Overview
Japan, facing a world-leading low birth rate and aging population, is in urgent need of structural shift to a "Self-Managing Healthy Society" where "one takes care of one's own health, aged people support the society together with the younger generation, and GNI (gross national income) is increased as a result of the creation of a new health and medical industry." To realize a "Self-Managing Healthy Society," it is imperative to develop an innovative system for prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment that dramatically reduces hospitalization and visits to the doctor’s office, and to create a new business model for a health and medical guidance service based on scientific evidence to stay "healthy at home." The COI aims at the maintenance and improvement of health, based on the utilization of medical information.
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