MediTech

The company's founder is a practising gastrointestinal surgeon, and that shows in what MediTech Corp. builds: software meant to ease the pressures he saw in Japanese hospitals, from overlong hours to a thin spread of specialists across regions. Incorporated in March 2018, the firm states a three-part mission: protect the quality of Japanese medicine, bring Japan-quality care to the world, and improve public health globally. A share of profit is set aside for training young clinicians and supporting care in developing countries.

Sending scans to a doctor's phone

Its main product is Drs' HotLine, a medical image sharing program registered as a medical device in Japan. A hospital captures DICOM images, sends them through the app, and they upload to a cloud server and arrive on the phone of the consulting doctor. The site says anyone with an internet connection can use it with simple operation, that it is low in cost, and that facilities of any size can adopt it. Its stated purpose is to let a specialist who is not on site look at the images, which the company links to fewer night-time on-call burdens for doctors.

Uses listed for image sharing

The Drs' HotLine page names eight uses. They include smoother transfers between hospitals, fewer unnecessary transfers, avoiding misdiagnosis, handling conditions outside a facility's specialty, reviewing images away from the hospital, and raising medical quality on remote islands and in depopulated areas. It also pitches the tool to prefectural and municipal governments as a way to narrow regional gaps in care. The product was adopted for the fiscal 2024 Kochi Prefecture healthcare industry demonstration support subsidy.

Surgical teams for Cambodia

The Cambodia Project, described as exporting Japanese medical technology, uses MediTech's earnings to send teams abroad for surgery and treatment while training local doctors. Its stated aim is to raise Cambodia's medical standard and to build trust in Japanese care. In November 2025 the company received an encouragement prize at the 8th Shikoku Alliance Business Plan Contest.

Key facts

Founded: 30 March 2018 Headquarters: 4-34-16 Shibamata, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo 125-0052 Other office: 3175 Ino-cho, Agawa-gun, Kochi 781-2110 (inside KOKUBAN OFFICE) Representative: Kazuhiro Hiyama, physician, representative director Capital: 40,150,000 yen Licences: medical device manufacturing; Class II medical device marketing