FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2021/12/14

French CME Provider ERON Santé Becomes Part of VIDAL Group~ Becoming a Leading Provider of Online Continuing Medical Education ~M3, Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Itaru Tanimura; URL:
https://corporate.m3.com/; “M3” below) has announced its European subsidiary VIDALGroup’s the acquisition of ERON Santé SAS (Headquarters: Paris, France; URL:
https://eronsante.com/ ; “ERON Santé,” below), which provides continuous professional
development programs for healthcare professionals, with more than 10,000 physicians andcaregivers trained to date and a catalog of more than 50 online medical and paramedical
training courses in France. ERON’s panel covers over 70% of physicians practicing in France.
M3 operates m3.com, a specialized web portal for medical professionals that delivers
healthcare related information to its 300,000+ physician members in Japan, and offers
marketing and clinical trial services. Presence outside of Japan includes the U.S., U.K.,
France, and Asia, with aggressive business expansion overseas that has amassed over 6
million physicians as members across its global platforms. Since its initial entry in 2016through the acquisition of VIDAL Group, M3 continues to expand its business and operations
in France, with several acquisitions including Weda, a cloud-based electronic health record
company, in 2019, and MonEcho, an AI-assisted sonogram software company, in 2020.
With this new acquisition, VIDAL Group is pursuing its growth strategy with the ambition
to create an ecosystem of digital solutions meeting the needs of healthcare professionals andphysicians in their daily practice. As medical knowledge and practice evolves ever more
quickly, expectations from healthcare professionals in regards to their ongoing training arerising.

Vincent Bouvier, CEO of VIDAL Group ----------------------------------------------------------------------“By integrating ERON Santé, we are expanding our continuing education offerings forhealthcare professionals to best meet their needs. In this area, tomorrow’s challenge resides
in the quality and the reliability of the content. The ambition of VIDAL Group, a reference
provider in the area of knowledge and information on healthcare products and therapeutics,
is to offer healthcare professionals content that meets their expectations. We will work jointlywith the ERON Santé team to develop an offering that is fully aligned with current evolutionsin terms of medical practice.”----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Registered with the ANDPC government agency in France, QUALIOPI and ISO 9001
certified, ERON Santé develops on an ongoing basis, through collaboration with recognizedexperts in their respective fields, numerous immersive training courses designed as closely
as possible to the realities of current professional practice. Its guiding principle: to bring real
added value to all healthcare professionals.

Arthur Balme, co-founder of ERON Santé -----------------------------------------------------------------“Recognized for the quality of its teaching, of its staff and for its professionalism, ERON
Santé pursues only one objective: to offer training programs that allow healthcare
professionals to increase their skills, at their own pace and by optimizing their time, which isprecious”.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Damien Vert, co-founder of ERON Santé -----------------------------------------------------------------"By joining VIDAL Group, we are expanding the distribution channels for our online
training and will collaborate with an editorial team that is expert and demanding, and also
close to the needs of our users".
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About VIDAL GroupVIDAL Group offers medication information systems, clinical decision support andprescription safety solutions, as well as practice management software, with a goal toparticipate in the continuous improvement of medical practice. VIDAL disseminates its dataand services through all types of digital platforms used by healthcare professionals (medicalsoftware, web, mobile). Relying on a multilingual knowledge base, with over 400 employees
in France, Germany and Spain, VIDAL Group is a major player in the field of medical
information systems providing its solutions in 30 countries. In Europe, they are used by morethan 700,000 healthcare professionals and VIDAL contributes to many innovative projects
aiming to mitigate risks related to the use of health products. Since 2016, VIDAL Group is partof the M3 group, a global player in digital health and leader in Asia and Japan. M3 is listed on
the Tokyo Stock Exchange (2413.T).
Overview
Company: ERON Santé SAS
Established: 2015
Headquarters: Paris, France
URL: https://eronsante.com/
Business: Provision of Continuing Medical Education for physicians, physiotherapists,nurses, pharmacists and dentists