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Japan WAM Supports Its Aging Population with Help from IBM
Overview The population of Japan is aging at a rate unprecedented in other nations. It is expected that by 2010, 25 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65. There has been great concern about how the nation will establish proper medical care for this aging group. Recently, the Japanese government implemented a new law - the Long Term Care Insurance System for Elderly in Japan. The new law required the restructuring of the senior healthcare system. And while the new system was designed to be more user-friendly, fair and efficient, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) recognized that healthcare facilities had many questions about the new process. Under intense pressure to get a scalable communications system implemented quickly--and link it with 3,000,000 healthcare providers - the MHLW turned to the Japan Social Welfare and Medical Service Corporation (Japan WAM) for help. After surveying the requirements for connecting all parties along one system, IBM designed a dual-structured e-business platform that would provide both public Internet access to information and a secure intranet for sharing sensitive information.
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | March 2004 | Downloads | 22 |
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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