Meierhofer

What Meierhofer does

Meierhofer AG is a privately held, owner-managed German healthcare IT vendor founded in 1989 and headquartered in Aschheim near Munich, with wholly-owned subsidiaries in Austria (Meierhofer Österreich GmbH) and Switzerland (Meierhofer Schweiz AG), and a medical-technology subsidiary (Meierhofer Medizintechnik GmbH). The company develops and operates the M-KIS hospital information system (Krankenhausinformationssystem) and a suite of departmental modules covering operating room management (M-OP), emergency department (M-Notaufnahme), intensive care and anesthesia (M-PDMS), billing (M-KIS Abrechnung, positioned as an alternative to SAP IS-H), as well as the next-generation M-KIS Next platform and the rapid-implementation M-KIS Now standard. Underlying technology is a .NET/C# and MSSQL stack on Azure DevOps Server, with WPF and Vue.js/Xamarin frontends and a service-oriented architecture that separates presentation and business logic.

Meierhofer sells primarily to hospitals, specialty clinics (Fachkliniken), and rehabilitation facilities across the DACH region, serving roughly 250 customers from eight office locations. Revenue is generated through software licensing, consulting and implementation services, managed services, the Meierhofer Akademie training offering, and recurring technical support, with pricing negotiated individually per facility and module. Distribution is direct and enterprise-led: since 2025 the company has been organized into five central Customer Success Teams (CST) bundling sales, project management, support, and operations, supported by heavy field engagement and participation in DMEA and IFAS trade shows. Notable recent commercial wins include a 2026 multi-facility M-KIS Abrechnung deployment with Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg.

The company pursues a "solid, healthy growth" strategy under founder-CEO Matthias Meierhofer, emphasizing long-term customer partnership, regulatory alignment with German KHZG/ePA/Telematikinfrastruktur, Austrian Spital 2030, and Swiss eHealth frameworks, and an emerging focus on AI in the hospital. It is recognized as a Kununu Top Company 2025 and has signed the German Diversity Charter.

Name

Meierhofer

Legal name

Meierhofer AG

Website

https://meierhofer.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Meierhofer AG is a privately held, owner-managed German healthcare IT vendor founded in 1989 that develops and operates the M-KIS hospital information system and departmental modules for hospitals, specialty clinics, and rehabilitation facilities in the DACH region, serving roughly 250 customers from eight offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Liebefeld

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing: Sale and licensing of hospital information system M-KIS and specialized modules including M-OP, M-Notaufnahme, M-PDMS for patient data management. Licensed to hospitals, specialty clinics, and healthcare facilities.
2. Consulting and Implementation: Process consulting and software implementation services for digital transformation projects in hospitals, including project management, configuration, and go-live support.
3. Managed Services: Targeted support and relief for hospital IT departments with predictable costs and manageable resources, including system monitoring and maintenance.
4. Meierhofer Akademie: Training services to help users quickly and easily learn digitalization, including onboarding, ongoing education, and certification programs.
5. Support Services: Technical support including 2nd-level support, customizer services, and integration specialists. On-call duty systems provide around-the-clock support for customers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Meierhofer develops and licenses M-KIS, a hospital information system (Krankenhausinformationssystem) that digitizes medical, nursing, and administrative processes for hospitals, specialty clinics, and rehabilitation facilities. The core platform is complemented by specialized modules — M-OP (operating room management), M-Notaufnahme (emergency department), M-PDMS (intensive care, anesthesia, and stroke unit), and M-KIS Abrechnung (billing) — and reinforced by services covering consulting, implementation, managed IT support, and the Meierhofer Akademie training program. The product suite is sold and supported across the DACH region through direct enterprise sales and Customer Success Teams.

Product overview

Meierhofer offers a unified platform-plus-modules product architecture centered on M-KIS, its hospital information system. M-KIS serves as the core platform for clinical, nursing, and administrative processes, complemented by specialized modules including M-OP (operating room management), M-Notaufnahme (emergency department), M-PDMS (patient data management for intensive care, anesthesia, and Stroke Unit), M-KIS Abrechnung (billing), M-KIS Next (next-generation modernization), and M-KIS Now (rapid implementation). The product suite follows an interoperable, process-oriented approach designed to integrate with existing hospital IT infrastructure. Meierhofer also provides services including consulting and implementation, managed services, an internal academy for user training, and technical support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• M-KIS: Hospital information system (Krankenhausinformationssystem) developed by Meierhofer for clinical, administrative, and nursing workflows.
• M-OP
• M-Notaufnahme
• M-PDMS
• Meierhofer Akademie

