Telemedicine Center
Reducing Urban-Rural Medical Gaps
In order to reduce and eventually resolve problems inunderpopulated areas and urban-rural medical service
discrepancies, we connect with hospitals in rural areas
through the telemedicine network and we have establishedmedical systems to provide patients everywhere withadvanced medical treatment.
International Conference through the Telemedicine NetworkTopics
Project to Support Collaborative Emergency Medicine Using the Cloud
Since October 2016, we have been collaborating with six hospitals in Hokkaido (Japanese Red Cross Kitami Hospital, Hokkaido
Prefectural Kitami Hospital, Engaru-Kosei General Hospital, Furano Association Hospital, Fukagawa Municipal Hospital, and Rumoi
City Hospital). We are conducting a project to support collaborative emergency medicine using the cloud. In this project, our medical
specialists use their smartphones and tablets, look at patient information sent to the cloud on the internet, offer advice on diagnoses andtreatment plans, and judge whether ambulance transportation to our hospital is necessary. This has made it possible to provide quicker
treatments for patients suffering from heart diseases.
This project is highly valued, and in December 2019, Dr. AZUMA Nobuyoshi, deputy director of our hospital and professor of theDivision of Vascular, Respiratory and Surgical Oncology at the Department of Surgery, won the Hokkaido Science and TechnologyAward.

Hokkaido Medical Museum in 2019-2020
DateTheme

2019 May 23

Understanding Visual Disturbances：Diseases Masquerading as Presbyopia

2019 July 11

What is the Newest Surgical Approach to Colorectal Cancer?

2019 September 26

Relationship of Dysphagia Required in the Community

2019 November 12

Elderly with Dementia and Family caregivers

2020 January 23

Seniors and Mental Health

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HistoryActivities in Telemedicine

1994 Oct. First Telemedicine is conducted between Asahikawa Medical
University and Yoichi Society Hospital with the cooperation of SonyAs of May 1, 20201996 May Harvard University, Professor Charles L. Schepens visits
Asahikawa Medical University to observe experiments intelemedicine○50 domestic facilities

Dec. Commencement of telemedicine between Asahikawa Medical
University and Harvard University SERI

○4 international facilities
Telemedicine Center

1998 Oct. Commencement of telemedicine between Nanking Central Medical
University Ophthalmology Department, China and Asahikawa
Medical UniversityClassification

1999 July The Telemedicine Center is completed

General Medical Examination Support

2001 Feb. First experiments in the transmission of 3D moving images in3D-HD (three dimensional-high definition moving images)

Radiograph Image Diagnosis

2005 Jan. Advances in IP for Telemedicine Centers

Total

Pathological Image Diagnosis

2017

2018

2019

706

6526095,602 4,994 4,776
15

20

13

6,323 5,666 5,398

May Research commenced for telemedicine using the Asia-Broadband
Network (ABB)
Commencement of telemedicine using satellite networks

U.S.A.

2007 Feb. Commencement of outpatient care for ophthalmology patients—
Telemedicine House Calls
Mar. Successfully held the Virtual Ophthalmology Symposium
connecting Japan, Singapore, and Thailand with ABB, while
conducting live-surgery transmitting moving images forsimultaneous viewing between the three countries
2009 Jan. Selected as a Telemedicine Model Project by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications and commenced promotion oftelemedicine
Dec. Commencement of PHR (Personal Health Record) service called
Well-Net-Link
2011 May Conclusion of the China and Japan Telemedicine Project Grant Aid
Agreement with the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic ofChina

China

2012 Mar. Establishment of the Telemedicine Cloud Center
May Commencement of operations support and technical guidance to 4
hospitals including on the basis of the China and Japan
Telemedicine Project Grant Aid Agreement

ThailandSingapore

2015 Mar. Commencement of the web meeting service to promotetelemedicine
2016 Oct. Commencement of project to support collaborative emergency
medicine using the cloud (with six hospitals in Hokkaido)
2017 Aug. Conclusion of an MOU with the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia regarding
telemedicine
Nov. A group of municipal assembly members from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
visit the Telemedicine Center
Dec. A group of government delegates from Sakhalin Oblast, including
the vice-president and the health minister, visit the Telemedicine
Center2018 Apr. Conclusion of an MOU regarding telemedicine with Parkway
Pantani, Ltd., a subsidiary of IHH Healthcare Berhad, one of thelargest private hospitals in Asia
Nov. Development of the world’s first 3D-8K medical system
2019 Nov. The minister and deputy minister of the Ministry of Health ofSakhalin Oblast, Russia, visited the Telemedicine Center

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