Macnica (Macnica, headquartered at 1-6-3 Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama; President: Kazumasa Hara, capitalized at 11,194 million yen), a total service and solution provider in semiconductor, network, cyber security, and AI/IoT, announces that it has invested in (JOMDD, headquartered at 2-3-11 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takehiko Uchida), which supports development of cutting-edge medical-related technologies and global deployment. Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development, Inc. (JOMDD; Head office: 2-3-11 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Takehiko Uchida, Board Director), a company that supports the development and global expansion of cutting-edge medical technologies.

In recent years, expectations are rising for digital health as a new industry that will emerge from technological innovations in medical, health, and nursing care. Against the backdrop of the spread of communication infrastructure at the individual level, the development of health equipment and software products that apply digital technology such as ICT to the healthcare field is progressing. It is on the increase.

Macnica is actively engaged in activities to create new businesses targeting markets where technological innovation is occurring and which is expected to further expand in the future. As part of this effort, we are working on business development in the digital health field, and in November 2018, we invested in Save Medical, a startup company specializing in digital health development. With this investment in JOMDD, we plan to accelerate Macnica 's expansion in this area.

JOMDD is a start-up company founded by a doctor in 2012, and has been involved in the commercialization of medical seeds, with some products already on the market or exited, and has knowledge of cutting-edge medical devices. Big data, AI, IoT, etc. are highly compatible with Macnica 's technology, and there is potential for synergy with digital health products in the portfolio developed by JOMDD.

Going forward, Macnica hopes to combine its knowledge of the world's most cutting-edge technologies and global network assets with JOMDD's knowledge of cutting-edge medical equipment and network with medical institutions to support companies that develop equipment and software that apply digital technology to healthcare fields such as medicine, health, and nursing care, thereby promoting innovation in the digital health field.

*Save Medical, which Macnica invested in in November 2018, is a development subsidiary of JOMDD.
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