The Hospital Information System of Kyoto University Hospital

Speaker: Tomohiro Kuroda

Affiliation: Kyoto University

Time: Monday 27/02/2012 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Campbelltown (26.1.50), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract:

A Hospital Information System (HIS) has turned a hospital into a gigantic computer with huge computational power, huge storage, and wired/wireless local area network. On the other hand, a modern medical device, such as an echograph, is a computer system with several functional units connected by an internal network named a bus. Therefore, we can embed such a medical device into the HIS by simply replacing the bus with the local area network. Introduction of sensor network infrastructure changes medical devices as peripherals of HIS, and enabling position tracking of the devices on the sensor network may lead to the emergence of disruptive innovation in the clinical field.

On the other hand, a HIS is a gigantic clinical repository. It holds any clinical information including three-dimensional medical images of patients and life-logs of clinical staffs. Therefore, introduction of add-on applications for various purposes, such as virtual-reality (VR) based surgery planning and visualization of clinical activities may open up new findings to advance clinical and activities.

This lecture provides ongoing project to introduce sensor network infrastructure and add-on applications to the HIS of Kyoto University Hospital.

Biography: Tomohiro Kuroda is the vice CIO of Kyoto University Hospital and is an associate professor of Graduate School of Medicine and of Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. He received B.S. in information science from Kyoto University in 1994, M.S. and Ph.D. in information science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 1996 and 1998. He was an assistant professor of Graduate School of Information Science at NAIST from 1998 to 2001, a lecturer of Department of Medical Informatics of Kyoto University Hospital from 2001 to 2006, and an associate professor of Graduate School of Engineering Science of Osaka University from 2007 to 2009. He was also with Department of Information Processing Science of University of Oulu, Finland in 2001 and 2006, where he holds the rank of visiting professor. His current research interests include Human Interface, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Wearable/Ubiquitous Computing, and Medical/Assistive informatics. He takes a role of a councilor of JAMI and JSMBE, the chief editor of transactions of JSMVR, the bureau chief of JASL, and others. He is a member of IEEE, VRSJ, HISJ, ISCIE, and others.