Konica Minolta announces the completed acquisition of Garner, North Carolina based Viztek, through Konica Minolta Medical Imaging. With this acquisition, Konica Minolta enhances its capabilities to offer comprehensive, end-to-end healthcare IT solutions from image acquisition to physician diagnosis. It also adds to the established strength and foothold of Konica Minolta in Primary Imaging and enhances their healthcare IT software solutions to better meet today’s market need for image sharing and viewing.
Konica Minolta is a $9 billion global company with a rapidly growing presence in the global healthcare market. Konica Minolta Medical Imaging has an established strength in Primary Imaging – Digital Radiography, Ultrasound, Healthcare IT and Services. Primary Imaging accounts for up to 70 percent of all images acquired, and is relied upon for initial diagnosis and to assess the need for advanced imaging. With today’s focus on value-based care, healthcare needs Primary Imaging Solutions to provide economic value, clinical confidence and worry free operation.
“The acquisition of Viztek will strengthen our healthcare IT solutions and broaden our Primary Imaging Solutions portfolio so that in turn we can enable our customers across all market segments to better meet the evolving healthcare requirements for Meaningful Use and value-based care,” says David Widmann, President and CEO, Konica Minolta Medical Imaging. “As we aim to significantly grow our business, we can now be further assured that we are responding to customers’ needs with healthcare solutions offered and supported by a single company.”
Viztek is a provider of digital software and hardware imaging solutions. The company’s innovation and foresight to leapfrog traditional healthcare technologies has propelled Vizteks’ leadership in healthcare IT. Most recently Viztek introduced its Exa platform for PACS, RIS and EHR systems, offering unprecedented access to images and information for radiologists and physicians, regardless of location, to support care delivery. Additionally the company has seen record sales for Digital Radiography in 2015, with new advancements in wireless technology along with dose efficient software for pediatrics.
“With the established footprint of Konica Minolta, Viztek can now rapidly expand by providing our Exa platform and our comprehensive range of proven digital imaging software to a much greater install base, including – for the first time – sites outside the U.S.A.,” says Josip Cermin, President, Viztek. “At Viztek our development has been nimble and our products truly innovative, and now a much larger segment of healthcare will have access to our current and future developments.”
As part of the acquisition, 20/20 Imaging, the partner company of Viztek will also become an autonomous subsidiary of Konica Minolta.
