Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 17：00～19：00
Venue: Daiwa House Ishibashi Nobuo Hall, 3rd Floor, Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building, The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Open to all, upon registration
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Speakers:
Thomas Ciesielski MD, Washington University School of Medicine
“An introduction to US health policy”
Yasuharu Tokuda MD, Attending Physician and Medical Education Consultant, Headquarter of Japan Community Healthcare Organization Hospitals
“Diagnostic Error in Japan: Misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis”
Hitoshi Honda MD, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama General Medical Center
“Impact of antimicrobial use on the emergence of antimicrobial resistant organisms in Japan: The role of antimicrobial stewardship”
Ryotaro Kato MD, Itabashi Chuo Medical Center, Visiting Researcher, the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy
“Low value care in Japan”
[Abstract]
High quality care at a low cost for everyone. Under the current universal insurance system, Japan enjoys the longest life expectancy in the world at a half the cost of the United States per GDP. Because of rapidly rising cost in part due to super-aged society and advent of modern medicine, major shift in disease prevalence due to Westernization and arrival of novel infectious diseases along with globalization, the current Japanese health care system is no longer sufficient nor sustainable. A need for modern health care policy has long been advocated, but surprisingly, there has been scant interaction between the clinicians at the bedside and the policy makers. In this seminar, we invite Dr. Thomas Ciesielski from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, a specialist on patient safety and quality improvement, to talk about modern US health care policy. We then invite three active clinicians, all with ample experience abroad, to talk about current issues in medicine in Japan. We invite and anticipate fruitful discussion on how to take bedside perspectives to policy formation.
Hoted by: Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance(STIG) Unit, The University of Tokyo