University hospital Medical Information Network　UMIN

Current UMIN system - The fourth UMIN System - Infrastructure for the Japanese medical community

Many useful services provided by UMIN attract academic societies, research groups, and individual medical professionals. As a result, the number of registered users has reached about 138,000 and web access is more than six million page views per month. Many user accounts themselves attract information service providers, such as academic societies, medical schools, etc. Now, such organizations have come to propose new ways of using UMIN; for examples, on-line evaluation of lectures and bedside learning in medical schools, an on-line incident reporting system for university hospitals, etc.Considering the large number of users and growing roles of UMIN, the fourth UMIN system is designed to possess higher reliability and load capacity than its past systems have had. All the servers and network equipment are duplicated, and all the disk drives installed have RAID architecture.

Current services of UMIN

Currently UMIN provides a large variety of services for medical professionals as follows:

  1. Databases and other information services
    Databases and other information currently provided are listed on the table.
  2. Information service support
    UMIN offers open and member-only web hosting services, VOD hosting services, etc.
  3. Communication support
    UMIN provides email service, news service, mailing list hosting service, bulletin board service, etc. Among them, mail list hosting services are very popular, and currently more than 2,000 mailing lists are operated.
  4. Data collection support
    In addition, to the on-line abstract entry system for academic meetings and on-line data entry system for clinical and epidemiological research as mentioned, UMIN provides several university hospital statistics entry systems.

Table. List of UMIN databases

Clinical practice

Services Data source etc. Access Language
AIDS treatment manual full text database Developed by Hokkaido University Hospital Limited Japanese
Sarin intoxication treatment manual Developed by St. Luka's International Hospital Open Japanese
ICD-10 based disease nomenclature database Jointly purchased by national university hospitals Limited Japanese
Drug information full text database Jointly purchased by national university hospitals Limited Japanese
Drug information text database for patients Developed by Hokkaido University Hospital Limited Japanese
Drug information text database for pharmacists Developed by Kanazawa University Hospital Limited Japanese
Drug adverse effect reporting and retrieval system Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
Intoxication database Developed by Yamaguchi University Hospital Open Japanese
Standardized nursing procedures database Developed by Kagawa Medical School Hospital Limited Japanese
Classification of intensity of nursing care Developed by Kagoshima University Hospital Open Japanese

Research related information

Services Data source etc. Access Language
Electronic journals and abstracts retrieval system Developed by online data entry Open/Limited Japanese
Academic society database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Academic society database(English) Developed by the UMIN Center Open English
Academic meeting database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Research funding organization database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Research fund database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Research hospital database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Clinicl trial registry (CTR) Developed by online data entry Open Japanese
Clinicl trial registry (CTR) Developed by online data entry Open English
Biomedical research organization database Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Biomedical researcher database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
Job opportunity database for biomedical researchers Developed by the UMIN Center Open Japanese
Visible human project data file archives Developed by NLM, U.S.A. Limited Japanese
Visible human project data file archives (English) Developed by NLM, U.S.A. Limited English
Adult cardiovascular surgery database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese

Medical education and clinical training

Services Data source etc. Access Language
Web-QME(medical education evaluation system) Developed by the online data entry Limited Japanese
EPOC(clinical training evaluation system) Developed by the online data entry Limited Japanese
Supercourse, the Internet and global health Compiled by Pittsburgh Univ., U.S.A. Open Japanese

University hospital management

Services Data source etc. Access Language
Basic hospital statistics database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
Hospital management statistics database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
University hospital guides Developed by online data entry Open Japanese
Nursing practice survey statistics database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
Official documents database Developed by online data entry Limited Japanese
Medical supplies and materials database Jointly purchased by national university hospitals Limited Japanese
Master databases for patient fee calculation Jointly purchased by national university hospitals Limited Japanese
Medical term dictionary for hospital clerks Developed by Hokkaido University Hospital Limited Japanese

Others

Services Data source etc. Access Language
JPMED news articles database Automatically compiled from submission Limited JapaneseJapanese
Mailing list articles database Automatically compiled from submission Open/Limited Japanese