Business TrendsAdoption of CoDMON, a childcare operations support SaaS that won the BabyTech Award Japan 2019 Excellence Award in the Facility Management category, by local governments is growing. According to Codmon, Inc., 15 municipalities have already introduced the system, and demonstration experiments are underway...
Product IntroductionParenting Application "Smile Kurinavi!" has begun distribution, according to the company. In February 2018, we will start distributing a smartphone application that supports child-rearing, "Smile Kurinavi! application for smartphones to support child-rearing will begin distribution in February 2018. The information to be distributed will include information on childcare support may...
childcareThe Tokyo Metropolitan Government will begin subsidizing the use of babysitters as a new measure for children waiting for a babysitter starting in FY2018. The upper limit is 280,000 yen per month. The subsidy will be provided until the child can be left at a daycare center after childcare leave...
health careIt would be interesting if they did this kind of survey in Japan. It scores the differences between the best and worst states in the US in terms of child-rearing environment from various angles. 2017's Best & Worst States t...
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 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...
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 IntroductionHokota City in Ibaraki Prefecture has released a child-rearing support application. Child-rearing support with a smartphone, Hokota City provides an app to notify vaccination information, etc. - quoted from Ibaraki Shimbun Cross Eye-. The application provides notifications of vaccinations and health checkups according to the growth of the child, information on child-rearing events, and...
childcareThis is a bold move again...! Amazing town with "free house" and "7,020,000 yen for child-raising support" Brief summary A house with land will be given away free of charge if the applicant lives there for at least 15 years. Applicants must be a couple under 40 years old or under 50 years old and under junior high school age...
health carePapaSmile's mission is to "make fathers' child-rearing more fun. Himeji City in Hyogo Prefecture has released a child-rearing textbook for new fathers. Himeji City has created a "child-rearing textbook" to support new fathers.
health careThe "One Coin Magokoro Service" was started in 2012 in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, and the number of those users has been increasing, so it is becoming more established. The fact that the fee has been reduced from 500 yen to 100 yen since April 2014 also seems to be significant. 10...
health careBabyTech also covers childcare and healthcare policy initiatives in Japan and abroad under the category "Healthcare. In this issue, my editor-in-chief, a guardian in my hometown of Ota Ward, Tokyo, is suing the ward for "unfairly failing to get a preschool...
Product IntroductionThe government does this kind of thing too! Child-raising support site "Mama Fure Fujieda" - Smartphone application is born - is designed to provide information on government support and other systems and information that can be applied for use according to pregnancy, childbirth, and infant...
health careOne year of a project in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, to watch over the elderly using Bluetooth A management system using Bluetooth is provided free of charge for two years to people with dementia and elderly people living alone who have registered in advance. Receivers are installed at 38 locations in the city, including roads and stores...
