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Healthcare Innovation

Volume 64 Number 10 January 2016

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For all that technical innovations are driving advances in medicine, the problems of healthcare are becoming more diverse, posing challenges at a global level. This issue of Hitachi Review describes care cycle innovations that involve advanced technology and collaborative creation with customers, medical innovations that draw on Hitachi's extensive experience with information technology (IT) and social infrastructure, and the fundamental and advanced technologies that underpin this work.

From the Editor

From the Editor
Nobuyuki Osakabe

Technotalk

Providing Everyone with Better Healthcare through Practical Innovations
Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A. / Masaya Watanabe / Harry Reddy, MS, MEng., MBA, Ph.D. (cont.)

Overview

Healthcare Innovation: Industry Challenges Being Addressed by Global One Hitachi
Harry Reddy, MS, MEng., MBA, Ph.D. (cont.) / Tomoyoshi Takeo

Featured Articles

Care Cycle Innovation

Diagnostic Ultrasound System for Care Cycle Innovation
Kinji Kuriyama / Kazufumi Tanaka / Naohiro Yoshida / Hiroaki Wakabayashi / Shinji Nishino
Improving Laboratory Reliability through Visualization of Medical Testing Process
Masaharu Nishida / Kiyotaka Umino / Kumiko Kamihara / Tomonori Mimura
Open MRI for Neurosurgery
Yukihiro Yasugi / Kazunori Waragayu
Particle Therapy that is Easy on Patients
Hiroshi Akiyama, Ph.D. / Kenta Mochizuki / Masumi Umezawa

Medical Innovation

Innovative Disease Prevention Support Involving Collaborative Creation with Customers
Hideyuki Ban, Dr. Eng. / Yasutaka Hasegawa / Toshinori Miyoshi, Dr. Info. / Takanobu Osaki / Kouichiro Fujioka / Toru Nakagawa, M.D., Ph.D. / Shouji Negishi
Hospital Management Solutions Implemented in Partnership
Koji Hirata, Ph.D. / Kazuaki Mukai / Asuka Kihana / Yuta Miyakawa / Hiromitsu Negishi
Plant Solutions for Next Generation Biopharmaceuticals and Regenerative Medicine
Haruo Suzuki / Yukio Fukushima / Tadatoshi Iwabuchi / Yoshinori Momota

Fundamental and Advanced Technologies

The Innovation Game
“How to Better Find It, Embrace It and Transform It into Explosive Growth”
William A. Burns
Dealing with Brain Disease
Atsushi Maki, Ph.D. / Hisaaki Ochi, Ph.D. / Masashi Kiguchi, Ph.D.
Wider Adoption of Regenerative Medicine Driven by Open Innovation
Kohin Shu, Ph.D., Engineering / Masaharu Kiyama / Takayuki Nozaki, Ph.D., Medical Science / Ayako Nishimura / Daisuke Suzuki, Ph.D., Engineering / Midori Kato, Ph.D., Science / Yumiko Igarashi / Shizu Takeda, Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences
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