
Respondents complained that the online database known as HER-SYS system is too time consuming to use. - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters): Japanese health workers are snubbing the government's real-time Covid-19 database introduced in the middle of the pandemic to better deal with outbreaks, pointing to hurdles for the new prime minister's goal of digitising the government.
Just 40 per cent of medical institutions are using the online database known as HER-SYS that was rolled out in May, a Health Ministry survey showed this week.
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