2000 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 143-148
The Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG) authorized the medical standard format for the recording of perinatal information in 1996 to introduce the optical card “as the mother card” and realize the medical information network which is regarded as the most important project to improve the perinatal medicine in 21 century. (http://www.jaog.or.jp/JAPANESE/MEMBERS/JOUHOU/H10/index.htm). In Kagawa Prefecture, a perinatal medical information network “Kagawa health and welfare information network” was developed and introduced on October 1998. (http://www.hw.kagawa-swc.or.jp/net/) In this network, four hospitals including Kagawa Medical University and other three public hospitals are connected with each other and function virtually as one perinatal medical center. In this system, all medical information are stored and transmitted based on the standard format of JAOG. There are still many problems, research into the use of medical information should be continued.
