Health Care Support System takes the resultant evaluation of a Health Check and generates sentences for a draft of report to the examinee. It is in operation at several branches of Japan Health Club.

For an examination, more than 5000 different items of the health check, including the result of interview and various medical examinations are entered. The system uses more than 6000 rules to generate a draft report to the examiner. The draft report is fed to a doctor at the Kenko Club, who revises the draft, and sends a final report to the examinee.

At present, the doctor seldom revises the draft. 99% sentenses generated by the Health Care Support System are transmitted directly to the examinee without any further revision. The generated draft is rich in contents, easy to be understood and well received by the patient. Costs of the doctors as well as administration are decreased, too. Above all, human mistakes including overlooking aspects or errors in evaluation have been removed, which results in an overall improvement of the health check report.

This system has been in operation for more than 10 years. In 1998, 100.000 people receive the health check report generated by Health Care Support System.

Developers now plan to include new rules for various evaluation criteria depending on the type of working environment and to cope with new illnesses. Also, planned is inclusion of rules especially for the health check for old people.

The inferance engine for the medical knowledge is written in IF/Prolog. The system has been develped together by Kyushu Institute of Technology and Kyushu National Hospital. Nau Data Co. Ltd is in charge of Sales and Maintenance of this system.

http://www.cad.mse.kyutech.ac.jp/NetHCS/index.html (only in Japanese)

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