[Japanese National Plan for Promotion of Measures against Stroke and Cardiovascular Diseases and Data-Based Health Management Initiatives].

This review outlines the recent advances in stroke and cardiovascular diseases control and direction of national data health reform. Since the enactment of the Basic Act on Countermeasures against Cardiovascular Diseases, the national government and related academic societies have collaborated to promote countermeasures based on five key pillars; medical systems development, registration projects promotion, human resource development, public awareness, and research promotion. Simultaneously, the government is intensively promoting data health reform to compensate for the delay in digital medicine that became evident in the new coronary infection. Data health reform has four major pillars; promotion of using genomic medicine and artificial intelligence(AI), promotion of personal health records(PHR), promotion of information utilization in medical and nursing care settings, and promotion of effective database utilization. Five years have passed since the Basic Act on Countermeasures for Cardiovascular Diseases was enacted, and it is important that the Japanese Stroke Association, Japanese Cardiovascular Society and other related academic societies, government, prefectures, and National Cardiovascular Center collaborate to vigorously promote the cardiovascular disease countermeasures.