2001 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 181-188
In order to grasp the actual condition of community health care and to exchange medical policy and information quickly, the Japan Medical Association is pushing a project to build the Japan Medical Association Information Network System that all district medical association offices participate in.
In these situations, it is necessary to grasp the present state of introducing information technology in all district medical association. Then the resources to promote the spread of information technology can be used efficiently from the viewpoint of the whole organization.
In this paper, the situations of introducing information technology about district medical association office in November 1998 were grouped into each prefecture, and were graded. And we compared the result with the situations in July 2000 and studied the cases that made progress.
As a result, it is cleared that a different understanding of importance and validity of information technology and support from prefectural medical association influence the present situation of introducing information technology.
