Smart119 cartoon was featured on NHK（Japanese public broadcaster） today.

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Be aware of "corona depression" during the year-end and New Year holidays.
How can we prevent it?
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20201228/k10012787681000.html

An easy-to-understand 5-step guide on how you can prevent, check and support those around you for "corona related suicide", is introduced in the article.

Ask, "Why do you want to die?"
A specialist tells you "The 5 steps to take when someone is thinking about suicide" - anan Beauty+:
(Direct link is now not available)
Alternative: https://woman.excite.co.jp/article/beauty/rid_ananbeauty_5602/

The following five steps are given as the key points.
(1) Ask "How are you hurt?" and "How can we help?"
(2) Try to avoid creating an isolated environment.
(3) Ask specifically about the means and plans they are considering, and determine the urgency of the situation in order to reduce the incidence of suicide.
(4) Help the person connect with suicide counseling services, support facilities, and specialists.
(5) Continuously contact the person to see if there is anything else that can be done.

Smart119 Inc. (Head office: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture; President/CEO: Takaaki Nakata) announced today that they have added a "staff health management function" to "Smart: DR" ,a disaster countermeasure system for medical institutions developed and operated by Smart119, to manage and count the daily physical condition of staff, and has begun trial operation at the Osaka Acute and General Hospital.

Smart DR" is a disaster countermeasure system for medical institutions that supports the sharing of information and the redeployment of personnel to emergency sites in the event of a disaster, terrorist attack, or other emergency. The system enables to smoothly confirm the safety of staff members and request their assembly using smartphones and PCs, and has been introduced at medical institutions such as Shimane University Hospital and Rinku General Medical Center.

◆"Smart DR" website https://smart119.biz/dr/

In the event of a disaster or terrorist attack, medical institutions must urgently convene a large number of medical staff. On the other hand, in the current period of the spread of new coronavirus infections, there is a particular need for measures to prevent cluster infection in hospitals. One of the most effective ways to do this is to manage the health of hospital staff on the front lines of healthcare.

"Staff Health Management Function" of "Smart DR" sends a health report to the staff's e-mail or LINE(freeware app for instant communications) every morning. The staff can report their own temperature, physical condition, attendance, etc. with simple input. The reported information is automatically aggregated and centrally managed by the administrator, and can be used for infection control in the hospital, such as forbidding the calling of staff with fever. It is possible to collect high quality information without much effort. The system is already in trial operation at the Osaka Acute and General Medical Center.

"Smart DR" complies with Business Continuity Planning (BCP), which is required in all hospitals nationwide, and the related technology has been patented (patent registration No. 6166114). The usefulness of the system has been reported as a paper in an overseas medical journal*.

◆To counter the new coronavirus, the daily physical condition of the staff should be managed in total.

In order to have staff report their health status, an email with the URL of a survey form is sent at a fixed time every morning. You can enter your temperature and physical condition for the day, your work status (day shift, night shift, or night shift), and if you need to take a day off, the reason.

Medical institutions can centrally manage the information registered by their staff. Infection control measures can be implemented according to risk.

◆Features of Smart: DR
-Simultaneous notification of disaster to all staff
-One-click response to assembly requests from headquarters
-Automatic aggregation of assembly status and assignment of personnel to emergency sites
-Speedy communication of information among staff via chat
-Management and aggregation of daily physical condition of staff

※1. Yamada M, Nakada TA, Nakao S, Hira E, Shinozaki K, Kawaguchi R, Mizushima Y, Matsuoka T. Novel information and communication technology system to improve surge capacity and information management in the initial hospital response to major incidents. Am J Emerg Med. 2019;37:351-355.

2. Tanaka K, Nakada TA, Fukuma H, Nakao S, Masunaga N, Tomita K, Matsumura Y, Mizushima Y, Matsuoka T. Development of a novel information and communication technology system to compensate for a sudden shortage of emergency department physicians. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2017;25:6.

Smart119 has launched "Smart ACES", a service that enables medical personnel to smoothly conduct emergency calls through their own computers and smartphones, to general medical institutions.
In hospitals that accept emergency patients, there are cases where requests to admit emergency patients overlap at the same time, making it difficult to respond due to lack of manpower.
Until now, emergency calls for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel have mainly been made by contacting them one by one via on-call telephone. The new "Smart ACES", which uses a cloud system, can automatically call for medical staff using e-mail, LINE (freeware app for instant communications) and LINEWORKS(a business version of LINE). Since it can gather medical staff quickly and efficiently, it is expected to reduce the number of emergency patients who are refused transport.

◆ "Smart ACES" service introduction video (30 seconds)
https://youtu.be/qv2556odmLU

To use "Smart ACES", all you need is a smartphone or PC that are already used in hospitals or individual staff members, and there is no need to install a new dedicated terminal. Hospitals can call out to their staff all at once and gather the necessary number of staff without wasting time, and in addition to one-way communication from the hospital side, staff can also send out information on how long it would take for them to arrive on site. In the event of a disaster, the system can also be used for safety confirmation.
This system has been patented (No. 6166114), and its effectiveness has been reported in papers.
--Paper--
Development of a novel information and communication technology system to compensate for a sudden shortage of emergency department physicians
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260081/

In addition, it has been selected as one of the "Chiba City Trial Order Certified Products" in 2020 as an excellent new product (new product and new service) by a small and medium-sized enterprise that is expected to lead to the prevention of the new coronavirus infection, and Chiba City will provide PR and support for the introduction contract.

--Chiba City Trial Order Certified Products in 2020--
https://www.city.chiba.jp/keizainosei/keizai/sangyo/documents/ninteisyouhinichiran.pdf

"Smart ACES" has already been experimentally introduced at national university hospitals and other institutions, and now it will be widely released for general hospitals with improved UI (user interface) and UX (user experience). One of the advantages of this system is that it is a scratch-built system developed mainly by medical institutions, so that functions can be added or changed flexibly if there is a request from medical institutions.

Smart119 Inc. was established by Dr. Takaaki Nakada, a professor specialized in emergency intensive care medicine, at Chiba University which is a national university corporation, based on his desire to introduce new technologies to the field of acute care and save many emergency patients with flexible and creative ideas. Many medical professionals, including doctors, paramedics, and nurses, have come together to contribute to a wide range of medical care in Japan.

◆Introduction results
Kansai Medical University General Medical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shimane University Hospital, Rinku General Medical Center, Chiba University Hospital, etc.

◆"Smart ACES" website
https://smart119.biz/aces/

Today, Smart119 was featured on page 15 of the morning edition of the Nikkei Newspaper.

The title of the article is "Reducing the burden of emergency medical care with IT: Smart119 shares photos during transport."
Please check it out if you like.

◆Nikkei Newspaper
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO67172120Z01C20A2TJ2000