Portraits ofAkira Yokouchi

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After graduating from the School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Insititute of Technology in 2012, Akira Yokouchi joined NRI in the same year.
He has been engaged in both institutional and factual research concerning home healthcare, nursing care coordination, and online medical care; providing support related to public affairs, including drug pricing, vaccines, and access to medicines; enhancing productivity by promoting digital transformation (DX) and business process reengineering (BPR) in the fields of medical care, nursing, childcare, and welfare; and analyzing public Personal Health Record (PHR) data concerning nursing care prevention and lifestyle-related disease prevention. He has also supported the social implementation of digital health solutions and has been engaged in a wide range of healthcare-related research and studies, new business/system planning, and strategy development. Most recently, he has been providing consulting services on healthcare broadly, encompassing child-rearing and welfare.

Specialized field

  • Research on social security policy, focusing on medical and nursing care
  • Analysis of big data on health, emphasizing nursing care and prevention, as well as lifestyle-related disease prevention
  • Promotion of DX and BPR in health, medical care, nursing care, and welfare (including childcare)
  • Support for new business planning and strategy formulation using digital health solutions

Major project results

  • Planning support for new services for policyholders using digital health (Life insurance company)
  • Pilot project on health management using smartphones and smartwatches (Prefectural government)
  • Market access support for specific vaccines and their nationwide distribution (Pharmaceutical companies, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • Research project on promoting home healthcare and nursing care coordination (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • DX model project for child policy (Children and Families Agency)

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