Medical Community SNS 'Medteria' Forms Business Alliance with O-garden
Medteria Inc., provider of the medical SNS 'Medteria,' has partnered with O-garden Inc., which operates the real-world community 'MEDs.' They aim to create a new network for healthcare professionals by merging the strengths of online and real-world platforms.
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Medteria Inc. (Headquarters: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture; CEO: Katsuyuki Tashiro; hereinafter 'Medteria'), provider of the medical communication cloud 'Medteria' (a medical community SNS), is pleased to announce the conclusion of a business alliance agreement with O-garden Inc. (Headquarters: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture; CEO: Fumitaka Takeshige; hereinafter 'O-garden'), a subsidiary of Oga Holdings Inc.
Through this alliance, we will leverage Medteria's medical community SNS as a foundation to collaborate with 'MEDs,' the real-world community for healthcare professionals developed by O-garden, to drive new value creation by combining the strengths of online and real-world environments.
■ Background of the Business Alliance
As a medical community SNS, Medteria has been building a network and data infrastructure for healthcare professionals across education, clinical practice, and careers. It currently has over 50,000 users, primarily within universities, hospitals, academic societies, research groups, and specialized field communities.
Meanwhile, 'MEDs,' operated by O-garden, functions as a real-world community where healthcare professionals gather and interact, serving many medical professionals and creating a highly engaging environment.
This alliance, starting from Medteria's online platform and linking with the real-world meeting place 'MEDs,' aims to expand contact points among healthcare professionals and build a foundation for continuously accumulating and utilizing relationships, thereby promoting new value creation for the medical community.
■ Alliance Details
Through this alliance, we will leverage the strengths of both companies to promote the following initiatives:
1. Strengthening Collaboration of Healthcare Professional Communities
- Establish a dedicated community for MEDs customers on Medteria.
- Achieve seamless integration of real and online environments through check-in and management functions, in addition to online interaction and information sharing features.
2. Enhancing Value Provided to Members
- Medteria users will be able to use 'MEDs' as a real-world interaction hub.
- Provide an environment for MEDs members to interact and exchange information on Medteria.
- Host joint events to create new opportunities for encounters and learning among healthcare professionals.
3. Joint Development of Marketing Support Business
- Jointly promote marketing support that connects companies and healthcare professionals by leveraging the complementary characteristics of online and offline.
■ Future Outlook
By connecting the real-world community of MEDs centered on Medteria's online network and data infrastructure, this alliance will:
- Create, accumulate, and strengthen the formation of networks and contact points among healthcare professionals.
- Achieve both community scalability and engagement.
- Realize business expansion into diverse areas based on the medical community, such as marketing and regional medical collaboration.
We will promote the construction of a new medical community model by integrating 'online × real.'
Furthermore, as MEDs is currently expanding its real-world locations nationwide, this alliance aims to build a nationwide network of healthcare professionals.
Through this alliance, we will leverage Medteria's medical community SNS as a foundation to collaborate with 'MEDs,' the real-world community for healthcare professionals developed by O-garden, to drive new value creation by combining the strengths of online and real-world environments.
■ Background of the Business Alliance
As a medical community SNS, Medteria has been building a network and data infrastructure for healthcare professionals across education, clinical practice, and careers. It currently has over 50,000 users, primarily within universities, hospitals, academic societies, research groups, and specialized field communities.
Meanwhile, 'MEDs,' operated by O-garden, functions as a real-world community where healthcare professionals gather and interact, serving many medical professionals and creating a highly engaging environment.
This alliance, starting from Medteria's online platform and linking with the real-world meeting place 'MEDs,' aims to expand contact points among healthcare professionals and build a foundation for continuously accumulating and utilizing relationships, thereby promoting new value creation for the medical community.
■ Alliance Details
Through this alliance, we will leverage the strengths of both companies to promote the following initiatives:
1. Strengthening Collaboration of Healthcare Professional Communities
- Establish a dedicated community for MEDs customers on Medteria.
- Achieve seamless integration of real and online environments through check-in and management functions, in addition to online interaction and information sharing features.
2. Enhancing Value Provided to Members
- Medteria users will be able to use 'MEDs' as a real-world interaction hub.
- Provide an environment for MEDs members to interact and exchange information on Medteria.
- Host joint events to create new opportunities for encounters and learning among healthcare professionals.
3. Joint Development of Marketing Support Business
- Jointly promote marketing support that connects companies and healthcare professionals by leveraging the complementary characteristics of online and offline.
■ Future Outlook
By connecting the real-world community of MEDs centered on Medteria's online network and data infrastructure, this alliance will:
- Create, accumulate, and strengthen the formation of networks and contact points among healthcare professionals.
- Achieve both community scalability and engagement.
- Realize business expansion into diverse areas based on the medical community, such as marketing and regional medical collaboration.
We will promote the construction of a new medical community model by integrating 'online × real.'
Furthermore, as MEDs is currently expanding its real-world locations nationwide, this alliance aims to build a nationwide network of healthcare professionals.