Digital Garage and Resona HD Enhance Medical Payment Platform "CurePort" with Automated Receipt and Billing Data Features
FinTech and marketing firm Digital Garage (TSE Prime: 4819) has announced a significant feature expansion for "CurePort," an online medical payment service co-operated with Resona Holdings (TSE Prime: 8308).
The upgrade deepens the platform's integration with "WebORCA Cloud," a widely adopted medical billing software provided by the ORCA Management Organization of the Japan Medical Association. The expansion introduces an automated "Receipt and Statement Data Return Function" designed to eliminate patient wait times and optimize administrative workflows in healthcare facilities.
Strategic Objectives and Market Expansion
Under the enhanced integration, Digital Garage aims to capture a broader share of the expanding medical payment sector. The platform is targeting both the approximately 4.7 trillion yen insured patient out-of-pocket market, as well as the growing self-pay (non-insured) medical treatment sector.
Through future technical collaborations and an expanded roster of compatible electronic medical records and receipt computers, the company plans to scale its connection coverage to approximately 90,000 medical institutions within the current fiscal year.
Core Functionality and Financial Impact
- Data Integration: For medical institutions using WebORCA Cloud, patients paying via CurePort will now receive digital receipts and detailed medical statements directly within the CurePort dedicated mobile application.
- Operational Efficiency: According to company data, the adoption of CurePort effectively reduces average patient post-consultation checkout wait times from 20 minutes to zero.
- Labor Optimization: Administrative staff checkout processing times are projected to fall from an average of 5 minutes per patient down to zero, offering substantial operational cost savings for healthcare providers.
- Consumer Utility: The digital storage of medical expenses aims to streamline tax-deductible medical expense filing (medical expense deductions) for users.
Norbert Gehrke
