Vital Health is a health-management platform that records the temperature and SpO2 of staff and residents daily at over 1,000 care and welfare sites nationwide, underpinning infection control.
Daily temperature checks, vaccination booking, hospital booking and site infection statistics — a platform meeting all four needs of pandemic-era care work, built in-house from scratch in 10 months. This is the story of that launch.
CareLife Japan Co., Ltd. is one of the countrys leading operators of care and welfare sites, supporting tens of thousands of staff and residents across day services, home care, nursing homes and group homes.
During the pandemic, watching over the health of staff and residents every day became the lifeline of the business. Tallying temperatures on paper and in Excel, and arranging vaccinations and hospital visits by phone and ledger, were crushing the front line. Together with Amela they built, from scratch, a health-management platform that unifies all of it.
None of these were questions of technology choice; they were business requirements tied directly to infection control, staff workload, resident peace of mind and head-office decisions. Building from scratch demanded a design that satisfies all of them at once.
On paper and in Excel tens of thousands/day temperature results are tallied by hand, both the front line and head office carry a heavy load.
If fever and symptoms are shared late, the risk of an in-facility cluster Risk of spread rises.
Arranging vaccination slots and hospital visits by hand means Double bookings and missed bookings easily arise.
1,000+ sites are tallied one by one, head office cannot see the whole organisation at once.
Temperature entry, vaccination booking, hospital booking and facility statistics — all four built in-house from scratch. Staff enter daily from a phone, managers catch fevers by instant alert, and head office gathers infection status from every site via dashboard and CSV: front line, facility and head office all supported on one platform.
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This foundation continuously produces business outcomes — lighter staff workload, faster infection response and quicker head-office decisions — rather than technical metrics.
The daily temperature check completes on a phone, cutting paperwork on the floor.
Fever and anomalies are caught by instant alert, speeding up the first response.
Vaccination and hospital visits are arranged on one platform without confusion.
Infection status across every site can be seen in real time and acted on.