Healthcare Enters an Era of “Thinking with AI and Circulating Knowledge”

Medical AI and hospital AI PMO company, MedTech Group Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Kiyotaka Maeda; hereinafter "MedTech G"), has launched "AI Hippo," an AI platform equipped with a new AI function called "Medical Loop," designed to support decision-making in clinical settings.

[Image: Medical AI Platform "AI Hippo Medical Loop" - https://www.aihippo.ai]

Background: Structural Challenges in Healthcare Currently, the following issues are becoming increasingly serious in medical settings: • "Personalization" of care, where decisions depend heavily on individual doctors. • "Non-integration of knowledge," where guidelines, case studies, and internal hospital insights are fragmented. • "Loneliness in decision-making" during night shifts and emergency responses. • Chronic increases in the burden on medical staff and the loss of time for reflection.

Conventional medical AI has focused on "diagnostic support" or "operational efficiency," but these alone have not led to the resolution of fundamental issues in the field.

Solution: The New Concept of "Medical Loop" "Medical Loop" is an AI function designed as a cycle (Loop) that "accumulates, structures, and reuses" all information generated during clinical practice.

Key Features ■ Clinical Guide Loop Provides highly reliable medical information based on the content and context of the consultation. It supports the decision-making of medical professionals and improves the quality and speed of care.

Clinical Log Loop (SOAP Integration) Automatically generates medical records (SOAP) and nursing notes from voice input, structuring the clinical content. It creates summaries based on accumulated data to support continuous care and information sharing.

Chat Hippo (In-house AI Advisor) Acts as a partner for medical staff, allowing them to consult on questions regarding clinical practice or operations at any time. It operates in a secure in-house environment, and data is not used for external training.

Drive Loop (Medical Knowledge Circulation Infrastructure) A knowledge base that accumulates and shares insights generated within the hospital, feeding them back into future clinical practice. It supports the improvement of medical quality and organizational learning.

Concept: Human in the Loop The core philosophy of this product is "Human in the Loop (Human-centered AI)."

Instead of AI replacing diagnosis, it functions as a "Staff AI" that: ■ Expands the thinking of medical professionals ■ Enhances the quality and speed of judgment

Expected Benefits - Development of an environment that supports the decision-making of medical professionals - Standardization and advancement of the quality of care - Support for the education and training of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff - Sharing and reuse of knowledge through the accumulation of clinical and nursing data - Turning medical data into assets and utilizing them for management

Future Developments With Medical Loop at its core, AI Hippo will proceed with: ■ Building an AI infrastructure that supports the entire hospital's clinical and operational activities ■ Accumulation, visualization, and analysis of data through integration with a Medical Data Infrastructure (IDX) We will expand this as a "management foundation that evolves healthcare through data and AI."

Message Healthcare has historically been supported by "experience" and "individual judgment." Within this, there exists irreplaceable value in the insights, intuition, and on-site sensibilities cultivated by veteran doctors and nurses over many years of clinical practice.

By recording and structuring these elements and making them referenceable when needed, AI Hippo realizes a foundation that allows experience to circulate within the organization and continue to be utilized for the next generation of medical care.

We are transitioning to a new era of decision-making through: ■ Medical Professionals × AI × Data

Conclusion What AI Hippo proposes is:

× Not healthcare left to AI ○ Healthcare that thinks together with AI

Healthcare is moving from "leaving it to AI" to "thinking with AI."

―― The new common sense of "Medical Loop" begins now.