Products and services

• M-KIS Hospital Information System Core hospital information system (Krankenhausinformationssystem) serving as the central platform for clinical, nursing, and administrative workflows in hospitals, specialty clinics, and rehabilitation facilities across the DACH region.
• M-OP Operating Room Management Specialized surgical theater management solution covering the full perioperative process from pre-operative planning through intra-operative documentation to post-op follow-up, sold to hospital OR departments.
• M-Notaufnahme Emergency Department Dedicated emergency department solution for efficient patient intake, triage, and emergency care documentation, targeted at hospital emergency departments.
• M-PDMS Patient Data Management System Patient data management system from Meierhofer Medizintechnik GmbH providing targeted support for intensive care units, anesthesia, and Stroke Unit workflows.
• M-KIS Abrechnung (Billing) Billing module for patient accounting and claims management, positioned and sold as an alternative to SAP IS-H for hospital patient management and invoicing.
• M-KIS Next Next-generation modernization of the M-KIS platform using web-based technology and a service-oriented architecture that separates frontend and backend, designed to make the hospital information system future-ready.
• M-KIS Now Standardized, accelerated M-KIS implementation package enabling rapid onboarding of new hospital customers into digital workflows.
• Consulting und Implementierung (Consulting & Implementation) Advisory and implementation services accompanying hospital IT projects from planning through go-live, delivered by Meierhofer's PCA (Projectmanagement, Consulting & Accountmanagement) teams.
• Managed Services Targeted IT support and resource relief for hospital IT departments with predictable costs and manageable resources, including system monitoring and maintenance services.
• Meierhofer Akademie Training and continuing education service that helps hospital users quickly learn to use Meierhofer's digitalization tools, including onboarding, ongoing education, and certification programs.
• Technical Support Services Technical support services including 2nd-level support, customizer services, and integration specialists, with around-the-clock on-call duty systems for hospital customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• M-KIS Abrechnung implementation at Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg covering 7 facilities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Agfa HealthCare: Agfa HealthCare delivers enterprise imaging and broader hospital IT (including ORTHERO PACS and integrated clinical platforms) to hospitals across Europe, overlapping with Meierhofer in the broader enterprise clinical-IT buying centre even though Agfa's center of gravity is radiology/imaging.
• CompuGroup Medical: CompuGroup Medical (CGM) is a major publicly listed German healthcare-IT vendor offering hospital information systems (including under the IS-H lineage) alongside a much broader eHealth portfolio (ambulatory, pharmacy, lab), making it an overlapping incumbent rather than a niche competitor to Meierhofer.
• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Oracle Health is the global enterprise EHR/HIS incumbent (rooted in Cerner Millennium) competing for large hospital and university hospital contracts worldwide, including in Germany and Austria, and serves as a benchmark end-to-end HIS alternative for Meierhofer's enterprise prospects.
• Epic Systems: Epic Systems is the leading global hospital EHR vendor (EpicCare), routinely winning large DACH university-hospital procurements and competing for the same enterprise HIS replacement deals that Meierhofer targets with M-KIS Next.
• SAP (SAP IS-H): SAP's SAP IS-H patient management and billing solution is the explicit incumbent Meierhofer positions M-KIS Abrechnung against, making SAP a strategic enterprise rival for hospital billing and patient administration contracts across Germany.

Direct peers

• Dedalus: Italy-headquartered Dedalus is the largest dedicated hospital information system (HIS) vendor in Europe and the most direct head-to-head competitor to Meierhofer's M-KIS across the DACH region, sharing the same enterprise hospital customer base and EHR-platform-plus-modules go-to-market.
• NEXUS AG: NEXUS AG is a German vendor specializing in hospital and radiology IT solutions (e.g., NEXUS / HIS, NEXUS / RIS) with a comparable DACH-focused, mid-sized positioning to Meierhofer, competing for the same integrated-KIS deals at hospitals and specialty clinics.
• i-SOLUTIONS Health: i-SOLUTIONS Health is a German hospital information system vendor whose core product suite targets the same KIS/HIS buyer persona and clinical/administrative workflows as Meierhofer's M-KIS, making it one of the closest direct mid-market peers in the DACH hospital IT segment.

Others

• ID Information & Dokumentation (ID): ID Information & Dokumentation is a German vendor of clinical documentation and electronic medical record solutions (e.g., ID MEDICS) used by hospitals and physicians; it is adjacent rather than directly competitive to Meierhofer but addresses overlapping clinical-IT buying centres in German hospitals.

Regional players

• ChipSoft: ChipSoft is a Netherlands-based specialist vendor of HiX, a hospital information system covering clinical, nursing, and administrative workflows comparable to M-KIS, with strong Dutch/Belgian hospital penetration but essentially no DACH overlap to date.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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