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The Japan Hospital Association (Chairman: Shuzo Yamamoto) and the Nippon Omni-Management Association (Chairman: Yuzaburo Mogi) organized The International Modern Hospital Show 2009, which was held from July 15 (Wed) at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center) in Ariake utilizing Halls 4, 5 and 6 of East Exhibition Wing under the theme of "Brightness of the Life-Reliable Health, Medical Treatment, and Care" . The three-day event concluded safely on a successful note on July 17 (Friday).Visitors attending the show were as outlined in the following table.

	Show Visitors	Weather
July 15 (Wed)	18,800	Fine
July 16 (Thu)	28,200	Fine
July 17 (Fri)	29,500	Cloudy
Total	76,500

Opening Ceremony
At the opening ceremony, Shuzo Yamamoto, Chairman of the Japan Hospital Association, and Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman of the Nippon Omni-Management Association gave the organizers' greetings. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Minister's Secretariat Deliberation Official Jun Ebata, Japan Medical Association Vice President Dr. Yoichi Houzumi and Japanese Nursing Association Permanent Director Kyoko Nagaike gave the guest of honor congratulatory messages, while Tokyo Electric Power Company operating officer Kenji Kamakura gave the exhibiting companies address, and Hospital Show Organizing Committee Chairman Hisashi Ohichi gave the organizers' committee greeting.

Exhibiting Companies & Exhibits
This year's Hospital Show utilized halls 4, 5, and 6 of the Tokyo Big Sight East Exhibition Wing, hosted 347 exhibiting companies, and was held over a scale of approximately 7,200 m² (an overall venue area of 26,000 m²).
Exhibits were comprised of six zones: "Medical Instrument & Hospital Environment Equipment Zone", "Medical Examination and Healthcare Zone", "Nursing Zone", "Home Care Zone", "Hospital Operation Support / Service Zone" and "Medical Information System Zone".
The Hospital Show featured a broad range of new products, systems, technologies, services, and so on, from exhibits and demonstrations related to medical devices and hospital environment equipment, medical checkup and healthcare, nursing and nursing care, hospital/facilities operation support/services, to medical information systems.
In terms of medical devices, in addition to exhibits featuring products such as medical cotton swabs, non-woven medical supplies, compact portable electrocardiographs, electromyographs, ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, bladder imaging diagnosis equipment, AEDs (automated external defibrillators), non mydriasis retinal cameras, endoscopic surgery simulators, and heat/cold therapy equipment, there were also exhibits introducing compact diagnostic X-ray equipment, medical exam gloves, automated blood collection tube preparation equipment, laptop blood analysis systems, reagent for quick check of respiratory apparatus infection, and so on.
In the outpatient category, automated medical fee calculators, out-patient guidance systems, and in-hospital display systems, among other products, were exhibited and demonstrated.
In the nursing category, exhibits included nursing gowns, shoes, nurse call buttons, and bed sensors. Among other products, there were also in-patient ID wristbands to prevent medical accidents and mis-identification of patients, and drug envelope barcode printing systems to prevent mis-administration of drugs.
In the nursing care and rehabilitation categories, in addition to senior-citizen clothing, bed sensors, special bathing systems, bath chairs, wheelchairs, wheelchair standing assist devices, patient transfer aid devices, welfare vehicles such as lift-equipped busses, and nursing care foods, simple lower limbs exercisers, sport disability appliances, training equipment, and waterbed massagers were exhibited and demonstrated.
In the hospital ward category, exhibits included motor-powered beds, bed-side furniture, bed-side information terminals, ordering carts, and ward medical materials cabinets, as well as powered examination tables for echocardiographic examinations, furniture such as carts for electronic patient records, and office automation equipment designed for hospital use, such as antibacterial mouse for PC.
There were also a large number of exhibits related to infection control, including jet-washing machines, air purifiers, and sterilization packs, as well as medical waste related systems, deodorant-stoma related products, and so on. Further, protective kits to prevent infection during the super-flu pandemic were also exhibited and garnered a lot of interest.
In the medical information systems category, more than 28 companies exhibited electronic patient record systems this time. In particular, electronic patient records optimized for various medical treatment organizations such as voice recognition software for electronic patient records, electronic patient records customized for specific departments such as psychiatry and ophthalmology departments, and those for hospitals and clinics were proposed and attracted attention. Other exhibits featured liquid crystal display systems and LCD pen tablets, as well as PET/CT support systems, regional medical care collaboration systems, dialysis control systems, special health guidance support systems, DPC analysis systems, and ME equipment management systems. Imaging-related exhibits included medical imaging display monitors and filmless solutions.
In the hospital/facilities operation support/services category, various in-hospital amenity facilities, such as convenience stores and beauty parlors, in-hospital location information systems, all-electric kitchen equipment, gas cogeneration systems, as well as bakeries, cafes, hospital housekeeping, etc., were introduced. There were also exhibits and demonstrations of dual-arm robots optimized for the automation of processes such as sterilization and inspections, gathering much attention.

