For the Benefit of Patients
Basic Concept
The Olympus Group has continued to focus on the patient care pathway (prevention to recovery) in order to fulfil our corporate philosophy of “Making people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling.” With a focus on the patient's care pathway, we develop solutions to enhance the care pathway through a comprehensive understanding and management of the disease and seek ways to optimize steps and improve the quality of life of patients.
Initiatives
Initiatives to Improve Patient Care Pathways (Case Study of Gastric Cancer and Colorectal Cancer in Japan)
We aim to improve the quality of life (QOL) for patients by comprehensively enhancing the care pathway.
Efforts to provide information on ‘Prevention’, ‘Screening’, ‘Diagnosis’, and ‘Treatment’ in the care pathway include the operation of a website providing information under the supervision of doctors (see Fig. 1 below), the provision of materials through a cancer control agreement with local authorities to encourage cancer screening (see Fig. 2 below), next-generation education support, and awareness-raising activities in collaboration with NPOs (see Fig. 3 below).
Furthermore, as part of our commitment to ‘Screening (early detection)’, ‘Diagnosis’, and ‘Treatment’’, we provide medical institutions with endoscopic systems, technologies to support endoscopic diagnosis, and a variety of surgical instruments that enable minimally invasive procedures to reduce the burden on patients (see Fig. 4 below)
In addition, to ensure that necessary examinations can be carried out smoothly, we will continue to provide information on the maintenance of our products and equipment on our website for healthcare professionals (see Fig. 5 below).