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
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
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