We held a demonstration event on the use of health insurance card in My Number Card.

On Digital Day (October 10), Minister for Digital Transformation Makishima and Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Goto conducted a demonstration of the use of My Number Card's health insurance card, which will start full-scale operation on October 20, at an Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, and experienced the benefits of using My Number Card to verify identity and insurance eligibility.

Event

Face Recognition Card Reader Demo

The two ministers operated a card reader with facial recognition and experienced identity verification and insurance eligibility verification using My Number Card.

Confirmation of cooperation of specific medical examination information

The two ministers confirmed the benefits of specific medical examination information being linked to electronic medical records and shared as information useful for medical care in hospital clinics.

Summary of Remarks by Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Goto and Minister for Digital Transformation Makishima

Goto Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

The so-called "Online Qualification Confirmation," which allows you to use the health insurance card of My Number Card, is scheduled to start full-scale operation from the 20th of this month. When you use the My Number Card, you can receive better medical care by sending past drug information and specific health examination results to the medical institutions or pharmacy with the consent of the patient.

Today, I used My Number Card in this way, and I realize that it is an extremely easy reception. I feel that it is a system that people, including the elderly, can easily get used to. I hope that you will go to a medical institutions or pharmacy where a card reader with facial recognition is installed, use My Number Card, and experience the convenience of it.

In addition, in order to promote the use of My Number Card in health insurance card, we will make stronger efforts and advance preparations to related parties so that the system will be spread at an early stage in each medical institutions and pharmacy. Today, I would like to thank you all for your understanding of this new use of My Number Card in health insurance card.

Minister for Digital Transformation, Makishima

Today, I came to this place with a My Number Card in my business card holder. I believe that there have been many questions from the people of Japan about where to use a My Number Card. I believe that the full-scale operation will finally begin, and that by integrating the use of a My Number Card and a health insurance card, you will be able to realize the benefits of having a My Number Card.

I would like to express my gratitude for the many efforts made by former Ministers Tamura and Hirai to pave the way to this point. In addition, the people of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the people concerned in medical care, insurers, the National Health Insurance Central Committee, the Payment Fund, and the people of local governments have cooperated with me, and I believe that we must continue to work together toward further dissemination.

I have just heard from the doctors in the office. It will be a mechanism in which you can confirm whether you need to receive treatment in another department by knowing your medical history, and it will be a mechanism in which you can deliver valuable information to the doctors, such as thinking about the timing of surgery, by knowing the information on drugs. I think that will also protect patients. I would like to deliver this digitalization to everyone as a tool to promote My Number Card from the perspective of the people and patients. Thank you very much.