The Big Data Situation in Japan (and other Asian countries)

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9th September 2021

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1. The Big Data Situation in Japan (and other Asian countries)
   Y-h. Taguchi
   Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
   (Basically, my expertize is bioinformatics.
   Please do not expect too much in my talk!!!!!)
   

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2. China:
   Strong needs for AI-based medical care
   Reason:
   While urban area is as good as developed country, rural area
   is still the stage of developing country.
   Urban : rural = 7:3 (2020 year)
   Remote medical care can improve the situation in rural area.
   

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3. Advantage in China:
   Because of lack of democracy, it is very easy for the government
   to collect personal information ( no personal rights are
   guaranteed).
   InferRead CT Lung (by INFERVISION)
   It is introduced even in
   developed countries including
   Japan, because in democratic
   countries, it is difficult to collect
   personal information to develop
   this kind of AI-based tools.
   

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4. People in rural area is happy to provide personal health
   information to government, since they can have opportunity to
   get health checked in turn.
   In addition to this, salary of medical doctor is low while
   Chinese government pay huge amount money for AI based
   medical care.
   All of these drastically accelerate AI based medical care in
   China
   

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5. In addition to this, COVID-19 pandemic further
   accelerates AI based medical care.
   健康码(Health code) in Shanghai
   Danger of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
   No public traffic use without green code.
   More rapid and advanced development of
   AI-based medical in China is expected.
   

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6. Korea:
   Generally speaking, Korea is one of the most “digitalized”
   countries in the world.
   "IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking"
   

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7. Additional advantage of Korea:
   Medical care system has already been unified into one. It is
   easier to collect personal health information.
   National Health Insurance Data Sharing Service（NHISS）was
   founded.
   Purpose:
   Based upon collected Personal Health Record, to warn future
   health risk. The goal is Customized Medicine.
   

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8. COVID-19 pandemic also accelerates AI based medical care in
   Korea as in China.
   At the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, Korean
   Company, Seegene, developed PCR based test kit in three
   weeks without getting virus sample, but only with information
   technology (This test kit was later approved by FDA).
   Corona 100m (SARS-CoV-2 infection trace tool) was released
   as early as Feb. 2020.
   Coronamap (big data based trace tool) can visualize moving
   path of infected people.
   

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9. Japan
   Medical DX is late behind in Japan.
   Reasons:
   Positive reasons:
   People are hard workers. Without AI or DX, system can work to
   some extent.
   Negative reasons:
   People are conservative. If the system works well in the present
   form, they dislike to update it with risk taking.
   

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10. Present stage:
    Making use of receipt data (How much you pay for which disease?)
    The reason for this delay:
    Strong refusal for the collection of personal medical data (Disease
    record can be used for not employment and so on).
    Not unified data collection. No unified health data collection format
    exist. Health records are stored in separated hospital with distinct
    record format. It makes difficult to make use of them as collected
    big data.
    

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11. The lack of “digitalized” medical system damaged effectiveness of
    Japanese COVID-19 counter plan.
    No effective SARS-CoV-2 infection tracking system was released.
    Government provided vaccine record storing tablet did not work
    properly in the initial stage.
    Rapid economical support was impossible
    (Everything is text (facsimile) based)
    

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12. Other Asian countries
    (Basically, I did not have much information about other countries
    than Japan, Korea and China)
    India:
    Rural area has similar problems in Chinese rural area (Not enough
    medical care). Thus remote medical system is encouraged.
    India also has similar advantages with China, because of its large
    population (collecting large scale medical data is possible).
    At the moment, medical DX in India is still development stage,
    although market size expected to be as large as $372,000,000,000
    in 2022.
    

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13. Singapore:
    Discovery AI platform:
    (developed by Ngiam Kee, NUHS)
    Unified plat form to store and access patients data in hospital.
    It can integrate distributed information in individual hospitals
    into one.
    Assistive Technology and Robotics in Healthcare:
    

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14. HEALTHHUB
    Allows individual to
    access personal health
    information stored in
    hospitals and other
    medical systems.
    

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15. The number of patients related to medical DX.
    US
    China
    Korea
    Japan
    

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16. Conclusions
    East Asian area is definitely “Hot spot” of big data based health
    care, because…
    1. More group oriented people (lack of respect to personal rights)
    2. Historically, people like to record everything and keep it for
    future use.
    3. Relatively strong to math and language.
    These points will continuously accelerate the develop of big data
    based healthy care in east Asian area...
    

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