Wellness

What Wellness does

Wellness Co., Ltd. (株式会社ウェルネス) is a Tokyo-based private company founded in January 1991 that builds and maintains Japan's largest-scale medical and nursing care facility database, branded as WDB. The database covers approximately 546,148 facilities across seven categories — hospitals (7,975), clinics (92,834), dental clinics (66,283), pharmacies (62,184), health examination facilities (52,448), animal hospitals (9,097), and nursing care service offices/facilities (246,327) — and is refreshed monthly through checks of roughly 550,000 records. QLife, a third-party partner, reports that WDB covers over 90% of Japan's domestic medical institutions. The company was founded by Dr. Junichi Hirakawa with a stated mission of helping patients select appropriate medical institutions; current leadership is President Junichi Kashiwabara.

The business monetizes WDB through subscription-based database licensing (standard and customized datasets, delivered via online storage or CD-ROM), marketing services, medical coordination ICT services (including dementia and regional care linkage systems), a free public "Hospital Itsudoko Map" search platform (~550,000 facilities), and the WRDB linked-data suite (DPC, bed/outpatient function reports, medical corporation financials, cancer hub data, advanced medical treatment data). Distribution is hybrid: direct sales to enterprises, government agencies, medical institutions, and research organizations, plus an alliance partner channel for reselling and joint service development. The company runs three wholly-owned subsidiaries — Wellness Medical Information Center (consumer health services, spun off 2016), Wellness Medical Information System (database development, 2019), and Wellness Neo (medical-institution services, 2019) — and maintains academic partnerships with International University of Health and Welfare and the University of Tokyo, as well as a government partnership for MyNa Portal linkage and sales-agent roles with Nikkei HR. Wellness is privately held, with ¥98 million registered capital and 11–50 employees; it has never raised disclosed funding rounds or pursued a public listing.

Name

Wellness

Legal name

株式会社ウェルネス

Website

https://wellness.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wellness Co., Ltd. (株式会社ウェルネス) is a Tokyo-based private company founded in 1991 that builds and maintains Japan's largest medical and nursing care facility database (WDB), covering ~546,000 facilities, serving government agencies, enterprises, healthcare institutions, and research organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Information Databases

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Access, Sharing & Marketplace Platforms (incl. TEFCA/QHIN enablement) (HLACAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics (BPAIAJAM), Digital Health, Health Information Systems & Data Programs (BPADAIAJ)

Keywords

• Medical facility databases
• Healthcare information services
• Nursing care databases
• Medical facility master data
• Regional medical planning data

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Database Licensing and Data Sales: Wellness licenses its WDB medical and nursing care facility databases to enterprises, government agencies, research institutions, and medical institutions. The databases are sold as standard master data and customized datasets with various delivery methods including internet/online storage and CD-ROM.
2. Database-derived Services: Marketing services, medical coordination ICT services, and medical PR support services built upon the core WDB database infrastructure. These include analysis tools, visualization systems, and coordination platforms.
3. Publishing and Guidebooks: Publishing of guidebooks on nursing insurance facilities, hospital guides, health examination facility guides, and other medical/welfare related publications.
4. Alliance Partner Revenue Sharing: Revenue generated through alliance partners who distribute, resell, or develop new services using WDB databases, including joint development and content creation partnerships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Wellness builds, maintains, and licenses Japan's largest-scale medical and nursing care facility database (WDB) covering approximately 546,000 facilities across hospitals, clinics, dental clinics, pharmacies, nursing care services/facilities, health checkup facilities, and animal hospitals. The company sells database licenses, derived analytics and ICT services, consumer-facing facility search platforms, and publishable medical regional planning datasets to enterprises, government agencies, medical institutions, research organizations, and internet/media companies.

Product overview

Wellness operates as a database and information services company that has built and maintains Japan's largest medical and nursing care facility database (WDB) since its founding in 1991. The core WDB product encompasses 7 major facility categories — hospitals (7,975), clinics (92,834), dental clinics (66,283), pharmacies (62,184), nursing care facilities/services (246,327), health checkup facilities (52,448), and animal hospitals (9,097) — totaling approximately 550,000 registered facilities updated monthly. This database powers a portfolio of interconnected products and services: the WDB itself serves as the master data platform for the 2次医療圏データベースシステム (secondary medical area database, also known as 巧見さん), which provides free downloadable statistical data for all of Japan's secondary medical areas and city-level versions for regional comprehensive care analysis; the 病院いつどこマップ (Hospital When/Where Map) consumer-facing platform enables geographic search of all facilities; the ウェルネス先進医療サーチ targets advanced medical technology searches; and the WRDB suite provides linked administrative data products (DPC data, bed function reports, outpatient function reports, medical corporation financials, cancer hub data). Subsidiary Wellness Medical Information Center (ウェルネス医療情報センター) operates consumer-facing services including health consultations, human dock/medical examination reservation, and the Wellness Friendly Club benefit program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WDB（ウェルネスデータベース）: 国内最大級の医療・介護データベース（病院・診療所・歯科診療所・薬局・健診施設・介護サービス事業所・介護施設）
• 病院いつどこマップ
• 先進医療サーチ
• 淮南ナビ
• 2次医療圏データベースシステム（巧見さん）

