Eliminate "Too-Late Leave of Absence" from Japanese Companies with Pre-Symptomatic Audit "Obaka Sommelier"
HIL Co., Ltd. introduces "Obaka Sommelier," a pre-symptomatic health audit utilizing patented ultrasound technology, to visualize internal body conditions in just 5 minutes. This aims to prevent talent loss in Japanese companies by encouraging employees to take proactive health actions before conditions become severe.
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Life habit ultrasound assessment "Obaka Sommelier®"
Our company supports "April Dream," a PR TIMES project aiming to make April 1st a day to announce dreams. This press release is the dream of "HIL Co., Ltd."
What if we could notice changes in our bodies a little earlier? What if we could know about future risks while still healthy? Surely, many people's choices would change.
HIL Co., Ltd. (Head office: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Representative Director: Mika Oguma) aims to achieve a dream: to eliminate the health loss of individuals that would have been lost due to "invisible pre-symptomatic conditions" and the talent loss of companies. Through "Obaka Sommelier®" (hereinafter, Obaka Sommelier), a pre-symptomatic audit that uses patented echo assessment technology to visualize the inside of the body in just 5 minutes, we provide "a reason to act" to all working people.
## Pre-symptomatic conditions progress invisibly
"Pre-symptomatic conditions" are states before one becomes ill. Many of these silently progress without subjective symptoms, reaching an irreversible stage before one notices. This is not just an individual problem. The decline in productivity due to working while feeling unwell causes significant economic losses to companies. It is a reality that companies' valuable human resources and profits are being eroded simply because they "didn't notice."
## What we want to see is "real feeling," not "numbers"
HIL Co., Ltd. provides an experience through Obaka Sommelier where people can see the internal state of their body "on the spot." When people visually witness the real state of fat and muscles inside their abdomen as an "image," rather than just health check-up numbers written on paper, they truly and intensely understand their health condition "as their own matter" for the first time. And at that moment, their actions change.
Visualizing lifestyle habits to the individual on the spot
Impact becomes the switch for behavioral change
## Not emotional, but data proves "84.6%"
Our company supports "April Dream," a PR TIMES project aiming to make April 1st a day to announce dreams. This press release is the dream of "HIL Co., Ltd."
What if we could notice changes in our bodies a little earlier? What if we could know about future risks while still healthy? Surely, many people's choices would change.
HIL Co., Ltd. (Head office: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Representative Director: Mika Oguma) aims to achieve a dream: to eliminate the health loss of individuals that would have been lost due to "invisible pre-symptomatic conditions" and the talent loss of companies. Through "Obaka Sommelier®" (hereinafter, Obaka Sommelier), a pre-symptomatic audit that uses patented echo assessment technology to visualize the inside of the body in just 5 minutes, we provide "a reason to act" to all working people.
## Pre-symptomatic conditions progress invisibly
"Pre-symptomatic conditions" are states before one becomes ill. Many of these silently progress without subjective symptoms, reaching an irreversible stage before one notices. This is not just an individual problem. The decline in productivity due to working while feeling unwell causes significant economic losses to companies. It is a reality that companies' valuable human resources and profits are being eroded simply because they "didn't notice."
## What we want to see is "real feeling," not "numbers"
HIL Co., Ltd. provides an experience through Obaka Sommelier where people can see the internal state of their body "on the spot." When people visually witness the real state of fat and muscles inside their abdomen as an "image," rather than just health check-up numbers written on paper, they truly and intensely understand their health condition "as their own matter" for the first time. And at that moment, their actions change.
Visualizing lifestyle habits to the individual on the spot
Impact becomes the switch for behavioral change
## Not emotional, but data proves "84.6%"