In line with the aging population, Home Doctor was established to help provide medical service for the elderly and disabled who have difficulty using medical services. AVING News met Home Doctor to find out about the platform it is currently developing.

Q. Please introduce your company briefly.

A. Home Doctors aims to improve patient’saccess to medical care by constructing a visiting medical platform, and gainsustainability of visiting medical care by constructing an efficient visitingprocess for doctors and other medical personnel.

Furthermore, by continuously collectingdata of actual patients, we would like to become the foundation forpersonalized medical care. We plan to provide evidence-based medical servicesby collecting various data such as economy, housing, and environment as well aspatient medical data through actual visiting medical services.

Q. What is the competitiveness of Home Doctor's visiting medical platform?

A. We can solve unmet medical care for thevulnerable by providing direct visits. Also, by varying the visit cycleaccording to the multiphasic evaluation result of the patients, we can support“aging in place.”

Also, visiting medical treatment with lowrent, interior cost, and equipment investment allows business owners to stablyenter the market when using the platform. The elderly have complex healthproblems, so professional medical personnel can share a pool of patients.

We should also pay attention to thecombination of analog healthcare and digital healthcare. Because doctors makethe visits directly, there are only few legal restrictions on the applicationof ICT technology. Through in-person visits, you can collect full and detailedinformation, and by combining it with ICT technology, you can create a hybridhealthcare that combines analog and digital.

Q. What are your plans for the future?

A. We would like to expand the pool ofvisiting medical patients. We would like to expand the patient pool byorganically linking with related organizations in the local community to laythe groundwork for sustainable visiting medical care.

Up to now, we are getting about one requestfrom one home visit welfare center. If we actively make network and increasethe number of cooperating home visit welfare centers, we can form a patientpool of 100 persons by 2021, which is how many one doctor can handle.

We are also going to implement the visitingmedical system. Visiting medical service will be expanded to service areas suchas rehabilitation, exercise, nutrition, and oral hygiene, starting with visitsby doctors and nurses which have compensation.

We are planning to build an effectivevisiting medical system by organically integrating various visiting medicalservices, and expand these systems to areas other than Suwon, the city we havestarted the service.

In addition, by establishing a visitingmedical platform that can connect the visiting medical system built by regions,we will organically connect the visiting medical institutions in the country toconnect the visiting medical service and patients quickly and easilynationwide. We will support various activities such as continuous patientmonitoring, patient food delivery, wearable device and digital therapeuticdevelopment using the visiting medical platform.