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This paper reports the history, background including politics, current status of Japan’s health imaging study and other information sharing. Its realization was slow until the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) started paying digital image storage at the same rate as films in 2008. Information sharing was initiated in early 2010s, which was before vendors became ready for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS), with the result that most of 34 large regional sharing systems are in non-standardized protocol. One standardized example is the Hamamatsu area where inexpensive online PDI (portable data for imaging) was introduced.

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This research is partially supported by the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare grant-in-aid, Research on Application Promotion of Healthcare Information Database (20KC2007).

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  1. Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
    Yasunari Shiokawa
  2. Shizuoka Prefectural Hospital Organization, Shizuoka, Japan
    Noriko Mori
  3. Medical Engineering, Fujita Health University School of Medical Sciences, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
    Takaya Sakusabe
  4. Department of Healthcare Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Takeshi Imai
  5. Department of Medical Informatics, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ohbu, Aichi, Japan
    Hiroshi Watanabe
  6. Department of Medical Informatics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
    Michio Kimura

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  1. Yasunari Shiokawa
  2. Noriko Mori
  3. Takaya Sakusabe
  4. Takeshi Imai
  5. Hiroshi Watanabe
  6. Michio Kimura

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Shiokawa, Y., Mori, N., Sakusabe, T. et al. Medical Image Sharing in Japan.J Digit Imaging 35, 772–784 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-022-00675-y

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