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Japan health workers snub COVID-19 database as Suga seeks to digitize gov't

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I know a doctor who can’t understand computers. He used his nurse to translate all computer stuff. When she took leave to have a baby, he was asked to leave our hospital.

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The solution is simple, create a National healthcare payment system that only functions if done electronically.

So every doctor, hospital, dentist, etc.. will be forced to update to the paperless billing,

Then make this system and integrated part of the billing system if the doctor or hospital does not fill in at least Covid yes or no then no payment regardless if covid related or not

If covid no then the billing system move on, if covid yes then they have to fill in Her-sys before they can complete billing and payment request.

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duplicated work that they still have to do with paper forms and fax machines.

Anime land in a nutshell

There is a big shortage of personnel who can cope with this system,

You'll have an easier time hugging a moon bear than leading a J institution through org. change

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Let me just say this, every time I go to the city office, or the prefectural office, or almost any government institution, all I see are people or so called robots sitting behind piles of files and folders that never seem to move or get organized, and the higher the stack the more important the staff appears to look, LOL.

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Bad combination from a system that did not balanced information/workload and lack of priority for it to be better implemented after the problems were obvious. Even with the limited amount of detected cases nobody is using it, I can only image what would happen if thousands of cases happened every day.

I would say this is a lesson for the next pandemic, but probably it will be forgotten by that time, even if it is next year.

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Modernizing Japan's outdated government administration has been a key pledge of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. He is aiming to create a new digital agency to lead the charge.

IF, and only IF, he manages to drag the bureaucracy into the digital age, he could potentially be seen as the most accomplished PM in Japanese history.

His biggest challenge will be getting the koumin entrenched in analog to wake up.

I hope he at least appoints someone who is computer literate to oversee the operation, only problem with that, is it would have to be someone younger, and the old-farts in government wouldnt listen!

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HER-SYS has a "notorious reputation"

Yeah, but I heard HIS-BRO was even worse.

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