Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Smartmedical Corp., which plans and develops Portal Care Clinics (PCC) has signed an "agreement of outsourcing radiology equipment" with Siemens Healthcare, a Japanese subsidiary of Siemens Healthineers, a leading authority in medical scanning technology, in order to develop medical scanning centers at community primary care hubs.
Smartmedical Corp. has developed PCC as community medical hub for both community residents and commuters, around railway and metro stations mainly in metropolitan Tokyo area. PCC is a new concept of the outpatient clinic as a community medical hub. It functions as a primary care clinic for preventive medicine and general outpatient care, portal-care clinic as a branch of local-core hospitals in cooperation with university hospitals, and poly-clinics which are able to treat patients using multiple physicians with doctor rotation system.
"This collaboration is significant for preventive medicine," said Nozumu Shibasaki, CEO of Smartmedical. "Japan is rapidly becoming a world-first full-fledged aged society. In order to achieve active and healthy aging, prevention and early detection of disease is essential. By collaborating with Siemens Healthineers, we will establish medical scanning centers at PCC with their outstanding medical imaging technology, which enables patients to have hospital quality check-ups and treatment at their community medical hub."
"This is our first Managed Equipment Services partnership with a clinic," said Hideaki Mori, President of Siemens Healthcare. "As the importance of prevention and early detection of the disease increases in a mature society, it is inevitable for us to develop partnerships with community primary care hubs. As a PCC developer, Smartmedical will be our best partner to establish the platform of preventive medicine and primary care to solve multiple medical problems in Japan. We believe this collaboration model is efficient for any country and area."
They are also planning for remote 24-hour medical scanning services by radiologists utilizing Siemens Healthcare's latest scanning technology and Smartmedical's ICT knowledge and experience.
