Dr. Takamaro Matsuura

• Director of Goshiki Hospital. Osaka Medical School, M.D., Part-time Lecturer at the Osaka Medical School. Vice chairman of the Kinki District Medical Facilities Council of the National Health Insurance.
• Dr. Matsuura worked at Osaka Medical School Hospital in 1972, and Saku General Hospital in Nagano Prefecture between 1972 and 1982, where he served as a Head of Health Management Department in 1982. In 1983 he was invited to the current Goshiki Hospital as a director.
  Dr. Matsuura played a crucial role in the initiation of advanced medical information systems in Goshiki-cho such as medical IC cards and two-way optical fiber medical network systems. IC cards help the efficient health management of town people through the stored medical information on the cards, while medical network systems enable real-time interactive medical communication between doctors at hospitals and patients at home through voices and images.
  Dr. Matsuura's pastime hobbies are literary arts and traveling.