From research to real-world use.
Bringing heart disease management into daily life.
CaTe researches and develops heart disease management software as a medical device and related solutions,
aiming to help patients access essential care
in everyday life after discharge.
Exercise therapy, dietary therapy, medication management, remote monitoring, remote coaching and patient education.
With these six core functions, we use technologies such as smartphones and IoT devices
to connect healthcare professionals and patients and build ways to sustain care in everyday life.
Issue
Living with life-threatening heart disease
after discharge.
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in Japan.
Heart failure in particular carries a risk of readmission and worsening health after discharge, making ongoing management important.
Exercise, diet, medication and daily changes in health.
Supporting people with heart disease requires appropriate, ongoing care in life after treatment.
Yet the burden of hospital visits, time constraints, the difficulty of maintaining care at home
and the limited time healthcare professionals can provide day-to-day support
can prevent necessary support from fully reaching patients.
How can we deliver and support the care people with heart disease need in daily life after discharge?
This is the challenge CaTe addresses.
Solution
Toward heart disease management
that fits everyday life.
CaTe's research and development of heart disease management software as a medical device and related solutions
aims to make it easier for patients to engage in necessary care in everyday life after discharge.
Exercise therapy, dietary therapy, medication management, remote monitoring, remote coaching and patient education.
By combining these six functions, we aim to support care at home, day-to-day health monitoring
and communication with healthcare professionals, creating ways to sustain care.
Exercise Therapy
Dietary Therapy
Medication Management
Remote Monitoring
Remote Coaching
Patient Education
Output
The path to real-world use.
CaTe researches and develops software as a medical device and related solutions,
working toward a society where essential care reaches people with heart disease in daily life after discharge.
Step by step, we advance clinical research, clinical trials, regulatory affairs, quality and business development,
aiming to bring these solutions to patients through healthcare institutions.
In the future, we also envisage applying the knowledge and approaches gained in heart disease
to other disease areas.
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01
Exploratory study
(interim analysis)
Completion of specified clinical research
Demonstration of efficacy and safety
in a small patient group -
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Exploratory study
Completion of specified clinical research
Demonstration of efficacy and safety
in patients -
03
Confirmatory clinical trial
Completion of confirmatory clinical trial
Demonstration of efficacy and safety
in a larger patient group -
04
Regulatory approval
and reimbursement listing
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05
Providing a cardiac
rehabilitation app
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Future expansion 06
Application to conditions
where exercise therapy is effective,
such as hypertension
Social Impact
The changes we aim to achieve.
Through real-world use of an exercise therapy support app, CaTe aims to make it easier
for people with heart disease to exercise in daily life after discharge
and for healthcare professionals to provide ongoing support.
Through these efforts, we aim to contribute to better patient outcomes, reduced readmission risk and more appropriate healthcare spending.
We also aim to spread the idea of “Exercise is Medicine” throughout society.
Patients who did not or could not attend outpatient cardiac rehabilitation practice exercise therapy using a cardiac rehabilitation app
Metrics: users / MAU
Healthcare professionals actively prescribe a cardiac rehabilitation app as exercise therapy for people with heart disease
Metrics: app prescriptions / MAU
Healthcare institutions can prescribe outpatient cardiac rehabilitation without facility constraints
Metric: adopting healthcare institutions
Outcomes improve for people with heart disease, and people with other conditions also practice exercise therapy
Metrics: heart failure recurrence / cardiovascular deaths /
emergency visits for heart failure
Exercise therapy support apps help improve prevention of recurrence
Metric: readmission rate
The idea and culture of
“Exercise is Medicine” spread
Exercise therapy support apps
are widely used in society
More appropriate healthcare spending
Contact
Talk to us about R&D, collaborative research or adoption.
CaTe works with healthcare institutions, research organizations and companies
toward real-world use of heart disease management software as a medical device.
For inquiries about R&D, collaborative research or adoption of software as a medical device and related solutions,
please use our contact form.