Since its founding in 2005, ALMA Medical Imaging has grown to become a global player in the healthcare software sector, with more than 5,000 active licences in over 400 hospitals in more than 20 countries, including Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico. This expansion in Latin America is not accidental, but rather a strategic response to various converging forces in the region.
According to Grand View Research, the medical imaging market in Latin America reached approximately £2.91 billion in 2024, with a forecast to grow to £3.84 billion by 2030.
At the same time, the region suffers from a chronic shortage of radiologists, especially outside large urban centres, which is driving the adoption of teleradiology solutions to improve access and speed up diagnosis.
ALMA has maintained a focus on offering comprehensive solutions that comply with international standards. Through products such as Alma WORKSTATION, Alma HEALTH PLATFORM and AI TOOLS, the company enables the visualisation, management and post-processing of medical images in a real clinical context, combining security, interoperability and scalability to offer a comprehensive integrated solution.
The ability to offer our DICOM Viewers at a competitive price, coupled with the added value of providing access to Artificial Intelligence tools, means that our value goes beyond simply selling a medical device. We offer the added value of meeting both medical and IT needs.
These contributions to diagnosis through automatic measurements, lesion detection, workflow management, AI orchestration, etc. are improving the value chain in diagnostic imaging, achieving greater effectiveness (reducing the margin of clinical error) and efficiency given the improvement in productivity.
Apart from the advantages for medical devices, it is important to mention the benefits for the ecosystem as a whole of implementing ALMA Medical Imaging solutions and technologies. These include:
- More equitable access to quality diagnostics, even in rural areas.
- Improved clinical productivity by facilitating the incorporation of coordinated algorithms in different areas.
- Contribution to the sophistication of the ecosystem: ALMA works with more than 60 local partners and facilitates implementation, training and direct technical support in collaboration with them.
In a growing market, with healthcare systems in urgent need of innovation and lacking human resources, ALMA’s offering is perfectly aligned with the needs of Latin America: reliable technology, adapted to the local regulatory environment, scalable and open to joint development with hospitals and medical institutes.
