Research
For over a decade we have collected, organised and translated the language used in clinical settings.
Commissioned research with Tokyo Medical and Dental University (now Institute of Science Tokyo)
- Phase 1
- 28 October 2014 to 31 May 2015
Research on how Japanese is used about medicines in nurses' daily work, as a basis for multilingual translation - Phase 2
- December 2015 to March 2019
Continuation and expansion of Phase 1
What we studied (Phase 1)
- Conversations between nurses, pharmacists and patients in hospital
- Medical terms used in hospital
- Conversations and terms used in the hospital pharmacy
- Explanations of the terms collected
- Points to observe for foreign patients and different religions
- Points to observe for people with hearing or speech impairments
Patents
- No. 6565032
- Dialogue support system, dialogue support method and program (registered 9 August 2019)
- No. 6601603
- Medical data management system (registered 18 October 2019)
Activities
2016 — Exhibited at HOSPEX Japan 2016
14 July 2015 — Presented at a work-life balance seminar in Ikebukuro
At a seminar on home working for small businesses held by the Tokyo Labor Consultation Center, we presented how we introduced home and mobile working using thin-client systems and a VPN. The panel noted the security of devices that keep no data and of connections protected from interception, and how quickly we put the system in place.
9 May 2015 — Symposium at the 54th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
At the symposium "Multilingual translation systems in medicine: current state and outlook" (Nagoya Congress Center), we presented the results of our multilingual translation system for pharmacies.
16–18 July 2014 — Exhibited at the International Modern Hospital Show 2014
At Tokyo Big Sight we showed our "Smart Medical Interpreting System", designed to remove language problems for foreign patients visiting hospitals.
