Fujitsu's new business opportunity "elderly care cloud computing"

Japan Fujitsu The group announced on January 23, 2013 the introduction of family medical care and nursing services for the elderly in Japan Elderly Care cloud computing.
as the first cannon, first launched two SaaS software and medical Consulting center services for medical staff. The two types of SaaS are "home-based Medical support SaaS", which manages the work arrangement for medical staff, and "home-based Care SaaS" for sharing patient information for clinics, drug bureaus and nursing institutions. In addition, the establishment of medical counseling center services, resident nurses here, can be 24 hours for patients and their families to provide counselling assistance. The monthly start-up costs for three services were 70,000 yen, 100,000 yen and 70,000 yen, and Fujitsu plans to achieve 6 billion sales by 2015. the number of users refers to 1000 family medical facilities, nurses, pharmacists and health administrators.

Fujitsu Group puts forward the medium and long term business philosophy of "people-oriented Intelligent society (Human-centric Intelligent Powering)", aiming at solving various social problems by using ICT technology, and actively promoting enterprise innovation in various fields and creating new social cloud computing services. At present, the company to achieve this plan to actively launch related services. Last year, for example, an integrated cloud computing service for agriculture, "Akisai", was launched to provide SaaS for agricultural production management.

"In the medical field, the Electronic diagnostics directory is the largest application software for the computer manufacturer, and it effectively improves the efficiency of the medical staff," said Gaoya, the Fujitsu's wife. But even if the electronic diagnostics book is popularized, it does not reduce disease. In this sense, our company wants to build the most humane system, that is, not sick or through health diagnosis to predict disease. And the elderly care cloud computing is a solution to this series of business plans, and will also actively promote innovation in the areas of health and healthcare, food and agriculture, energy and transportation through ICT technology. ”

"In 2012, the 65-year-old population was 6 million, the elderly population was over 30 million, it accounted for 24% of the total population and 2025 were expected to be as high as 30% years old," said Hankyu Masaki of the Social Cloud Development Division, which is responsible for the "Senior Care Cloud computing" business. The elderly live alone at 5.5 million, with a population of more than 20 million, although 60% of the elderly wish to recuperate at home, but in fact they probably died in hospital. ”

At the same time, Japan is facing problems with inadequate medical and nursing resources, such as the cost of national health care, which will increase from 35 trillion yen in 2012 to 52 trillion yen in 2025, which means that the medical and nursing care of the elderly through hospitals and facilities has reached its limit in the past. In the face of this situation, the State also actively advocates the development of family medicine, it is necessary to reform hospitals and beds, "Save the Medical care" and "health care" two functions to distinguish between, and establish relevant mechanisms.