(Source) Materials provided from the Jikei University School of Medicine

Figure 3-3-1-2 Image of coordination between MySOS, Join, and Team

MySOS	Join	Team
Users / Summary	App that patients and ordinary people install and use on their smartphones	App that allows medical practitioners (doctors, dentists, registered nurses, etc.) communicate with each other	Consists of the Kaigo / Kango apps, which make operations more efficient for home care and home healthcare providers, and a cloud system that backs regional comprehensive care systems, by means of coordinating information between multiple occupations
Information handled	Health and chronic disease information, medication history, family doctor, medical examination results, blood collection data, etc.	Text messages, CT scans, MRI images, hospital room and operating room video, etc.	Medical treatment information, daily caregiving records, medication history, etc.
Typical applications	·Sends rescue requests to nearby app users and to family members set as emergency contacts
·When an emergency occurs to the app user, the app displays an assessment of the situation to third parties as well as emergency treatment methods and the user's family doctor	·Able to see video of operating rooms or hospital rooms from remote locations at any time
·When the doctor on duty or a doctor at a general hospital in a local region examines a patient outside of their specialty, the doctor can request advice from a specialist in another location	·Home care and home healthcare providers can use a mobile device to enter and upload records from the patient's home
·Share daily caregiving records, medication history, and other information with multiple occupations, including doctors and pharmacists
Charges	Free	900 yen per month per ID	No fixed retail price

(Source) "Study Report on an International Analysis of User Perceptions of New Forms of ICT in the IoT Era," MIC (2016)

days from specialists who are out on calls or at home. It also makes it possible to arrange conditions so that doctors on duty or inexperienced doctors can easily consult with specialists, even when no specialists are present at the hospital, about complex diagnoses. In fact, around 4,000 messages were exchanged in the first six months of introducing the system at the Jikei University School of Medicine.

Applications of systems like these to emergency medicine are expected to reduce cases of emergency patients passing away while being sent from hospital to hospital. Mechanisms are being examined where paramedics are given MySOS apps to coordinate with doctors using Join. The Jikei University School of Medicine and University of Tokushima are cooperating to run demonstration trials of these mechanisms. When paramedics share detailed information about the patient's condition right away with doctors, the hospital can make preparations for surgery with a good idea of what treatment is necessary before the patient arrives and reduce the time the patient waits for surgery. Furthermore, by taking advantage of the system's ability to reference medical information from remote locations, local clinics can coordinate with university hospitals that have specialists and even small hospitals can provide advanced treatments (Figure 3-3-1-3).