Products and services

• Medical and Nursing Database (WDB) Proprietary database covering hospitals, clinics, dental clinics, pharmacies, nursing care service offices/facilities, health checkup facilities, and animal hospitals nationwide, maintained as a standard master with monthly updates. The foundational data platform underpinning all of Wellness's services and solutions.
• 2nd Medical Area Database System (Takumi-kun) Secondary medical area database system jointly developed with Professor Takahashi of the International University of Health and Welfare. Provides bed numbers, nursing care facility capacity, workforce statistics, and population projections for all of Japan's secondary medical areas. Available in Pro and Basic editions, with cumulative downloads exceeding 780,000 as of 2022.
• Nursing Database

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers over 90% of domestic medical institutions in Japan
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Nikkei HR (株式会社日経HR)flagshipGTM or Marketing Partner · 26 June 2022Partnership as sales agent for Nikkei Medical Career (日経メディシップ), providing medical personnel placement services. Wellness became the first registered sales agent for this medical recruitment platform.
• Japanese Government (Municipality Systems)coreOthers · 30 July 2021Provision of municipality examination facility database forマイナポータル (MyNa Portal) linkage, supporting government's digital health record initiative. Wellness provides standardized facility identification data for municipality health examination systems nationwide.
• Wellness Medical Information Systems (株式会社ウェルネス医療情報システム)coreOthers · 1 April 2019100% subsidiary focused on development and operation of medical and nursing care databases and related service planning and development.
• Wellness Neo (株式会社ウェルネス・ネオ)coreOthers · 1 April 2019100% subsidiary focused on planning, development, sales, and operation of medical institution services.
• Wellness Medical Information Center (株式会社ウェルネス医療情報センター)coreOthers · 1 April 2016Spin-off company handling individual consumer health services including health consultations, PET/health examination reservation services, and corporate health examination support. Founded through corporate split-off from Wellness.
• Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo (東京大学医学部)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Joint development of National Regional Bed Function Information Database with Tokyo University Public Policy Graduate School HPU. Collaborative research on medical policy and AI application in healthcare data processing.
• International University of Health and Welfare (国際医療福祉大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010Joint development of 2nd Medical Area Database System with Professor Takahashi Yasu of International University of Health and Welfare. This partnership has produced Japan's most widely used regional medical planning database, with 780,000+ cumulative downloads since 2011.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• JMDC: JMDC is Japan's leading health insurance claims database and analytics company, serving payers, pharma, and academia with healthcare data infrastructure. Highly comparable to Wellness as a Japanese healthcare data platform, though focused on claims/utilization data rather than facility master data.
• Medical Data Vision (MDV): Medical Data Vision provides DPC (Diagnosis Procedure Combination) and medical receipt data analytics to pharma, insurers, and academia in Japan. Operates the same kind of Japanese healthcare data infrastructure for enterprise customers as Wellness, with overlap in WRDB suite offerings like DPC hospital data.
• Definitive Healthcare: Definitive Healthcare is a US-based healthcare commercial intelligence company providing detailed data on hospitals, physicians, and healthcare facilities. The closest international analog to Wellness's facility master data business model.
• Intage Inc. Intage is Japan's largest marketing research and data analytics company with a dedicated healthcare practice providing market intelligence to pharma, medical devices, and consumer health companies. Comparable as a Japanese data-services company serving healthcare enterprises with curated intelligence.

Broad incumbents

• M3, Inc. M3 operates one of Japan's largest healthcare professional and information platforms (m3.com), with adjacent physician/facility data assets and a much broader portfolio including career, marketing, and clinical services. A larger incumbent that could expand into Wellness's facility data niche.
• Medipal Holdings: Medipal is Japan's largest pharmaceutical wholesaler with adjacent healthcare data and distribution intelligence businesses. While not a direct competitor in facility data, it serves overlapping pharma/insurer customers with related healthcare market intelligence.
• Recruit Holdings: Recruit operates Japan's largest job-search and consumer platforms with healthcare recruitment (Nikkei HR/Medical Career partnership with Wellness Neo) and broader healthcare data exposure. A diversified incumbent with tangential involvement in healthcare facility intelligence through partnerships.

Regional players

• EM Systems: EM Systems provides medical IT systems (electronic medical records, receipt computers) primarily to clinics in Japan, accumulating healthcare data assets along the way. Operates in adjacent digital-health infrastructure space with potential overlap in facility-data products.

Emerging players

• Health Catalyst: Health Catalyst is a US healthcare data and analytics platform serving hospital systems and payers with data warehousing, analytics, and outcomes improvement. Comparable in being a healthcare-focused data infrastructure company, though focused on clinical/operational analytics rather than facility master data.

Others

• QLife, Inc. QLife is a Japanese healthcare information services company operating the QLife hospital search portal, which uses Wellness WDB as its foundational data. Functions as both a customer and a complementary player in consumer-facing healthcare facility information services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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