This book analyzes the development of medical big data projects in Japan.Japan is experiencing
unprecedented population aging and labor productivity has decreased accordingly. Big data
analysis of the Japanese medical real-world database (RWD) has the potential to tackle this
issue.To allow readers to gain an understanding of Japanese medical big data analysis the book
discusses the original Japanese system that generates medical RWDs in the hospital medical
records system the nationwide standardized health checkup system and the public medical
insurance system in Japan.After introducing four major big data projects in the
healthcare-medical field in Japan the book explains the importance of creating information
standards to maintain data quality and to analyze medical big data. It enables readers to
analyze which standards are installed in which RWDs how the standards are maintained and
which issues are prevalent in Japan.This book also describes the ethical processes involved in
big data projects involving medical RWDs in Japan.
