are discussing how to realize the electric signature law.
- The Ministry of Home Affair is going to allow to use basic citizen information for other purposes.
- Introducing digital management system.
- Local government is going to issue ID card.

## Conclusion

- SP6 Pilot Projects
- We have already select pilot sites.  We are ready for exchange health care cards
- For the domestic project, the fund will come from MITI.
- We must complete the specification documents.