1.The ideal focus of the study in the drug information sciences
Yasuhiko Yamada ; Yasufumi Sawada ; Koujirou Yamamoto ; Takashi Iikubo ; Hisakazu Ohtani ; Naoki Kamimura ; Yoshihiro Abe ; Keiko Uehara ; Takafumi Ohta ; Takao ORII ; Toshiko Kishimoto ; Mitsuo Saito ; Keiko Butatsu ; Hiroyuki Taruno ; Youhei Chikazawa ; Hiromitsu Nakasa ; Masayuki Hashiguchi ; Satoko HORI ; Toshinori Yamamoto
Japanese Journal of Drug Informatics 2009;11(2):76-87
In 2008, Japanese Society of Drug Informatics (JASDI) organized the Future Vision Committee (the Committee) to propose the essential focus of drug informatics. To explore a future vision about the drug information sciences, it was necessary to collect a variety of opinions widely from researchers. Therefore, at the 11th annual meeting of JASDI in July 5-6, 2008, the Committee convened a workshop to extract problems in the researches of drug informatics by using KJ method and evaluated the contents. The major problems raised were “the field of drug informatics is too broad” and “there is no definition and/or no system of the drug informatics”. Related problems raised are the shortness of the history and lack of originality in the study. From different viewpoints, it was also pointed out that the methodology of the research is not well established and no systematic education is provided. Taken together, major problems in drug informatics are concluded to be the lack of definition and the lack of systematizations, and will be solved to a certain extent by defining the outcome of the researches in drug informatics.
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