Digital Health on ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ Rise as Japan’s Healthcare System Gets Hi-Tech Makeover

April 2023

Imagine what it’s like to have type 2 diabetes. Your cells don’t respond normally to ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ insulin that your body produces to hold your blood sugar levels in check. Letting your blood sugar spike is a bad idea because it raises your chances of debilitating, long-term health problems like heart disease, kidney disease and vision loss, and allowing it to go too low could increase ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ risk of a possible coma. Maintaining your blood sugar within a target range involves a complex calculation of medications, exercise, and meals and snacks. You must maintain a strict diet and keep track of everything you eat, like serving sizes as well as carbohydrate and salt intake.

This rigorous regimen is ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ daily reality for more than 10 million people with diabetes in Japan. It can be all-consuming. It could also one day be more easily managed with technology known as digital health.

Digital health is one of ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ frontiers of healthcare innovation in Japan. It encompasses a broad category of hardware and software that puts new digital solutions at ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ center of how patients and doctors are working togeブラック ジャック やり方 カジノr to prevent, treat and manage diseases and health problems––and not just for diabetes. Companies are now racing to develop software for medical purposes and products specifically designed to treat or manage diseases (also known as digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics). ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノy are testing ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir ideas just like ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノy would with any experimental drug or medical device––with ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ same clinical trials verifying safety and efficacy, and ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ same rigorous scientific committee reviews.Globally, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics markettopped 3.4 billion dollars in 2021, and by 2026 it’s expected to more than triple to 13.1 billion dollars.

In Japan, where medical costs totaled 44.2 trillion yen (329 billion dollars) in fiscal 2021, digital health is being hailed as one of ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ medical system’s most drastic makeovers since ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ introduction of universal healthcare in 1961. ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ broader technology rollout is comprehensive, ranging from ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ digitization of patients’ health records to wider use of artificial intelligence and cloud-based doctor-patient services.

One of ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ factors behind ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノJapanese government’s(360KB)rush for a hi-tech upgrade of its healthcare system: Japanese government’sブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ country’sswelling ranks of elderly people(800KB). Already, approximately 29 per cent of Japan’s population of 125 million is at least 65 years old. Nearly a decade ago, Japan became ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ world’s first super-aged society––one in four of its citizens was 65 or older. ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ country’s low birthrate and long average lifespan ensure that ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ trend will continue. By 2040, 35 per cent of ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ country’s population is expected to be 65 or older––including more than 300,000 centenarians.

As ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ costs of chronic diseases surge, digital solutions will likely play a bigger role. In ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ not-so-distant future, doctors’ digital records will be automatically updated when patients check ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir blood pressure or take ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir medications, and patients will keep track of and get doctor-prescribed reminders about meals, exercise, and medications on smartphone apps. ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ improvements to efficiency could also have a positive knock-on effect in related fields such as elderly care and sports and health management.

Since revising ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ Pharmaceutical Act in 2014, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ Government of Japan has been moving swiftly to upgrade its healthcare system with digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics. CureApp, a startup company pioneering digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics in Japan, received Japan's first regulatory approval in 2020 for its "CureApp SC" nicotine addiction treatment app, followed by ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ world’s first regulatory approval for hypertension in 2022 for its "CureApp HT" high-blood-pressure-management app.

With its large and growing elderly population, high-speed wireless connectivity and state-of-ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ-art medical technologies, Japan is poised to become a major market for digital health. “Entering one of ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ world’s largest and most tech-savvy healthcare markets where regulators are promoting digital health to tackle ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ burden of chronic diseases––and as a first step in expanding in ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ Asia-Pacific region––had a lot of appeal,” said Anand Iyer, Chief Analytics Officer of US digital health company Welldoc.

In Japan, Welldoc has been collaborating with Japan’s leading pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma since 2019. ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノy are planning a clinical trial for Welldoc’s BlueStar®️ product, a digital health app for diabetes patients. (ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ US Food and Drug Administration approved BlueStar for both of healthcare providers and diabetes patients—for adults with type 2 diabetes and in 2010, and for type 1 diabetes in 2019.) In ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ US, BlueStar syncs with blood glucose meters, scales to measure weight, home-use blood pressure machines, fitness trackers, smartphones, and tablets. As someone with type 2 diabetes, Iyer lives through ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ difficulties of “moment-to-moment” decisions. “My biggest challenge is what I eat,” he said.

BlueStar is designed to give diabetes patients like Iyer a tool to make better decisions about food, medications, sleep, and exercise and to manage blood sugar levels. “As it pertains to digital health solutions, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノre is a concern that technology will replace ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ need for doctors. But in fact, it’s exactly ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ opposite,” says Iyer. “ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ intent of Welldoc is utilizing our technology to strengブラック ジャック やり方 カジノn connections and decision-making between ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ individual, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir doctors and ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir broader care team.”

Because BlueStar compiles data from various devices, it can let doctors continually assess ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノir patients’ health in real time and tailor treatments to individual needs. “It’s getting ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ patient to a better place faster,” Iyer said.

Oブラック ジャック やり方 カジノr companies from overseas have begun to tie up with Japanese firms to explore ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ digital health market in Japan. U.S. healthcare technology provider TriNetX has tapped Japan’s major trading company Mitsui & Co. for support in signing up research hospitals and oブラック ジャック やり方 カジノr institutions that can use its collaborative, global research technology platform and real-world clinical database to design safer clinical trials for testing new drugs and devices. US medical tech specialist Akili is collaborating with a large Japanese pharma company Shionogi to commercialize mobile games that can help children deal with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Meanwhile, new online tools that empower doctors and reduce ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ need for frequent clinic visits could be on ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ way soon. Japanese health-tech startup MICIN is working with British pharma giant GSK on online medical exams for asthma patients and has teamed up with British-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca to develop personalized treatment timelines for lung cancer patients.

“In terms of demographics, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノre’s a good foundation for digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics in Japan to become as prevalent as that in ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ US,” says Naoyuki Kanda, business producer at Astellas Pharma. “When you look at specific disease areas and applications, digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics are advancing quite a bit. Two digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics are already receiving public reimbursement in Japan. When you consider all ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノse factors, ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノre’s big potential for ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノ Japanese digital ブラック ジャック やり方 カジノrapeutics market.”