MI-ZAThe Next Chapter of Healthcare OkinawaOn-site & Online · All JapanJP|EN

Services

Our services

Our core work is management and operations support for healthcare providers. We also support healthcare companies and help clients use data to improve management and day-to-day work. We work on-site and online, anywhere in Japan.

01 · Clinic Management

Management and operations for healthcare providers

We help home-based medical care clinics attract patients, see their finances clearly, handle billing and claim returns, and run their organization. Working in three areas (planning, organizational development and marketing), we support the decisions of the clinic director and the team, using AI where it helps.

FeesQuoted after an initial consultationContract termSix months or one year
A meeting at a clinic

Challenges

Does this sound familiar?

Nothing moves without the clinic director

When a problem comes up during home visits, staff wait for the clinic director to return because they cannot decide on their own. The director's phone receives more than 30 messages a day.

Busy, yet no profit left over

Patient numbers are growing, yet the money left at the end of the month keeps shrinking. No one can say right away what share of revenue goes to staff costs.

Nurses and office staff leaving one after another

When one person leaves, the load on those who stay grows, fatigue spreads, and another person leaves. Hiring cannot keep up, and everyone starts to wonder who will go next.

Add-on payments you should be receiving, but aren't

No one is tracking changes to the national fee schedule. The clinic met the requirements for an add-on without noticing, and lost several months of claims.

Three Axes

Three areas of support

Planning

Planning: moving the business forward

We sort out the rules, the numbers and the options, so the clinic director can decide with solid grounds.

  • Fee schedule revisions: Each time Japan revises its medical fee schedule, we lay out what has changed and how it affects daily work. We list what to check for notifications, billing, facility standards and website disclosure requirements, and advise on how to proceed.
  • AI for claims and billing data: We analyze claims data with AI to check objectively for missed claims and whether requirements are met. Presented as a data-based assessment, the results give the clinic director clear grounds to share with the team.
  • Support for management decisions: Break-even analysis, revenue and cost per patient, and other analysis, so the clinic director can decide with solid grounds.
  • Advice on applications, notifications and dealing with authorities: We advise on whether applications and notifications to public health centers and regional health bureaus are needed and how to prepare them. We also advise on preparing for and handling on-site inspections and individual guidance sessions.
Organization

Organizational development: getting the organization in order

We work with the clinic director to shape the people, teams and ways of working into the best form for the organization.

  • Support for the clinic director's decisions: "What are other clinics doing?" "Is this the right call?" Through regular consultations, we offer perspectives a clinic director cannot get alone.
  • Training future administrators: Experienced clinic administrators pass on the hands-on work and judgment of the role, which clinic directors often find hard to teach. One-to-one training over 12 sessions in three months. Topics: billing in practice / reading revenue and staff costs / directing and managing staff / sharing information with the clinic director / identifying and solving organizational problems.
  • Physician recruitment and retention: From interview design to follow-up before and after joining, and recruiting materials, we help build a workplace where physicians can work with confidence.
Marketing

Marketing: getting known in the local community

We shape community relations, PR and communications so the clinic stays the local choice.

  • Marketing strategy and execution: We analyze the clinic's strengths, patient mix and how it differs from competitors, build a data-based strategy, and stay with you through execution.
  • Building community partnerships: We help build trusted relationships with hospitals, care management offices, home-visit nursing stations, pharmacies, care facilities and other local partners.

02 · Healthcare Business

Support for healthcare companies

We help companies enter the medical and long-term care fields and launch new businesses, from a position that knows both the regulations and the realities on the ground.

  • Research on the medical and long-term care market, and planning for market entry
  • Setting up a marketing-authorization structure for medical device licenses and notifications (including selecting responsible persons and working with administrative scriveners and other specialists)
  • Organizing product function claims and the evidence behind them
  • Website design and renewal
An online meeting

03 · Data & AI

Better management and operations through data

We use AI as a tool to improve management and daily work, based on Japan's rules for home-based medical care. Many routine steps, such as drafting documents, already run with AI.

  • Automating routine work, such as drafting documents with AI
  • Research reports on the rules and billing of home-based medical care (for organizations)
Reviewing data together

How we work

Planning: careful, on-site and online.
Organizational change: in depth, on-site.

Planning

Planning

Business planning, billing reviews, and data analysis, carried out carefully with a mix of on-site visits and online meetings.

Hands-on

Organizational change

When an organization or its workflows need to change, we visit in person and work closely with the clinic director and staff.

Both are available across Japan, on-site and online.

Process

From first contact to getting started

  1. 01Contact us
    Send us a message through the form. We reply within three business days.
  2. 0230-minute online call
    We listen to where you are and what you are facing.
  3. 03Proposal and quote
    We propose what we will do, how, and the right mix of on-site and online work.
  4. 04Getting started
    Once the contract is signed, we begin.

Policy

How we use AI and handle data

AI is a tool

We use AI for tasks such as drafting documents and tallying data. Decisions and building agreement stay with people.

A person checks every output

Anything AI produces is checked by a person before we hand it over. Final medical judgments belong to the clinic director and physicians.

We answer your data questions individually

From the first consultation, before we receive any data, we answer your questions about how data is handled.

Contact

First, tell us
what you're facing.

In a 30-minute online call, we listen to where things stand and what is getting in the way. You decide afterwards whether to work with us.