Social Initiatives
Action Policy
As a result of the ageing society, the amount of taxes and public funds necessary to compensate the decline in the working population that is supporting the social security system and the cost of the social security system itself are both expected to increase sharply in Japan going forward. As the debt funding public expenditures is pushing the burden onto future generations, MDV believes it is important to implement measures to sustain people’s healthy lives in order to alleviate this burden and to build a sustainable social security system. MDV contributes to sustaining healthy lives and to building a sustainable social security system through business activities aimed at “providing a business support system for medical institutions that helps improve management of medical institutions, contributes to the standardization, unification, equality of access, and improved quality of medical care via the provision of benchmarks, and assists in curtailing the rise in medical expenses”, “enabling analysis and realization of issues in the medical sphere such as new prevention, diagnostic, and treatment methods through use of the largest medical database in Japan for research”, and “creating a society in which citizens manage their own medical and health information and can choose their own medical and health services based on this information, thus enabling health management and the prevention and early identification of diseases, while also realizing patient-focused medicine that promotes understanding of diseases and treatments.”
SDGs Initiatives
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are international targets for 2016 through 2030 adopted at the United Nations summit on September 2015 as agents of change needed to achieve sustainable development. They are comprised of 17 goals and 169 targets.
Target 3 Good Health and Well-Being
3.8：Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
Target 3 Good Health and Well-Being
3.8:Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
Toward achievement of universal health coverage (UHC)
Mechanism for managing own medical information (promote PHR through ‘Karteco’)
- Anybody can use ‘Karteco’ once registered
- No registration or usage fees
- Can view treatment information and health status of oneself and one’s family
- However, patients cannot view information deemed not shareable by doctors for various reasons
Links patients and medical institutions (doctors) Online database platform (ODB)
- Patients can receive treatment after searching by condition name or by doctors skilled in treating the condition
- Doctors can treat patients after confirming their medical and treatment histories
- →Linkages with ‘Karteco’ make information sharing possible
Target 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
9.1:Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
Target 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
9.1:Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
Japanese Cabinet Office aiming to creating “Society 5.0” that fuses economic development with solutions to social issues
Construction of next-generation medical platform
- HMV (Hyper Medical Vision) realizes Society 5.0 for the healthcare sector.
- The HMV platform provides functionality in four layers from 1st to 4th and two types of SaaS API. Using blockchain technology separated into four layers and seamlessly connected, it can integrate separated health information from various services for an individual using a common ID/password and enable unified management of personal information and #3eKYC linkage after supply of consent and personal authentication.
- Usage of the HMV platform by medical institutions can provide data security against natural disasters and the recent global spate of ransomware attacks in which hacker groups infiltrate a computer system and encrypt data such as medical records and demand money for its restoration.
- The functionality provided by 2nd OpenID Layer (PadBlock) enables optimized services to always be provided to each individual and allows the user to safely manage their own medical treatment and check information at medical institutions and to control consent to various services in real time.
Target 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
9.1:Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
Target 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
12:Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Target 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
9.1:Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
Target 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
12:Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Sustainable consumption under Society 5.0 requires high-quality reliable infrastructure and “confidence” in data handling
Medical information and real time data on physiological measurements is extremely sensitive information requiring reliable and safe services supported by appropriate management of privacy protection.
MDV devotes itself to the provision of safe services and pursues internal education based on the following technologies and rules to ensure appropriate management of information security. In addition, its construction of services and databases that users can utilize with peace of mind demonstrates its awareness of its duty to protecting service users.
Basic stance on handling of medical and health information
MDV believes that effective utilization of the vast amount of medical and health data it has accumulated will contribute to further improvement in the quality of medicine and create benefits for citizens. It is working to develop and sell systems in the medical and health space as well as to generate a multitude of service that leverage this medical and health data.
Basic policy on information security
https://en.mdv.co.jp/security-policy/MDV is acutely aware of the importance of information security and protection of personal information related to this medical data (particularly personal information on patients and hospitals) and by observing all relevant information security laws and ordinances, other criteria, and contractual securities responsibilities, it works to maintain a sophisticated information security management structure and to formulate and implement action policies.
Policy on protection of personal information (privacy policy)
https://en.mdv.co.jp/privacy-policy/MDV is acutely aware of the importance of protection of personal information related to medical data (particularly personal information on patients) and by observing the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and all other relevant information security laws and ordinances, it has formulated a basic policy on protection of personal information, the Policy on protection of personal information (privacy policy) through which it endeavors to ensure appropriate protection of personal information.
Handling of personal information and anonymized data
https://en.mdv.co.jp/anonymously-processed-information/MDV uses personal information (individual data) and anonymized data in accordance with personal information protection laws, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other relevant laws and ordinances.
