It is a system that can anonymize and provide medical information collected from medical institutions in Japan to pharmaceutical companies, etc., and is a service that promotes cutting-edge research and development and new industry creation related to health and medical care through utilization.
[Reference] What is the anonymized medical information will be?
Our bBusinesses certified by the Next Generation Medical Infrastructure Law can provide "anonymized analyzable dataset" and "statistics".
■ anonymized analyzable dataset
Information that meets the 5 requirements for anonymization stipulated by the Personal Information Protection Act by performing anonymization processing on raw data. This is close to real data.
■ Statistics
Information that has been strongly anonymized by statistical processing, meeting the 5 requirements for anonymization other than the 5th requirement (N = 1 or 2).
However, in the guidelines of the Next Generation Medical Infrastructure Act, statistics excludes correspondence with specific individuals, does not fall under "information about individuals", and is not subject to regulation.
2-2 Anonymous processed medical information (related to Article 2, Paragraph 3 of the Act) Excerpt
In addition, "statistical information" is data obtained by extracting items related to common elements from information of a plurality of people and totaling them for the same classification, and quantitatively grasps the tendency or nature of a group. .. Therefore, statistical information does not fall under the "information about an individual" in the law as long as the correspondence with a specific individual is excluded, and is not subject to regulation, and certified anonymously processed medical information creation. The business operator can provide the created statistical information to a third party.