A world where optimal medical care reaches patients who really need it.
In a country I visited in my twenties, I witnessed for the first time the existence of a 'poor country'. In the taxi from the airport to the hotel, every time the car stopped at a traffic light, a crowd of begging children would come swarming the taxi. I remember that scene as if it were only yesterday, and at the same time I felt scared and thought that this was the reality of the world.
Later, through my work in pharmaceutical marketing, I realized many times that there are 'limits to medicine under capitalism'. Drugs that are not marketable are rarely developed, even if there is a need for them as medicines. There are diseases specific to developing countries, such as black fever and malaria, which could not be saved from death unless medicines were available. It was around that time that I started thinking about the challenges facing society and the healthcare industry. For the same reason, medicines, methods of treating diseases that do not require medical equipment and medical technology are also not shared among doctors due to the lack of efficient means of communication, and the patients who are in need are not properly attended to. We are aware that there are disparities in healthcare between rich and poor, between regions and in many other places.
Therefore, we are currently developing two services to ensure that the information exchange of doctors' skills and knowledge are not solely dependent on the healthcare industry, but are shared more quickly among and by the doctors themselves. By providing a system that allows doctors to learn from specialists around the world (specialist support platform e-casebook) and a system that allows doctors to consult with specialists remotely as needed in clinical practice (telemedicine support system Caseline), we strive to create a world where doctors can cooperate with specialists around the world to treat patients.
If there are issues in healthcare for which market mechanisms do not work, we strive to complement them with the power of ICT.
That is our challenge.
