Medical & Technologies, Inc. (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Sousuke Hirayama) is pleased to announce the pilot launch of "kotomos (コトモス)", a medical operations support platform that connects fragmented medical information and supports team medical care using smartphones and AI. We will also exhibit at "International Modern Hospital Show 2026", Japan's largest medical IT exhibition, to be held in July 2026. kotomos Service Site https://kotomos-cloud.com/ Background of Development ─ "Staff Shortages" and "Digital Fatigue" in Medical Settings Against the backdrop of the "Work Style Reform for Physicians" that came into effect in April 2024, medical institutions face the increasingly critical challenge of balancing the quality of medical care with the sustainability of operations with limited staff. As recruitment becomes more difficult and recruitment costs through agencies rise, there is a growing need to create operational structures that do not rely solely on increasing personnel. Meanwhile, medical settings often coexist with electronic health records, departmental systems, paper, fax, and internal phone systems (PHS). The proliferation of systems and tools for different purposes has led to an increase in things to learn, search for, and confirm. This results in delays in accessing necessary information, redundant data entry, reliance on individuals for handovers, and interruptions for confirmation. Furthermore, many existing IT solutions are designed for PC-centric office workers, and work environments optimized for essential workers, including healthcare professionals who work while on the move, are not yet fully established. Addressing these structural challenges in medical settings, kotomos has been developed as a new operations support platform utilizing smartphones and AI. It makes everyday communication, information sharing, and task confirmation easier to handle on smartphones, and by combining this with AI-powered search of inter