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Data Definition: Municipal Health, Medical and Nursing Care digitalization (PMH) - Medical Subsidy Dashboard

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The various materials used for the dashboard were collected in Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Digital Agency.
Definitions of the various data and numerical values are as follows:

Table of Contents

& General

This dashboard covers the medical care support programs published in "List of Local Governments in Digital Agency Preceding the Implementation of PMH (Medical Care Support) - " published by Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
In addition, local independent medical expense subsidy programs that are independently implemented by local governments are not included in the scope of this dashboard, because the content and targets of the program differ from local government to local government.

Response of local governments

Number of participating local governments

Number of local governments participating in preliminary implementation of PMH (Public Medical Hub)

  • *Even when a prefecture complies with the system, municipalities within that prefecture are not automatically counted as municipalities that have implemented the system; rather, participating prefectures and municipalities are each counted as one municipality.

Response by local governments

The correspondence status of the medical care support system by each local government is as follows.

  • Resolved: Resolved
  • To be implemented in the next fiscal year
  • N / A: None planned
  • Not Applicable: N / A

Response of medical institutions, etc.

Number of introducing medical institutions, etc.

Number of medical institutions and pharmacies that have introduced online eligibility verification for medical care subsidies

Adoption rate

Number of medical institutions and pharmacies that have introduced the medical subsidy online eligibility verification system / Number of medical institutions and pharmacies that have introduced the online eligibility verification system

  • *As the timing of aggregation differs between the numerator and the denominator, the adoption rate is shown uniformly as 100% when the numerator exceeds the denominator.

Number of transactions

Number of transactions per month at medical institutions (10,000 transactions)

Monthly usage of the medical subsidy online eligibility verification at medical institutions and pharmacies (ten thousand)

  • *The number of online entitlement confirmations is aggregated by municipality based on the location of the healthcare provider. Therefore, even in municipalities that do not have a medical subsidy program connected to PMH, cases may be counted when an online entitlement confirmation of eligibility issued by another municipality is performed at a healthcare provider in the municipality.
  • *Due to the system specifications, the same examinee may be inquired multiple times, so the actual number of users may not match.

Number of medical institutions, etc.

Number of medical institutions that have used the online qualification confirmation system for subsidizing medical expenses (months)

Number of events per medical institution

Online eligibility confirmation for medical care subsidies / Number of medical institutions using the services