Japanese & Danish Research Network on Telehealth/Telerehabilitation and Welfare Technologies
IMASEN Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Aichi, Japan) visited us at Aalborg University as well as the Municipality of Aalborg.
Our mission: to help pre-frail seniors maintaining physical autonomy using the aLQ exoskeleton.
A research project headed by Sport Sciences – Performance and Technology research group in collaboration with IMASEN. This project is an example of how the JD TeleTech brings collaborators from Denmark and Japan together.
Yesterday, the Center for Welfare Technology had a visit from Japan, where the company RT Works presented a new walker with a motor, so that the elderly can get help with difficult walking.
There were also researchers from AIST – the national research institution for robots at the meeting.
Subsequently, the group visited AAU SUND at the Welfare Technology Laboratory, where we discussed cooperation on the development of a new model for evaluating welfare technologies in Japan and Denmark. We see the need for this in both countries, and will cooperate on this in the future.
Wednesday the Elderly Housing Unit of Tokyo Metropolitan Government had a visit to the Lundbeck Center, Aalborg Municipality, Center for Welfare Technologies, Aalborg and Laboratory for Welfare Technology – Digital Health & Rehabilitation, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University.
The aim of the visit was to learn about elderly care and use of new technologies for future elderly care. The visit was part of the JD TeleTech network.
Come and participate on August 29-30 at the international conference on “Digital Health Beyond Covid-19: Lessons Learned” at Aalborg University (AAU) in Copenhagen.
The final program is now complete and available here.
You can register for the conference here no later than August 8.
There will be more than 40 exciting presentations from over 10 different countries. The conference is organized by the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN), International Society of Telemedicine & eHealth and AAU. Thanks to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for supporting the conference.
We hope to see you at the conference.
We are honored that Ms. Masako Wakamiya from Japan today visited Laboratory for Welfare Technology – Digital Health & Rehabilitation, Aalborg University.
Ms Wakamiya is 87 years old and started getting IT knowledge/skills in the late 50s and has become IT evangelist. She is known as the oldest application developer in the world, and because of it, she was invited to WWDC by Tim Cook, CEO, Apple in 2017. When Tim Cook visited Japan, she met him upon his request. Furthermore, she had a talk show with Audrey Tang, IT Minister of Taiwan last year. She has a broad network also in Japan and been respected by the staff of Digital Agency and other IT related agencies/sections in Japan.
Ms. Wakamiya is in Denmark this week exploring how elderly persons use digital services in Denmark and how we deal with digital inclusion in practice. We had a fruitful discussion.
Ms Wakamiya also had a visit at Lundbygades Nursing home in Aalborg Municipality today.
Today Laboratory for Welfare Technology – Digital Health & Rehabilitation, AAU and JD TeleTech had visitors: Anne-Marie Thoft, Invest in Denmark; Masaki Teraoka, the Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo and Akihiro Sakurai, KMD (DNP), Yusuke Matsuura, DNP; Mika Yasuoka-Jensen, RUC; Mao Uchida Japannordic and team.
We discussed the new digitalization strategi in Denmark within digital health and research collaboration possibilities within digital health between Denmark and Japan.
So nice to be able to meet in persons again.
Follow this link for further information on program, invitation & call for abstract and posters, grants for younger researchers and more…
Invitation to webinar:
Time: December 16, 2021 at 10.00 am – 11.30 am (CET) / 18.00 – 19.30 (JST).
The aim of the webinar is to facilitate cooperation between Japan and Denmark within Digital Health.
See the program here. It is free to participate.
The webinar is organized in collaboration between Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Invest in Denmark, Danish Embassy Deloitte, Japan and JD TeleTech Network.
Thursday September 9, 2021 professor Birthe Dinesen gave an online lecture on the Danish Healthcare system and telehealth in Denmark for Master students and Phd students at Sct Lukes International Hospital in Tokyo.
The students had also prepared a lectures on the Japanese Healthcare system. It was a very fruitful session with good discussions.
Information in Japanese is available here.
Wednesday, October 14th at 18:00 JST (Japan) / 11:00 CET (Denmark)
It is hard to see or predict the end of coronavirus problem. Under these circumstances, the society pay more attention to Telemedicine and Tele-rehabilitation. This webinar focuses on the new initiatives/technologies that accelerate Telemedicine and make people continue Tele-rehabilitation with a joy. Also be touched upon the Japanese companies’ challenges in the Era of post-corona. In addition, we would like to introduce what JD Teletech has done so far.
Listening to the new ideas or difficulties from many of the participants (as many as possible), we hope this webinar could be an opportunity of investigating other new initiatives in the Era of Post-Corona.
Please register here – You will receive a link to the webinar after your registration.
For more details, incl. program and registration link, see PDF in English and in Japanese.
JD TeleTech was established in April 2019. Since then, JD TeleTech has organized roundtables and workshops in Japan as well as in Denmark. JD TeleTech is going to continue these activities in both countries.