NTT docomo business and MEDLEY will support the “Online medical treatment model project at remote clinics, etc.” launched by Yamagata Prefecture in fiscal year 2025.

This year, a model project will be implemented in Tozawa Village in the Mogami region, which was severely damaged by the heavy rain disaster last July, to connect clinics and insurance pharmacies with welfare facilities designated as evacuation shelters online to provide medical treatment and medication guidance.

Assuming that a situation occurs in which it becomes difficult for doctors and pharmacists to travel between facilities during a disaster, online medical treatment by doctors and online medication guidance by pharmacists will be conducted in a training format at welfare facilities.

Yamagata Prefecture is experiencing population decline and aging, and there is a need to establish a system that allows people to receive high-quality medical care no matter where they live in the prefecture.

In particular, in remote clinics where there is a shortage of doctors, the burden of securing and dispatching doctors, the burden of transportation access for patients, and disaster response are major issues.

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