Hitachi Held a Global Users’ Meeting
Aimed to Further Advance their Particle Therapy System Through
Collaboration with World-Class Medical Institutions

Tokyo, December 7, 2015 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, “Hitachi”) held a Users’ Meeting for Hitachi’s Particle Therapy System (“System”) on November 17 and 18 at Hitachi Works in Ibaraki, Japan. Members of current sites and sites with signed contracts from a total of 10 world-class hospitals and cancer centers from across the world participated.

While there are approximately 50 particle therapy facilities and an increasing interest in particle therapy, it is expected that more particle therapy systems will be installed in areas other than the United States and Japan including more compact versions of the system with high degrees of accuracy and efficiency, at lower cost.

Hitachi has delivered the System to those world-class medical institutions, which have treated more than a combined total of 10,000 cancer patients, and continues to strive to become the world’s leading company in the field of particle therapy.

Hitachi has been promoting the approach of collaborative creation, sharing challenges and creating solutions with customers as a part of its social innovation business which has led to this meeting of users, providing opportunities for them to have technical discussions with Hitachi’s engineers while reinforcing those channels of continuous communications for the future.

Meetings featured mutual consultations on topics such as dosimetry and treatment planning based on users’ actual field experience helping to conceptualize new technologies, reflecting needs and requirements from leading medical institutions involved in particle therapy. After the meetings, users praised both the opportunity to share knowledge and know-how regarding the System between users and the in-depth technical discussions directly with Hitachi engineers.

Hitachi will continue to strive to provide superior systems as a leading company in particle therapy through future users’ meetings and collaborative activities with users. Hitachi hopes to contribute to the medical industry by providing solutions truly needed by users with high value and improving medical quality and efficacy through healthcare innovation.