Digital Healthcare

In the medical and healthcare fields, health-tech companies are developing completely new, innovative services, such as treatment apps and program-specific medical equipment, in quick succession, and these developments are forecast to continue increasing. Use of these technologies is expected to create new value, such as by making healthcare and nursing care providers’ work more efficient and ensuring the provision of optimal medical treatment to each and every patient. However, despite the Japanese market being large, penetration into the market remains low, and even for highly functional, convenient services and technologies, the barriers are high to society-wide application. Furthermore, even when precious data such as personal health data is stored up, it cannot be used effectively because the related data is scattered. No matter how wonderful these technologies may be, they cannot provide value to society unless people use them. What this situation calls for is a function that spreads recognition and adoption of digital products in the medical and healthcare field.

Health-tech companies produce outstanding products and technologies from scratch, but they do not have the resources and channels for popularizing them. For its part, the Suzuken Group is rolling out a digital health business that utilizes our network of medical institutions and pharmacies and other customers that we have cultivated thus far to apply health-tech companies’ technology in society, increasing that value 100-fold or 1,000-fold.
We aim to create new added value by connecting individual services and data, with features such as a system that allows customers to access a variety of services and obtain diverse information using a single log-in, and a mechanism that organically interlocks data that can be utilized to create new solutions. To construct the digital platform that will realize these mechanisms, in March 2022, we established Collabo CREATE CO. LTD., which will conduct the planning and proposals for the platform, and Collabo PLACE CO. LTD., which will manage its development, construction, and operations.
And in April 2023, we began rolling out COLLABO Portal, a comprehensive portal site for medical and nursing care providers. This portal will fulfill the role of connecting our partner health-tech companies with patients, medical and nursing care providers,pharmaceutical companies, local governments, and the Suzuken Group. We have begun offering services nationwide and already have tens of thousands of IDs registered. We also began rental services in June 2023 for COLLABO Mobile, a communications device that will enable medical and nursing care providers to access digital health services all in one place when needed.
COLLABO Portal’s functions are installed as standard on COLLABO Mobile, and it can be used not only in facilities but also at patients’ homes and other home healthcare and nursing care sites in the community.