New corona infected person information management system Effective operation conducted by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare August 27 13:04
Regarding the system that centrally manages the infected person information of the new coronavirus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Sugoshi is in charge of understanding the actual situation when inputting infected person information and points to be improved for effective operation. It is revealed that the Ministry of Labor is proceeding with the investigation.
In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has begun operating a system called "HER-SYS" (Hersys), which centrally manages infected person information from May, and operates a health center. , Used by almost all municipalities.
At the press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kan said that the system could not use the aggregation function of the system, and the country could not grasp the data. “There is no situation where the data cannot be grasped, but the information about each medical In some cases, it is entered directly at the institution, and in other cases, the public health center enters the information received by fax from the medical institution."
In addition, it was clarified that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is currently conducting an investigation in order to understand the actual conditions when inputting the information of infected people into the system and points to be improved for effective operation. Through operation, we want to quickly and accurately grasp the overall infection status."