health careI have just noticed that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has gathered a group of experts to exchange opinions on the use of AI under the title of "Roundtable Conference on the Promotion of AI Application in the Health and Medical Care Field". I checked the minutes of one of the meetings and found the following exchange of views...
health careMimamori (watch-over-elderly) services are beginning to be undertaken by local governments, but Japan Post has decided to effectively withdraw from the business. Japan Post has drastically scaled back its Mimamori business for the elderly....It has also decided to distribute tablets and make the business a subsidiary. Initially, an operating subsidiary was established with the launch of the business, and Japan Post's Tani...
startupFrom Founders' Notebook. AI, Robotics, and Healthcare Venture Seven Dreamers Raises ¥2.5 Billion! On June 15, 2017, seven dreamers laboratories, Inc. raised 2.5 billion yen through a third-party allotment of new shares and a research and development grant...
Product IntroductionOne after another, local governments are releasing applications to support marriage and child rearing. On January 31, Ueda City in Nagano Prefecture released a website called "Ueda Family" to support marriage and child rearing in Ueda City. Marriage and child-rearing support website "Ueda...
Product IntroductionFrom a Yomiuri Shimbun release. AI Provides Child-Raising Information Saitama City Saitama City has begun distributing "Misono Child-Raising Style Bambi Bambi," a free application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically collect information on local events. A model urban development district...
Product IntroductionFrom PRTimes. MTI's "Electronic Maternal and Child Health Handbook" is now available in Izumozaki Town, Niigata Prefecture. The main features are as follows, taken from the AppStore app page. The main functions are as follows: ・Record of vaccinations and su...
startupHow much is $900 million in Japanese yen? GRAIL, a cancer detection startup funded by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, raises $900 million from Dentsu Ventures and others to enter the Japanese market...
Product IntroductionSo these are the needs. In many cases, they wish to receive care at home but do not have a place to stay. The reason for the development of the "Residential Care Trailer House Kizuna Fund" came from customer feedback...
startupeWeLL Co., Ltd. has raised a total of 450 million yen in funding from Sumitomo Corporation and other investors. eWeLL Co., Ltd. which operates "iBow," a business support system application for visiting nurse stations (headquartered in Osaka City, Osaka...
Product IntroductionThis article is not [PR]. It is not a tie-up project, and the BabyTech editorial department is introducing it on its own. When we wrote the article we posted the other day about the Noboribetsu City Council of Social Welfare, which is challenging a project to watch over people using tablet terminals, there were already similar products and services...
health careThe government is inevitably taking measures for the elderly first. Noboribetsu City Council of Social Welfare to Start Full-Scale Monitoring with Tablet Devices in July The Noboribetsu City Council of Social Welfare (chaired by Masayuki Yamada) will begin full-scale implementation of a monitoring network project using tablet devices in July. The project will begin in July...
Product IntroductionIn slightly older news (about a month ago), Twiggle, which is developing a search engine specifically in e-commerce with machine learning, has raised $15M in funding. The money will be used to pay for hiring personnel and sales promotion...
startupCheck out the following article on TechCrunch, BabyTech is also starting to see an increase in funding. Baby tech draws seed funding and a few big rounds...
startupFrom Tech.eu, Castor EDC, which aims to handle medical data and research across diagnostic information, has successfully raised approximately €1.1 million in funding. So the medical data collected is the road to AI. Dutch medical ...
health careYokohama City will launch a verification project to explore the correlation between walking and health. Yokohama City's "Walking Point Project": Effects of Reducing Medical Expenses Databased and Calculated The relationship between walking and health is a science. Starting in FY2017, the City of Yokohama will begin...
Product IntroductionWearable device for activity management for children has been released. Garmin's First Lifelog Band for Kids is Now Available Vivofitr(R) jr. to be released in late April 2017 Key Specifications - Su...
