Masanori Akiyama

IT can improve healthcare management for patient safety - minimizing risk of blood transfusion with Point-of-Act-System

The purpose of this study is ensuring patient safety of blood transfusion by minimizing risk of transfusion at the point of care through Information Technology. The targets are ensuring five rights of transfusion, rights process and right information by auto identification and traceability of blood products. Auto identification and data capturing system with RFID based on the Point-of-Act-System (POAS). It provides real time right identification, process management to ensure right medication and traceability with serialized number in single item level. The system designed based on process analysis and use case of transfusion was successfully implemented in Red Cross Hospital to prevent transfusion errors and ensure traceability of blood products. By reading RFID at the point of care, we can check database to look for adverse events of blood products. We identified all 377 blood products and acquired tracking data successfully. We can improve patient safety and traceability with RFID.

The 6th Asia Cancer Forum: What Should We Do to Place Cancer on the Global Health Agenda? Sharing Information Leads to Human Security

This forum discussed issues relating to the inclusion of cancer on the global health agenda, with the ultimate aim of achieving human security for all people. The forum discussed what methods are available to the cancer community in attempts to create a common data system for the rapidly growing Asian region. Discussions also focused on the preparations that can be made to consider and respond to the obstacles to the creation of an Asia-wide data and information network. It was also noted that in order to create a cancer information network, support would need to be provided to low- and middle-income countries and efforts made to ensure that data are comparable.