Japan Electronic Health Records Market Size, Share, and COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Product (Client Server-Based EHR, Web-Based EHR), By Type (Acute, Ambulatory, Post-Acute), and Japan Electronic Health Records Market Insights, Industry Trend, Forecasts to 2035

Japan Electronic Health Records Market Size Insights Forecasts to 2035

• The Japan Electronic Health Records Market Size Was Estimated at USD 738.27 Million in 2024
• The Market Size is Expected to Grow at a CAGR of around 4.33% from 2025 to 2035
• The Japan Electronic Health Records Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 1176.23 Million by 2035

According to a Research Report Published by Spherical Insights & Consulting, the Japan Electronic Health Records Market Size is anticipated to reach USD 1176.23 Million by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 4.33% from 2025 to 2035.  Various elements, including government health digitalization initiatives and increasing technological adoption along with patient-focused care approaches, fuel the rising market for electronic medical records (EMRs) in Japan. The EMR market expands because of these factors along with the requirement for enhanced healthcare results and better management practices.

Market Overview

The Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Market represents the worldwide industry that offers digital platforms that help healthcare providers electronically store and share patient health data. The market encompasses software and services together with supporting technologies that enable electronic health records (EHRs) and different electronic medical record systems to digitize patient information. The Japan Electronic Health Records (EHR) market experiences rapid changes because of major technological developments and regulatory modifications, as well as evolving medical needs. The market experiences substantial growth because of government programs and technological progress, together with the rising demand for healthcare management effectiveness. The Japanese EHR market has strong growth potential because of ongoing government support and technological progress, together with rising operational efficiency needs. The market will expand because healthcare management systems are moving toward centralized and streamlined operations. Health information management centralization occurs because value-based approaches seek to optimize operations through standardization, cost reduction, and quality care improvement, which ultimately leads to patient satisfaction.

Major players operating within the Japanese electronic medical records (EMR) market find potential growth through interoperability and cloud-based EMR systems, together with AI-driven insights and personalized healthcare delivery. The pandemic, combined with government initiatives, pushes digital health forward while increasing EMR adoption, which creates an advantageous environment for innovation and market expansion. The Japanese government has launched a robust healthcare modernization program that heavily promotes Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) adoption. The healthcare system benefits from incentives, together with regulatory obstacle reduction and facility interoperability promotion. The Medical Digital Transformation (DX) Promotion Plan, started in 2022, serves as a specific measure that speeds up healthcare digitization.

Report Coverage

This research report categorizes the market for the Japan electronic health records market based on various segments and regions and forecasts revenue growth and analyzes trends in each submarket. The report analyses the key growth drivers, opportunities, and challenges influencing the Japan electronic health records market. Recent market developments and competitive strategies such as expansion, product launch, and development, partnership, merger, and acquisition have been included to draw the competitive landscape in the market. The report strategically identifies and profiles the key market players and analyses their core competencies in each sub-segment of the Japan electronic health records market.

Driving Factors

The expansion of the Japanese Electronic Health Records (EHR) market results primarily from increasing adoption of advanced medical technologies. The growing adoption of telemedicine combines with expanding wearable technology, alongside developing mobile health applications and AI and ML implementation. The combination of these technologies improves EHR system usability, accessibility, and effectiveness, which promotes widespread adoption. Medical professionals use EHR systems to analyze wearable technology data, which enables them to detect patterns for immediate actions. Electronic health record (EHR) systems continue to grow because the patient-centered treatment method expands throughout Japan. The approach of patient-centered care seeks to provide customized healthcare services that match patient choices while respecting their values and needs. The strategy requires healthcare organizations to deploy EHR systems that provide thorough, individualized, accessible patient management. EHR systems serve as critical tools for individual therapy because they store complete current patient data, which includes medical records, genetic information, and lifestyle details. The increasing importance of customized care drives the rising requirement for EHR systems that can effectively combine and utilize patient information. The healthcare management market in Japan continues to grow because electronic health record (EHR) systems have become more popular. EHR systems address healthcare organization demands for operational improvement and cost reduction, and better patient care through their ability to streamline various clinical and healthcare administrative processes. EHR systems automate multiple administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling and billing processes, and medical coding, along with patient data recording.

