Medical Equipment and Services at Newly Opened Clinics

Newly Opened Clinics

While the number of hospitals is declining year by year in Japan, general clinics are on the rise, as there is a certain number of newly opened clinics every year, with the total number exceeding 100 thousand.
This report has narrowed the target to newly opened clinics and surveyed their deployment of major medical ICT and equipment via mailed questionnaire. 
The report for 2024 marks the third version, and targets those facilities opened during 2022 and 2023.
* We surveyed those purely "newly opened" clinics with its manager having not been inherited from a predecessor.

I   Questionnaire to Newly Opened Clinics

1. Survey Designs
   1) Survey Outline
   2) Attributes of Respondent Clinics
   3) Questionnaire Strips
2. Survey Results
   1) Type of Electronic Medical Record (EMR): On premise
       or cloud
   2) EMR manufacturer
   3) Factors for selecting EMR
   4) Deployment status and manufacturer of medical care
       reservation system
   5) Factors for selecting the medical care reservation system
   6) Deployment status and manufacturer of web-based
       medical interview system
   7) Deployment status and manufacturer of online
       medical care system
   8) Usage of ICT Systems: Medical care reservation
       system (Q4 above), web-based medical interview
       system (Q6 above), and online medical care system
       (Q7 above).
   9) Manufacturer of PACS/workstation
   10) Type of PACS/workstation:  On premise or cloud
   11) Deployment status of machines, systems, services:
         - Cash dispenser/self-service cash register
         - Credit card payment
         - Cashless payment other than credit cards
         - Digital patient ID card (Medical certificate app)
         - Online eligibility verification
         - Electronic prescription
   12) Opinions on online eligibility verification and/or
         electronic prescription
   13) Deployment status and manufacturer of X-ray
         equipment
   14) Deployment status and manufacturer of Computed
         radiography (CR) and Digital radiography (DR)
   15) Deployment status and manufacturer of diagnostic 
         ultrasound imaging equipment
   16) Deployment status and manufacturer of
         electrocardiograph
   17) Deployment status and manufacturer of electronic
         endoscope
   18) Drug wholesalers currently trading
   19) Clinical examination center (clinical laboratory
         center)currently trading
   20) Companies involved in opening the clinic
   21) Referenced media regarding preparation for opening
         the clinic
   22) Challenges felt in opening the clinic
   23) Companies having involved in creating web pages
         when opening the clinic
   24) Companies having involved in recruitment when
         opening the clinic
   25) Deployment status/intention to deploy SaMD
   26) Things that is pleased to have valued when opening
         the clinic/Things that should have valued more when
         opening the clinic
   27) What kind of services, equipment, etc. would be
         helpful?

II   Profiles of Clinics