Balancing quality and convenience.Shaping the future of AI anddigital care, from the frontline.
We are a private-sector association harnessing digital technology and AI Transformation (AX) to accelerate the responsible adoption of online medical care. Through standards that reflect the pace of clinical practice and data-driven policy advocacy, we build a sustainable healthcare infrastructure that patients, clinicians, and society can truly trust.
- DX
- Digital Transformation
- AX
- AI Transformation
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- Core Initiatives
About the Association
Balancing medical quality and convenience to build a trustworthy foundation for digital care in society.
Online and digital medical care hold great potential to expand access to healthcare beyond geographic and temporal constraints. Yet amid this rapid adoption, some inappropriate practices that fail to adequately ensure medical quality and safety have emerged, posing a risk of eroding the trust of both patients and clinicians.
Rather than waiting for regulatory frameworks to be designed by the government, our association establishes private-sector standards that balance medical quality and convenience, grounded in the pace and real-world conditions of clinical practice. We aim to correct inappropriate practices and build a sustainable healthcare infrastructure that patients, clinicians, and society can mutually trust.
Two Pillars
Establishing and disseminating frontline-driven standards for digital care
Grounded in the realities and pace of clinical practice, we formulate private-sector standards that balance safety and convenience. By codifying frontline-proven best practices into standards and disseminating them across the industry, we steadily broaden the reach of safe digital healthcare.
Evidence-based policy advocacy grounded in real frontline data
Building on empirical evidence drawn from clinical practice, we advance strategic and constructive policy proposals. With quantitative grounds, we engage relevant ministries, local governments, and partner organizations to advance sustainable systems for both patients and clinicians.
Founding Members
Leading experts across medicine, digital health, policy, and technology uphold the principles of the association.
Yuma Mori
Mori Yuma
Representative Director / Physician
Representative Director, MEDU (General Incorporated Association)
A physician driving the digitization of medical education and preventive medicine. Through efforts to deliver accurate medical knowledge to the general public, he focuses on closing the gap between technology and traditional clinical practice, advancing the social implementation of evidence-based preventive care and building standards that raise the trustworthiness of digital care from a frontline perspective.
Focus
Medical education & preventive medicine digitization
Hiroaki Kato
Kato Hiroaki
Physician / Digital Health Expert
Physician
A physician widely recognized as a pioneer of Medical DX and digital health policy in Japan. With extensive experience in industry-academia-government collaboration and regulatory sandbox frameworks, he has supported the social implementation of new medical technologies on the institutional side, bridging clinical, research, and policy domains to lead framework-building for the responsible adoption of digital care.
Focus
Medical DX & digital health policy
Akiyuki Sato
Sato Akiyuki
CMdO (Chief Medical Officer) / Family Physician & General Internist
CMdO, TENET Inc. (Former Chief of General Internal Medicine, Kameda Medical Center; Former Deputy Director, Kameda Clinic)
A physician who fuses rigorous evidence-based medicine with corporate digital health strategy, grounded in proven clinical expertise cultivated as a family physician and general internist. With a deep understanding of clinical realities, he pursues implementation designs that enhance convenience without compromising safety, contributing to the requirements that make standards work on the ground.
Focus
Clinical excellence × digital health strategy
Ryo Ueda
Ueda Ryo
CEO & CTO
CEO & CTO, Wrusty Inc.
A software architect and tech entrepreneur specializing in healthcare IT infrastructure. With deep expertise in robust healthcare systems, medical AI implementation, and data security, and a track record of building the technical foundations that support large-scale medical operations, he translates standards into implementable technical specifications.
Focus
Healthcare IT infrastructure, medical AI, data security
Junichi Mitsui
Mitsui Junichi
Public Relations Advisor
Mitsui Pharmacy LLC / M-Square Inc. (Tohoku University startup)
An entrepreneur advancing the mission of "a society with zero medical withdrawal," delivering online medical care and online medication guidance to medically underserved regions. By installing trailer houses in areas facing healthcare-access challenges—such as regions of medical withdrawal and urbanization-control zones—he builds mechanisms that bring care to where it is needed. With a background at an advertising agency and expertise in online advertising and PR, he supports the spread of digital care and the association’s public relations.
Focus
Public relations & PR × regional healthcare access
Our Activities
From standardization and dissemination to certification and policy advocacy — we advance six initiatives as one.
Formulating & updating guidelines
We formulate guidelines for the appropriate operation of online medical care from a private-sector, frontline perspective, and update them continuously as technology and regulations evolve.
Disseminating guidelines
We broadly communicate the guidelines to medical institutions and providers, supporting their implementation and adoption through training, materials, and seminars.
Monitoring & certification programs
We build and operate mechanisms to monitor guideline compliance, along with third-party certification programs that ensure appropriate operation.
Public outreach
We conduct awareness and outreach activities for patients, companies, municipalities, and other stakeholders to promote correct understanding and appropriate use of online medical care.
Advancing data standardization
We promote the standardization of clinical data to improve interoperability, contributing to the foundational infrastructure for safe and efficient digital healthcare.
Policy advocacy & lobbying
With quantitative grounds based on real frontline data, we conduct policy advocacy and lobbying toward relevant ministries, local governments, and partner organizations.
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[Important Notice] Membership applications coming soon
The Japan Digital Medical Association is currently preparing to begin formal membership applications (regular, supporting, and special members, etc.). Details on membership categories, fee schedules, and participation benefits will be announced on this website as soon as they are finalized. For preliminary inquiries or partnership proposals, please feel free to reach out via the contact form below.
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