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Toshiba Solutions Corporation
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
From planning and consultation through to application
and maintenance, Toshiba Solutions Corporation aims to
provide diverse businesses and industries with “solutions
services” using our know-how in IT, and in doing so to
deliver solutions for our customers’ management issues.
In FY2011 there was a delay in the recovery of IT
investment, both in Japan and overseas, and the difficult
business environment persisted, leading to lower sales.
However, we returned higher income due to structural
improvements, such as measures to reduce  xed costs.
We continue to focus on building cloud-based services.
In May 2011 we launched a “power use visualization cloud
service” that collects real time data on power consumption.
In August of the same year, Toshiba Group was selected
as a contractor to work on China’s first smart community
verification project, which is being implemented by The
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO), one of Japan’s independent
administrative agencies.
In December 2012 Toshiba Group was again selected
for a NEDO, administered project this time as a contractor
for the “Smart Community Verification Project in the
Redevelopment Zone of Lyon, France.” The project proposal
that we submitted was given great credit for its
reasonableness.
Looking toward tomorrow, we aim to accelerate our
development overseas and establish a new business
platform by focusing on the cloud business, an area where
strong market growth is anticipated.
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation provides healthcare
solutions, including CT, MRI, ultrasound and X-ray diagnostic
imaging systems and medical IT systems. We hold the top
market share in Japan and are expanding globally.
In FY2011 we saw increased sales but lower operating
income as the result of falling sales prices and exchange
rate di erences due to yen appreciation.
In June 2011 we acquired Vital Images, Inc. of the
United States, a company that excels in diagnostic imaging
analysis and the image visualization software business. This
move has further strengthened our medical imaging
solutions business in the global market. In addition to this,
we set up an “academic center” at Toshiba Medical Systems
(China) Co., Ltd. in Beijing, where we have established a
system to provide services such as training programs for
customers in China and the wider Asian region.
In product development, we have developed the
highly advanced image processing technologies, that
contribute to reduction of radiation exposure, for use in CT
and X-ray angiography and applied them to our products.
“ADIR 3D” image reconstruction algorithm allows examiners
to cut radiation dose during CT scanning by up to 75%, and
we applied it to our entire line-up of multi-slice CT’s.
Making full use of our globalized research and
development organizations based in Japan, the United
States and Europe, we will move forward by continuing to
provide high quality, reliable medical systems and
appropriate services. We have also commercialized
“Healthcare@Cloud,” our healthcare cloud service, which
features remote storage of medical images. Building on
this, we will continue to provide our customers with safe
and reliable new solutions.
Aquilion™ / CXL Edition Multi-slice CT integrating low-dose radiography AIDR 3D that
uses successive approximation image reconstruction technology
Overseas, we established Toshiba Elevator India in
April 2011, as a means to strengthen our business in the
world’s second largest market after China. In October of the
same year we won the contract for 19 elevators to be
installed in “One Avighna Park”, a 65 floor skyscraper in
Mumbai, including eight high speed elevators. In order to
expand business in the Persian Gulf Arab States, we
established Toshiba Elevator Middle East in October 2011
in Dubai. The company will further strengthen the
marketing structure for luxury models, particularly for high
speed elevators and standard models. Through cooperation
in manufacturing technology and with maintenance
networks that we have already constructed in China and
Southeast Asia, we aim to actively expand the business into
the global market.
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