A study on the Introduction of IT-Welfare Convergence Services

Abstract

Present welfare system is segmented, decoupled, inefficient, analogue, and insufficient for the safety welfare such as danger of dying alone in the ageing society. Construction of welfare infrastructure by using IT technology and related on- and offline combination welfare service system is required. Constitution of an independent “(tentatively named) Future Health and Welfare IT Fusion Support Center,” which would integrate, control and link various social welfare services and which would function as a total professional control-tower is suggested. With the industrialization of ICT in order to meet the changes in the welfare environment in an ageing society and the diversification of welfare needs, present social welfare service delivery system would be changed into user-oriented one.