Japanese Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program “Innovative AI Hospital System”; How Will the 4th Industrial Revolution Affect Our Health and Medical Care System?

I introduce here what we have been and are doing in the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) “Innovative AI Hospital System” project supported by the Japanese government. This SIP program began in April 2018 as 1 of 12 SIP projects that aim to establish “Society 5.0” in various scientific areas. This AI hospital program is the only one related to the health and medical care field, in which we are attempting to construct a big medical database, to implement many artificial intelligence (AI) tools in hospital systems, and to make the medical care system more effective along with reduction of workload of medical workers. To maintain or improve the quality of the health and medical care system, it is indispensable to share various updated and useful information among healthcare workers as well as the general population. We have been challenging to establish the digitalized medical care system in various aspects. I describe here where we are and the future perspective of the AI-based digital medicine.