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MHLW Study Group Approves Interim Report toward Full-Scale Operation of MID-NET Database
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW) study group on medical information databases by and large approved an interim report on the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency’s (PMDA) project to develop infrastructure for a large-scale medical information database (MID-NET)…
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