Special Exhibits
In recent years, the environment in which hospitals operate has been growing increasingly severe, and efforts toward environmental protection on the part of hospitals, which use large amounts of energy through round-the-clock operation and the use of sophisticated medical equipment, are being demanded. This time, under the theme of "the sparkle of life, the sparkle of the Earth, the sparkle of medical workers-creating environmentally friendly hospitals", special exhibits by the organizers, which have earned rave reviews from visitors in previous years, featured model room like spaces representing rooms for acute hospitalizations designed taking into consideration the environment and balconies planted with greenery, while pioneering cases of hospitals and facilities actively addressing environmental issues were introduced with panels.
At the "Energy-Saving, Air Conditioning Hygiene and Odor Control" exhibit corner held in conjunction with the above organizers' special exhibits, a large number of different products and systems using the latest technologies were exhibited and demonstrated, attracting a lot of interest. These included water-saving management systems, groundwater utilization systems, odor-eliminating ultrasonic humidifiers, as well as photocatalyst air purifiers, antimicrobial systems, environmental bacterial elimination agents, waste material odor elimination, plasma deodorizers for smoking room, energy-saving UV blocking film, and virus adsorbent blocking filters and masks.
Furthermore, the Medical Imaging Solutions Corner featured exhibits of various medical image information systems, PACS systems, remote medical treatment network systems, as well as image management server systems, pathological film filing systems, medical image display monitors, and finally surgical image recording/saving/search systems, medical image transfer systems for cellular phones at times of emergencies, endoscope surgery simulators, and touch panel computers. The Remote Medical Treatment IT Spot Exhibit held in conjunction with the Medical Imaging Solutions Corner introduced the Kagawa Remote Medical Treatment Network (K-MIX), an active remote medical treatment project in collaboration with the Kagawa Medical Association and Kagawa Prefecture.
The "Operating Room Support Corner Aiming for High-Quality Medical Treatment" exhibit corner featured exhibits and demonstrations of operating tables, operating lights, operating gloves, dialysis chairs, and surgery video recording and delivery systems, as well as patient-specific and procedure-specific cost management system for operating rooms, among other things.
The "Private Dispensing Pharmacy of Your Choice" exhibit corner introduced electronic medication history systems, visiting patient compliance instruction systems, generic drugs, and so on.
The "Local Medical Treatment Partner Clinic for Supporting Patients Along with Hospitals" exhibit corner featured exhibits of automatic ointment dispensers for clinics and myocardial marker measurement and testing units, as well as clinic establishment support services, clinic publicity support services, new construction and expansion/renovation proposals, and so on.
Furthermore, the Hospital Show organized the "I Made It Using This! Nurse Idea Award" contest, a special project continued from last year. A total of 66 entries were received from across Japan, and after careful examination, 6 entries won prizes and were exhibited at the show. On each of the three days of the Hospital Show, an award ceremony granting one Grand Prix award and two Second Grand Prix awards was held, along with presentations by the award winners, receiving high praises by visitors.

Conferences and Seminars
The Opening Session held on July 15 featured a presentation Shuzo Yamamoto, Chairman of the Japan Hospital Association entitled "In Search of a Way to the Medical Reproduction", which proved very popular, with the venues indeed being a place of much intensity. Besides these, the Japan Hospital Association Open Lecture was also bustling with activity.
On the 16th, a symposium entitled "Brightness of the Life" was attended by over 200 people and attendees could be seen listening enthusiastically to the proceedings, and the IT Forum with the theme of "the Next Generation Electronic Patient Record Systems" was prosperous very much.
On the 17th, the Hospital Management Forum, and the special session were convened and enjoyed full turnouts.
Furthermore, Exhibiting Company Presentation Seminars, and various stages within special exhibits and exhibit corners were held for exhibiting companies to clearly and effectively announce products where merely exhibiting would have been insufficient to communicate the merits of new products, technical services, and user case studies. All sessions proved to be very popular.