April 2019 to March 2020

Hajime Yamada (General Manager, Accessibility Study Group; Professor Emeritus, Toyo University）
Takashi Kawazoe (President, Carepro, Inc.)
Naoki Sakakibara (Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Studies, Seisen Jogakuin College)
Ryoko Shimono (Project Assistant Professor, Presidential Endowed Chair for “Platinum Society”, the University of Tokyo)
Chika Sekine (Chairperson and Senior Fellow, UDIT Inc.)
Isamu Hirao (President, Regional manegement Platinum lnstitute)
Keiko FUJIKATA (NPO Shonan Fujisawa Senior Network)
Naomi YATOMI (Cooperating Fellow, General Aging Society Research Organization, University of Tokyo; Representative Director, SLF Second Life Factory)
Kazuko Yuma (Chief Fellow, Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies)

Use of the latest technologies in the health care field is expected to yield various benefits such as providing personalized care, encouraging awareness of health, and enabling the elderly to participate more in society, but there are still many obstacles for such applications. To advance such initiatives steadily, in addition to "macro" aspects such as having a sustainable social security system, it will also be necessary to consider issues that are important from the perspective of patients and citizens, such as how to improve Quality of Life (QOL) and create a vibrant society, as well as ensuring Quality of Death (QOD), so that people's desires toward the end of their lives are properly respected. 

In this research we used a study group format to study cases of advanced use of AI and Big Data in the fields of health, medicine and nursing, and policy trends in related government ministries and agencies. We introduce advanced cases in Japan, including a study at Kanazawa University to validate changes in building and operating online health guidance services for lifestyle-related illnesses, Smart Shoes at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, regional cooperation and ACP sharing by the Kanazawa City Medical Association's Heartnet Hospital, and initiatives to build inter-generational community with "Gocha maze" at Share Kanazawa, and regional promotion in Kanazawa City using AI and other technologies. We also report on initiatives outside of Japan, including a field study and use of digital power of attorney, which is working to establish both digitization and a welfare state in Denmark, on the EGOO single-drop-of-blood home examination tool from Qlife Inc., on the TO+ home care early detection tool from Symmetric Inc., and efforts to improve health literacy through animation in the City of Viborg. 

From the results of the these studies, we summarize how ICT should be used to improve QOL/QOD in Japan, with its aging society, in the form of proposals such as accelerating personalization, home care, and home detection of symptoms by using HIE and PHR to share self-care data between regional medical systems, promoting behavior change in patients, citizens and care providers, and promoting initiatives that use ICT to incorporate nudges and mechanisms for connecting to EBPM into existing systems .