2019 Volume 68 Issue 2 Pages 96-102
Although it is necessary to maintain a peacetime social system through regional cooperation and cooperation with companies, the healthcare business continuity plan (healthcare BCP) must be implemented under a different mechanism from peacetime onward.
Healthcare BCP has a double structure: BCP in each hospital and region. It aims to maintain a place for inter-organizational learning beyond specialized fields. The “Healthcare BCP Consortium (HBC)” was established as a place to offer assistance for the social system that the Cabinet Office selects. The basic concept involves cooperation for ability development in different fields and ability development to ensure the balanced community medicine.
In the 2018 West Japan heavy rain disaster in Okayama Prefecture, the Kurashiki disaster recovery organization (Kuradro) was established to manage the overview of the support organizations.
It is necessary to establish some disaster evaluation indicators, various standards, education, and training systems centering on the HBC.