Nursing Care Cloud Computing Solution towards Construction of Integrated Community Care System

The population in Japan is aging at an alarming rate. According to the Annual Report on the Aging Society 2014 by the Cabinet Office of Japan, 31.9 million people were aged 65 or older as of October 2013, while the number of people in this age bracket is estimated to reach as high as 38.78 million in 2042. Given this situation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare aspires to establish an integrated community care system designed to allow elderly citizens to stay in the communities they are attached to and lead dignified, independent lives. An array of laws are in development, such as the Act for Securing Comprehensive Medical and Long-term Care in the Community that was passed in June 2014. The integrated community care system must address the increasing need for maintaining the quality of nursing care against the background of the growing elderly population requiring care at home. At the same time, it needs to establish a system to enhance efficiency in service provision and information-sharing among key players such as physicians and nursing care providers. This paper describes the efforts at Fujitsu to develop an integrated community care system that is built upon a Fujitsu's solution to assist care providers in their service provision and management.