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Business Results
Healthcare
Business
X-ray diagnostic imaging systems
• Despite difficult business conditions in and outside of Japan, unit sales of
cassette-type DR (digital radiography) devices increased.
• Konica Minolta launched the AeroDR PREMIUM, which features better
durability and a lighter weight.
Medical IT services
• As a new component of our medical IT service platform, informity, Konica
Minolta launched the Home Medicare Cloud to support the sharing of data
among home care providers.
• Konica Minolta has entered the imaging CRO (contract research organization)
business with clinical test support services through its informity platform.
Diagnostic ultrasound systems
• The market has lauded the SONIMAGE HS1 for its top-level* resolving power
in a hand-carried form.
• With the sales setup in order, sales picked up towards the end of the fiscal year.
* When compared to general hand-carried diagnostic ultrasound systems
Revenue Main Achievements in Fiscal 2014
Market environment (opportunities
and challenges)
• There is growing demand in the medical care
sector for solutions that assist in administering
medical exams and improve operational
efficiency.
• In the domestic market, there is a growing
move towards regional collaboration and
home-based care to curb overall healthcare
costs.
• In the international market, demand is on the rise
in ASEAN countries and other emerging nations.
• There is currently a high dependency on the
domestic market, and strategies for
expanding overseas business are needed.
Strengths and strategies
• Konica Minolta possesses advanced medical imaging-related
technologies and knowledge cultivated through the development of
X-ray diagnostic imaging systems.
• We possess superior technologies in the field of ultrasound probes/
sensors, which determine the competitiveness of the diagnostic
ultrasound systems that use them.
• We provide equipment maintenance services in Japan 24 hours a day,
365 days a year.
• We will strengthen our solutions-based businesses by utilizing our
domestic customer base, with a focus on medical clinics.
• We will ramp up overseas business by leveraging the strategic global
sales partnership with the healthcare division of GE.
(Billions of yen)
120
90
60
30
0
78.578.5
100.0
82.3
Revenue
(FY)
2013 2014 2016
(plan*)
J-GAAP IFRS
• Fiscal 2014 business results and fiscal 2015 forecast
In the Healthcare Business, although sales were strong in the U.S.,
China, India, and other overseas markets, conditions remained
poor in Japan, with local procurement sales declining as a result of
a cooling market. Compared with the previous year, worldwide
sales of core Konica Minolta products increased. Looking at
individual products in the X-ray diagnostic imaging systems
segment, the AeroDR cassette-type digital X-ray system saw
expanded unit sales as a result of greater demand for digital
products among medical care providers. We also released the
SONIMAGE HS1, a new product developed by Konica Minolta for
the diagnostic ultrasound system product range that we are
working to develop as a new segment. The product has been well
received for its superior resolving power, and we saw sales expand
towards the end of the period. Film products sold well in emerging
AeroDR unit sales Diagnostic ultrasound
system unit sales
* Base index: FY2013=100* Base index: FY2013=100
(FY)
2013 2015
(plan)
2014
193
100 118
(FY)
2013 2015
(plan)
2014
299
100 106
* Figures published in May, 2014
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