December 20, 2021
EPS Corporation
OMRON Healthcare Co., Ltd.
News Release

EPS Corporation Signs Business Partnership Agreement with OMRONHealthcare to Promote Virtual/Online Clinical Trials
EPS Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Akira
Sasa; hereinafter “EPS”) has entered into a business partnership agreement with OMRON HealthcareCo., Ltd. (Head Office: Muko-shi, Kyoto; President and CEO: Isao Ogino: hereinafter “OMRON
Healthcare”) for the purpose of promoting virtual/online clinical trials. Through this partnership, EPS
and OMRON Healthcare will expand proposals and engage in other promotional efforts related to thesystem development and regulations necessary to build frameworks for new virtual/online clinical
trials in the future.

Typical clinical trials ask patients to either visit a hospital to have their blood pressure and other vital
signs taken or to take and record their own vital signs in a daily log at home that can be given to their
physician during medical examinations.
The realization of virtual/online clinical trials enables subjects to measure, grasp, and provide vital
data taken right at home remotely as clinical data using various tools and systems. Clinical trials thatleverage IT technologies can reduce the burden on subjects and facilitate a wide range of approaches
in clinical trials such as cooperation with home-visit health and nursing care. These IT technologies
can also build flexible management systems right for the unique traits of each disease and clinicalsubject as well as the treatment and testing necessary in a clinical trial.
Virtual/online clinical trials will become more common in the future due to potential for a lower
burden on subjects brought by greater convenience and satisfaction and more efficient monitoring.
EPS and OMRON Healthcare concluded this business partnership agreement regarding thepromotion of frameworks for virtual/online clinical trials by combining the strengths of OMRONHealthcare as a provider of blood pressure monitors and other in-home medical devices with those ofEPS as a company supporting all processes of clinical studies via various services to makevirtual/online clinical trials commonplace.
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EPS and OMRON Healthcare’s Business Partnership
EPS and OMRON Healthcare will engage in the following initiatives as efforts to promote andmake virtual/online clinical trials commonplace in the future:
Offer joint seminars to explore the latest information and challenges of virtual/online clinical
trials and present solutions
Explore system development and other necessities for the execution and management ofvirtual/online clinical trials
Propose solutions to management and regulation issues related to virtual/online clinical trials

OMRON Connect is a health management app for mobile phones to manage various data taken using
OMRON devices with communication functions. This data includes blood pressure, weight, bodytemperature, pulse, and blood oxygen saturation in addition to the step count and level of physicalactivity. The use of OMRON Connect creates a foundation for collecting accurate data during
clinical trials. EPS will work together with OMRON Healthcare in this joint venture to build
frameworks to execute virtual/online clinical trials realizing benefits for both the subjects andclinicians running the clinical trials. These efforts will help make virtual/online clinical trials inJapan a reality.
◼ OMRON Connect Health Management App
OMRON Connect is an app for mobile phones for easily managing and linking blood pressure,weight, level of activity, and other vital data taken using an OMRON device with communication
functions to third-party applications and services.
Data measured by a compatible medical device is sent to the OMRON Connect app via Bluetooth toeasily verify changes in physical health and activity level using clear graphs.
EPS Virtual Go Framework
As a leading company supporting clinical study work, EPS is advancing the Virtual Go framework topromote virtual/online clinical trials using its wealth of expertise and experience in data science,
which is backed by an extensive track record.

Virtual Go is a generic name for all EPS services used to promote virtual/online clinical trials.
Virtual Go always strives to satisfy two core ideas: “virtual/online clinical trials in which patients do
not have to visit medical institutions” and “virtual/online clinical trials in which CRAs*1 do not haveto visit medical institutions.” To do this, EPS handles everything from the proposal to the operationand management of various schemes to advance virtual/online clinical trials right for the trial design
and type of disease. This includes eConsent*2, online medical examinations, DDC*3, eCOA*4, use ofwearable devices, shipment of drugs for clinical trials, home-visit nursing, and specimen collection.

About EPS Corporation（https://www.eps.co.jp/en/）

EPS launched its business in 1991 as a CRO*5 to comprehensively support clinical studies with thefocus on clinical trials and PMS*6. The company proposes new models to satisfy customers’ needs byleveraging its data science expertise and digital technology cultivated through its extensive trackrecord. These proposals are founded in its Trial GATE concept, which acts as the gateway for all
promotion functions of clinical trials.
About OMRON Healthcare (https://healthcare.omron.com/)
The mission of OMRON Healthcare is “to advance health and empower people worldwide to live
life to the fullest.” In 2015, its cardiovascular health business established the “Going for Zero: Zero
Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Events” vision with the goal of taking on the challenge toeliminate strokes, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular diseases. At its core, OMRON Healthcare
provides home blood pressure monitors to more than 110 countries around the globe. In 2021, its
home blood pressure monitor sales reached an astounding total of 300 million units worldwide. In
the future, OMRON Healthcare will use its impressive 300 million units in sales as a launching pointto develop products and services that more clearly tackle the continually growing demand for bloodpressure monitors and diversifying customer needs across the world. OMRON Healthcare will also
help more and more people around the globe live healthy and fulfilling lives by expanding its remotehealthcare and other services to every corner of the world.
*1: CRA (Clinical Research Associate)*4: eCOA (Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment)*2: eConsent (Electronic Consent)*3: DDC (Direct Data Capture)*5: CRO (Contract Research Organization)*6: PMS (Post Marketing Surveillance)

Contact:
EPS Corporation
E-mail: koho@eps.co.jp
OMRON Healthcare Co., Ltd.
E-mail: pr-ohq@omron.com