What is UMIN?

ĦĦUMIN, or University Medical Information Network is an on-line network and collaborating structure which serves all medical school-affiliated hospitals in Japan.

ĦĦThe objectives of UMIN are as following.

1. To provide up-to-date information to healthcare professionals.
2. To support collaborative work/research among university hospitals.
3. To promote standardization of medical data and hospital statistics.

ĦĦThe main computer system of UMIN is located at the University of Tokyo Hospital. The system is supported by the NACSIS network, a nation-wide TCP-IP/packet exchange backbone, sponsored by the Ministry of Education. On-line service of UMIN includes E-mail,news,various database search, Gopher, FTP and WWW servers for public and members. Staffs at each hospital can use their own terminals to make an access to the UMIN free of charge. By the end of 1994, forty-two national university hospitals joined the system, and more than 5000 are registered as members. Membership is now available to healthcare professionals who are members of academic organizations.

ĦĦWe are sorry that most of UMIN database are written in Japanese (KANJI), and will be happy to answer your questions.

admin@umin.ac.jp