Restraining Factors

EHR system implementation across Japan encounters major difficulties because patients fear privacy breaches and data security problems. Health data includes extremely sensitive information that makes it a target for security breaches and cyberattacks. The critical information that healthcare organizations maintain makes them a preferred target for hacker attacks, even though they implement cybersecurity protection systems. The effectiveness and efficiency of EHR systems face serious limitations due to interoperability issues. The lack of standardized formats and methods stands as a major barrier to health data exchange. The exchange and integration of patient information becomes difficult because multiple EHR systems and healthcare providers utilize different data formats. The high cost of deploying and maintaining EHR systems stands as one of the greatest challenges for numerous healthcare providers. The initial expense of EHR system adoption proves too high for many smaller healthcare organizations. The total expenses consist of staff recruitment costs, together with hardware and software acquisition, along with potential infrastructure modernization needs.

Market Segmentation

The Japan electronic health records market share is classified into product and type.

• The web-based EHR segment held the largest share in 2024 and is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the forecast period.

The Japan electronic health records market is segmented by product into client-server-based EHR, web-based EHR. Among these, the web-based EHR segment held the largest share in 2024 and is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the forecast period. Web-based EHR systems drive segmental growth because their initial costs remain lower than on-premise systems. The total cost of ownership becomes lower because web-based EHRs eliminate both long hardware installation processes and ongoing maintenance requirements. Web-based EHRs maintain low costs, which makes them highly desirable for Japanese healthcare providers with limited IT budgets, specifically small and medium-sized operations. Web-based EHR system installation takes less time and requires fewer steps than on-premise systems. Web-based EHRs offer flexibility to medical organizations through their scalable design, which allows them to increase their capacity based on changing requirements. Modern web-based EHR systems include advanced security protocols that protect confidential patient data.

• The acute segment held the largest share in 2024 and is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the forecast period.

The Japan electronic health records market is segmented by type into acute, ambulatory, and post-acute. Among these, the acute segment held the largest share in 2024 and is expected to grow at a significant CAGR during the forecast period. The foundation of Japan's healthcare system consists of acute care hospitals, which deliver essential urgent medical services. These hospitals require dependable EHR solutions for their large patient populations, complex medical documentation, and fast data input needs. The system maintains detailed patient records by supporting the documentation of medical histories, diagnostic information, together with treatment courses and outcomes. The acute EHR segment serves to enhance process management within fast-paced medical environments. The design of acute EHR systems includes features that enhance communication among multidisciplinary teams and enable better collaboration.

Competitive Analysis:

The report offers the appropriate analysis of the key organizations/companies involved within the Japan electronic health records market along with a comparative evaluation primarily based on their product offering, business overviews, geographic presence, enterprise strategies, segment market share, and SWOT analysis. The report also provides an elaborative analysis focusing on the current news and developments of the companies, which includes product development, innovations, joint ventures, partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, strategic alliances, and others. This allows for the evaluation of the overall competition within the market.

List of Key Companies

• NTT DATA Group Corporation
• Fujitsu Limited
• NEC Corporation
• Toshiba International Corporation
• Medical Information Technology, Inc
• Epic Systems Corporation
• Others

Recent Developments:

• In March 2024, the joint study between Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and NTT DATA focused on analyzing unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data of IBD patients. The research sought to understand actual treatment patterns and identify medication-resistant IBD patient characteristics while working to improve care. The project's goal is to perform morphological analysis on electronic health record text through text mining to find keywords that identify therapy-resistant patients. The project will prioritize text-based techniques over creating AI models or conducting detailed investigations.

• In March 2023, Fujitsu unveiled a new cloud-based platform that allows users to securely collect and utilize health data for medical industry digital transformation. Fujitsu Uvance's "Healthy Living" vision guides the new product as Fujitsu continues its work toward building a sustainable world by promoting a healthy society. The new platform from Fujitsu will be accessible to pharmaceutical companies and medical institutions that operate within Japan.

Key Target Audience

• Market Players
• Investors
• End-users
• Government Authorities 
• Consulting and Research Firm
• Venture capitalists
• Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

Market Segment

This study forecasts revenue at the global, regional, and country levels from 2020 to 2035. Spherical Insights has segmented the Japan Electronic Health Records Market based on the below-mentioned segments:

Japan Electronic Health Records Market, By Product

• Client Server-Based HER
• Web-Based EHR

Japan Electronic Health Records Market, By Type

• Acute
• Ambulatory
• Post-Acute