A panel of national university hospital chiefs set up to establish measures to prevent medical malpractice has unveiled a final report that calls for public disclosure of incidents of apparent malpractice and the creation of a new management system for medical records.
The report, released Thursday, also urges medical institutions to introduce high-tech information tools to control medical examinations and the administration of medicine, and risk managers who will be in charge of preventing malpractice as well as ways of dealing with accidents.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology intends to ask 42 national university hospitals nationwide to use the report as a guideline and to support such institutions in personnel and funds as the guidelines are implemented.