Activities of the WHO-FIC Asia-Pacific Network

　　　　　 Hiroyoshi Endo, Sukil Kim, Wansa Paoin, 　 Maliwan Yuenyongsuwan, Joon Hong, Yukiko Yokobori, 　　　　　　　 Chang Shik Yin OMD, Toshio Oi

WHO-FIC Annual Network Meeting 2014 The Plenary Poster Session

　 Barcelona October 13th, 2014

About Asia-Pacific Network (APN)

• Established: in 2006

• Objective: to promote ICD implementation in Asia-Pacific region

• Co-chairs (current): 　 Dr S.Kim (Korea) and Dr H.Endo (Japan)

• Secretariat: 　 Japan Hospital Association

APN website

Past meetingsTime Venue Participants

1st Oct.2006 Tunis (Tunisia) 9 countries

2nd Sep.2007 Kyoto (Japan) 13 countries

3rd Nov. 2008 Delhi (India) 10 countries

4th Sep. 2009 Hamamatsu (Japan) 9 countries

5th Dec. 2010 Tokyo (Japan) 6 countries

6th Jul. 2013 Bangkok (Thailand) 10 countries

The 6th meeting in BangkokDate: 　 July 18th - 19th, 2013Hosted: Ministry of Public Health, Government of ThailandSponsored: Japan Hospital AssociationParticipants: 9 countries

The 6th Meeting in Thailand

• Work plans

– To make an APN module based on the education certification module of WHO-FIC EIC

– To make a table of ICD training resources that each member country can offer

– To make an APN version of ICD-10 based on ICD-10 TM for PCU (Thailand)

APN ICD-10 Version

• Based on ICD-TM for PCU (Thailand)

• Simplified rules–Reduce number of original ICD codes–Eliminate complexity

Two Working Meetings

• To follow up the 6th APN meeting in Thailand

• Co-chairs, Dr Wansa, Ms Maliwan, Ms Yokobori, Ms Hong

• Development of the APN version of ICD-10

• Discussion on ICD-11 field trial