2001 Volume 21 Issue 6 Pages 397-405
In this paper, we propose a method to index for present condition of utilizing information technology of prefectural medical associations. Additionally, we report, as a case study, the results of the application of the proposed method to survey and analysis of Hokkaido Medical Associations and indexing them.
The method involves surveying the present situation of each medical association in terms of the three points of view, i.e., infrastractures (I), skill (S) and mind (M). We propose four indices to verify the present situation of medical associations, i.e., ISM index, ISM±index, l-u index and l-u ratio index.
The proposed method was applied to carry out survey of Hokkaido Medical Associations. The result reveals wide applicabilty of the method.
