IT Integrating and Support Center

Naoki Mihara, Noriaki Nakajima, Masami Mukai, Naoyuki Sato, Hiromichi Watanabe, Yuko Takaseki, Sachie Kawabata, Kodai Itoi, Yoshiko Takahashi

Our team and what we do

 The IT Integrating and Support Center (ITISC) was established on October 1, 2017 for a proper operation system and network of the National Cancer Center (NCC), and for the information security management. The director of the ITISC manages the Information System Management Division, and the Information System Planning Division. Roles of the ITISC are as follows: 1) operation, management, and maintenance of a hospital information system (HIS) both of the National Cancer Center Hospital (NCCH) and the National Cancer Center Hospital East (NCCHE); 2) operation, management, and maintenance of an information system and network of the NCC; 3) making policy of information security meet for related laws and regulations; and 4) staff education for improving information literacy.

Education

 At an orientation for new staff members of Tsukiji and Kashiwa campuses, the ITISC gives lectures on the use of an information system and important points of individual information, and trys improving information literacy.

Future prospects

 The roles of the ITISC are management of the infrastructure of the NCC and contribution to medicine and cancer research by providing a secure, efficient and advanced environment of information system. We aim to establish a model case for both domestic/foreign hospitals and research institutes through planning, construction, and operation of the foundation of an information system of the NCC.