New healthcare society supported by wearable sensors and information mapping-based services

Collecting and analyzing various personal biological and environmental sensing data is important for various medical services, for example, lifestyle self-check support, personalized medical support and medical studies for the public purpose. We aim to deploy in 5 to 10 years and are studying on a physiological and environmental information processing platform based on wearable sensors, for services to countermeasure to metabolic syndrome, and such lifestyle-related disease. In this paper, firstly we identify issues of daily healthcare support system. Then, we present the initiative of our research, which is composed by a unified health-related information processing platform, new wearable sensors for lifestyle-related information collection, and flexible application architecture for development of new kind of healthcare services that offer merits to both patients and service providers (physicians, health-related institutions, and public organizations).