Representative Director & President, CEO

Naoki Goto

MedPeer positioned the fiscal year ended September 2024, the 20th year since its founding, as the structural reform period, and in this one year we have made drastic changes to our segment structure. We stipulated two segments as areas to concentrate on, the Doctor Platform and the Medical Institution Support Platform, sold the Preventive Healthcare Platform Segment and Cloud Clinic, and made and executed the decision to withdraw from new segments related to nursing care and pharmacists.
We also reformulated the Medium-Term Management Plan, positioned the next three years until the fiscal year ended September 2027 as the “platform strengthening period,” made concentrated investments in the Doctor Platform and the Medical Institution Support Platform, in particular the former, and clarified our policy of concentrating on the building and strengthening of our platforms, which will be the foundation for realizing long-term segment growth.

I believe that the success of our selection and concentration decision will be evaluated based on our platform growth and segment growth over the next three years, but here I will explain the background to this judgment from a slightly different angle.

The Hedgehog Concept is a concept presented throughout the series of books on Visionary Companies authored by Jim Collins. It is the concept of focusing on the area in which the three circles of (i) What are you deeply passionate about? (ii) What best drives your economic or resource engine? and (iii) What you can be the best in the world at? overlap, and the area in which these three circles overlap for us is truly the Doctor Platform.

Looking at perspective (i), “What are you deeply passionate about?,” our mission of “Supporting Doctors, Helping Patients” is the starting point of the founding of our company and at the same time is an extremely strong mission which has been fully accepted by all of our employees, so it can be concluded that our company is a collective of employees who are passionate about “being useful to doctors.”
Looking at perspective (ii), “What best drives your economic or resource engine?”, the doctors to whom we contribute are the people at the center of a variety of decision-making in healthcare in Japan. Having a platform supported by the doctors leads to the creation of diverse segment opportunities.
Finally, looking at perspective (iii), “What you can be the best in the world at?,” as stated in our vision of “Reinventing Healthcare with Collective Intelligence ,” the doctors’ collective intelligence platform MedPeer has a unique strength different from our competitors in the way that it creates collective intelligence from the platform and turns it into shared knowledge.

In the past we have not always clearly understood that the point at which the three circles overlap is the Doctor Platform. After going through the structural reform period, we clearly understood this as a company, so we executed selection and concentration and stipulated clear segment policies, which has brought us to our current position of ending the structural reform period and moving toward regrowth.

Due to the rapid digital shift generated by the spread of COVID-19 infections and the post-COVID rebound, the inherent growth potential of the market combining healthcare and digital transformation (DX) has become less clear. On the other hand, we believe that the growth of the segment area combining healthcare and DX is essential for building and certain to build the sustainable future of healthcare going forward. We also believe that the new technological innovation of generative AI will expand the possibilities of this market. We will meet the expectations of our stakeholders by achieving segment growth not as one player riding the wave of growth in this market, but as an innovative company that creates the growth of this market itself.

Director and Chairman

Yo Iwami

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our shareholders and investors for your ongoing support.
Since our establishment in December 2004, we have developed our business in accordance with our mission of “Supporting Doctors, Helping Patients.” In August 2007, we launched MedPeer, a doctors-only membership community, and today approximately half of the doctors in Japan have registered with MedPeer. The community amasses the experience and knowledge of individual doctors into a nationwide network—a “collective medical intelligence.” We operate this community in the aim of enhancing the quality of healthcare throughout Japan.

On June 27, 2014, we listed our shares on the Mothers Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (now the Growth Market), and currently we are listed on the TSE Prime Market.
As presented in the Medium-Term Management Plan, in order to promote the enhancement of corporate value from the “platform strengthening period” ending 2027 until the subsequent “development segment expansion period,” we intend to carry out selection and concentration of the segments and restructuring of the organizational system, etc., and to further accelerate the growth of the MedPeer Group overall, including our two consolidated subsidiaries. We decided to embark on our 21st fiscal year with a new management system in order to achieve this accelerated growth. Going forward, I, the founder of the company and a doctor, as the Director and Chairman, will contribute to long-term enhancement of the value of the MedPeer Group by (i) further inculcating MedPeer’s Mission and building the organizational culture, (ii) strengthening engagement with doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and all of our other stakeholders, (iii) further strengthening the management foundation of the MedPeer Group by taking up the positions of chair of the Board of Directors and group company director, and (iv) playing a role in the creation of exploratory new segments.

Even now that the COVID-19 issue has been brought under control, the roles of doctors and medical professionals are only becoming even more important. As we accurately grasp this market background, all of our employees will work as hard as they can to promote our segments as members of a company that truly contributes to the healthcare of the people by combining “online, the real world, and medical care.” As we take on these challenges, I ask for your ongoing support of the MedPeer Group.