OPTiM buys MediTech to add medical image sharing to its hospital AI

OPTiM buys MediTech to add medical image sharing to its hospital AI

2 November 2026: OPTiM, the Tokyo-listed AI and IoT software company (TSE Prime 3694), bought MediTech on 2 November and made it a subsidiary. MediTech makes Drs'HotLine, a service doctors use to send medical images to colleagues at other hospitals. OPTiM calls it its first acquisition in medicine and did not state a price.

Not yet independently verified. OPTiM did not disclose the price or the share of MediTech it bought, and we found no copy of the release on MediTech's own site. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

What Drs'HotLine does

MediTech, founded on 30 March 2018 and based in Katsushika, Tokyo, describes Drs'HotLine as an image sharing system designed by doctors, which works wherever there is an internet connection and needs no dedicated equipment. Hospitals use it to send scans ahead of a patient transfer, to ask a specialist elsewhere for an opinion, and to cut the risk of a misdiagnosis. Its security features, as OPTiM lists them, are two-step login, automatic removal of personal data from image metadata, and a design that never downloads the image to the receiving phone. MediTech's representative is Kazuhiro Hiyama.

One phone for ward chat and image transfer

OPTiM plans to sell the service with the OPTiM AI Hospital Suite, the hospital package it began offering on 30 September. The suite joins a generative AI service linked to electronic medical records, document and manual management, and security management for PCs, phones and user IDs. Its staff phone service, OPTiM AI Hospital Phone, due in January 2027, puts ward chat, workflows, secure photo and audio capture and AI help with reports on one handset.

Run on a phone the suite manages through its mobile device management, Drs'HotLine would let a doctor message the ward and send scans to another hospital from the same device. OPTiM also plans to build AI diagnostic support on top of the image sharing, and to sell Drs'HotLine through its national partner network while offering its own services to MediTech's hospital customers.

The policy deadline behind the deal

OPTiM points to the Japanese government's medical DX roadmap, which aims for almost every medical institution to use electronic medical records, and a system for sharing clinical information between them, by 2030 at the latest. Image sharing between hospitals is one of the pieces that roadmap needs. OPTiM, whose registered head office is in Saga City, says it will work with Saga Prefecture and other local governments and their core regional hospitals on emergency transfers and remote image reading.

Our catalogue lists five products in medical imaging software. OPTiM's own largest shareholders, as its release lists them, are founder and chief executive Shunji Sugaya, NTT East and Fujifilm Holdings.

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Sources

• OPTiM (via PR TIMES): オプティム、医療領域で初のM&A 医用画像共有サービス「Drs'HotLine®」を提供するMediTech株式会社を子会社化, 2 November 2026
• OPTiM: OPTiM AI Hospital Suite launch release, 30 September 2026
• Drs'HotLine (read 2026-11-02), 2 November 2026