Digital Health & Rehabilitation – Present and future collaboration between Denmark & Japan

Supported by the Royal Danish Embassy, Tokyo

Time: April 25, 2023 from 2.00pm to 4.30pm Japanese time / 07.00 – 09.30 Danish time

Place: Online (Zoom) and at Juntendo University, Bldg. 7, 13F, Ariyama Memorial Hall

The Japanese – Danish Research Network on Telehealth/Telerehabilitation and Welfare Technologies (JD TeleTech) is delighted to invite you to our upcoming seminar on: “Digital Health & Rehabilitation – Present and future collaboration between Denmark & Japan.”

As digital health and rehabilitation continue rapidly evolve, we believe that collaboration between countries is essential to driving research, innovation and improving patient outcomes. This seminar will explore the current state of digital health and rehabilitation in Denmark and Japan, present examples of current research collaboration as highlight opportunities for future collaboration. We are pleased to announce that expert speakers from both Denmark and Japan will attend and share their insights.

The target group for this seminar are researchers and healthcare professionals within digital health and rehabilitation, representatives from companies as well as Master or PhD students.

Download the full program here

It is free to participate in the event.

Registration

Please register at this link before Monday April 17, 2023 the latest.

We hope that you’ll be able to join us for this informative and engaging event.

Best Regards,

Dr. Hiroyuki Daida, Dean & Professor
Graduate School of Health Science,
Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Email: daida@juntendo.ac.jp

&

Dr. Birthe Dinesen, Professor & Head of Laboratory for Welfare Technology – Digital Health & Rehabilitation, Sport Science – Performance and Technology,
Department of Health Science and Technology,
Aalborg University, Denmark
Email: bid@hst.aau.dk

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.

Aims of conference

• To present and share experiences on research on implementation of the newest digital health technologies and services in the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic
• To identify, communicate and compare lessons learned on digital health beyond COVID-19
• To identify knowledge gaps and challenges for further research within digital health beyond the pandemic
• To identify potential opportunities for exchange of knowledge and research collaboration in the field of digital health
• To provide younger researchers within digital health the opportunity to present their work to a broad range of international scholars and colleagues

Follow this link for further information on program, invitation & call for abstract and posters, grants for younger researchers and more…

Invitation to webinar:

New Horizons for Digital Health & Future Technologies

How can Japanese and Asian companies and researchers benefit from the Nordic frontrunners

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.

Registration at this link.

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.