CONCLUSION: Healthcare information computerization in Japan is behind schedule because the introductory costs are high. For the computerization of healthcare information to be further promoted, prices of EMR systems should be lowered to a level which individual hospitals can afford. Furthermore, the communication between EMR systems should be further standardized to secure functional and semantic interoperability in Japan.
PMID: 18448385 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).