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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)
x
(Mark One)
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021
OR
¨TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Transition Period from to
Commission File Number: 001-35469

VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
94-3354663
Delaware
94-3354663
(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)
Vocera Communications, Inc.
525 Race Street
San Jose, CA 95126
(408) 882-5100
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)


Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
(Title of each class)(Trading Symbol)(Name of each exchange on which registered)
Common Stock, $0.0003 par valueVCRANew York Stock Exchange
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x  No  ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuancepursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “small reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer¨Accelerated filerx
Non-accelerated filer¨Smaller reporting company¨
Emerging growth companyx
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
ClassOutstanding as of October 30, 2017August 2, 2021
Common Stock, $0.0003 par value per share29,216,91334,714,806




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VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBERJUNE 30, 20172021
INDEX
PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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PART II: OTHER INFORMATION
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PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION


Item 1.Financial Statements (Unaudited)
Item 1.Financial Statements (Unaudited)


Vocera Communications, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In Thousands, Except Share and Par Amounts)
(Unaudited)
June 30, 2021December 31, 2020
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents$40,480 $34,976 
Short-term investments251,428 195,227 
Accounts receivable, net of allowance36,596 45,653 
Other receivables6,473 6,170 
Inventories8,602 10,159 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets7,208 6,317 
Total current assets350,787 298,502 
Property and equipment, net6,848 8,103 
Intangible assets, net22,906 12,788 
Goodwill94,846 69,168 
Deferred commissions14,854 12,293 
Other long-term assets7,876 5,967 
Total assets$498,117 $406,821 
Liabilities and stockholders' equity
Current liabilities
Accounts payable$3,219 $3,127 
Accrued payroll and other current liabilities24,757 23,195 
Deferred revenue, current52,065 54,785 
Total current liabilities80,041 81,107 
Deferred revenue, long-term10,490 9,948 
Convertible senior notes, net258,285 124,376 
Other long-term liabilities7,396 10,374 
Total liabilities356,212 225,805 
Stockholders' equity
Preferred stock, $0.0003 par value - 5,000,000 shares authorized as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020; 0 shares issued and outstanding
Common stock, $0.0003 par value - 100,000,000 shares authorized as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020; 34,692,364 and 32,692,561 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively10 10 
Additional paid-in capital296,467 340,515 
Accumulated other comprehensive income107 473 
Accumulated deficit(154,679)(159,982)
Total stockholders’ equity141,905 181,016 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$498,117 $406,821 
 September 30,
2017
 December 31,
2016
Assets   
Current assets   
Cash and cash equivalents$14,840
 $35,033
Short-term investments52,652
 39,033
Accounts receivable, net of allowance35,453
 24,142
Other receivables1,115
 1,211
Inventories3,115
 4,556
Prepaid expenses and other current assets4,758
 3,364
Total current assets111,933
 107,339
Property and equipment, net6,073
 5,894
Intangible assets, net14,658
 18,200
Goodwill49,246
 49,246
Other long-term assets1,537
 1,394
Total assets$183,447
 $182,073
Liabilities and stockholders' equity   
Current liabilities   
Accounts payable$2,790
 $3,231
Accrued payroll and other current liabilities16,050
 15,896
Deferred revenue, current41,559
 43,845
Total current liabilities60,399
 62,972
Deferred revenue, long-term17,577
 11,155
Other long-term liabilities5,084
 4,505
Total liabilities83,060
 78,632
Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)
 
Stockholders' equity   
Preferred stock, $0.0003 par value - 5,000,000 shares authorized as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016; zero shares issued and outstanding
 
Common stock, $0.0003 par value - 100,000,000 shares authorized as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016; 29,208,322 and 27,568,103 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively9
 8
Additional paid-in capital244,827
 230,605
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(93) (69)
Accumulated deficit(144,356) (127,103)
Total stockholders’ equity100,387
 103,441
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$183,447
 $182,073

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Vocera Communications, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(In Thousands, Except Per Share Amounts)
(Unaudited)
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
2021202020212020
Revenue
Product$28,344 $23,951 $50,952 $41,801 
Service27,836 23,396 53,896 46,219 
Total revenue56,180 47,347 104,848 88,020 
Cost of revenue
Product7,541 7,710 14,497 14,074 
Service12,383 9,694 23,210 20,217 
Total cost of revenue19,924 17,404 37,707 34,291 
Gross profit36,256 29,943 67,141 53,729 
Operating expenses
Research and development12,006 9,349 22,356 18,381 
Sales and marketing18,425 15,998 36,095 32,961 
General and administrative9,064 6,923 16,339 13,314 
Total operating expenses39,495 32,270 74,790 64,656 
Loss from operations(3,239)(2,327)(7,649)(10,927)
Interest income295 913 641 2,033 
Interest expense(794)(2,308)(1,571)(4,582)
Other income (expense), net1,544 210 (1,002)(381)
Loss before income taxes(2,194)(3,512)(9,581)(13,857)
(Provision for) benefit from income taxes(88)44 (334)(81)
Net loss$(2,282)$(3,468)$(9,915)$(13,938)
Loss per share
     Basic$(0.07)$(0.11)$(0.29)$(0.44)
     Diluted$(0.07)$(0.11)$(0.29)$(0.44)
Weighted average shares used to compute net loss per share
     Basic34,485 32,152 33,790 31,945 
     Diluted34,485 32,152 33,790 31,945 

Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Revenue       
Product$23,249
 $19,303
 $63,940
 $50,807
Service19,051
 14,452
 53,105
 40,877
Total revenue42,300
 33,755
 117,045
 91,684
Cost of revenue       
Product7,208
 6,042
 20,424
 16,435
Service9,241
 6,253
 28,358
 18,037
Total cost of revenue16,449
 12,295
 48,782
 34,472
Gross profit25,851
 21,460
 68,263
 57,212
Operating expenses       
Research and development6,644
 4,286
 20,944
 12,686
Sales and marketing15,831
 13,305
 45,789
 38,078
General and administrative6,088
 5,138
 17,767
 14,099
Total operating expenses28,563
 22,729
 84,500
 64,863
Loss from operations(2,712) (1,269) (16,237) (7,651)
Interest income177
 196
 410
 573
Other income (expense), net(41) (75) 1
 (226)
Loss before income taxes(2,576) (1,148) (15,826) (7,304)
Provision for income taxes(309) (49) (1,050) (183)
Net loss$(2,885) $(1,197) $(16,876) $(7,487)
        
Net loss per share       
     Basic and diluted$(0.10) $(0.04) $(0.59) $(0.28)
Weighted average shares used to compute net loss per share       
     Basic and diluted29,130
 27,024
 28,439
 26,675



The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.



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Vocera Communications, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
(In Thousands)
(Unaudited)


Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
2021202020212020
Net loss$(2,282)$(3,468)$(9,915)$(13,938)
Other comprehensive loss, net:
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments, net of tax(132)1,806 (366)850 
Comprehensive loss$(2,414)$(1,662)$(10,281)$(13,088)
 Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Net loss$(2,885) $(1,197) $(16,876) $(7,487)
Other comprehensive loss, net:       
     Change in unrealized gain (loss) on investments, net of tax(15) (106) (24) 104
Comprehensive loss$(2,900) $(1,303) $(16,900) $(7,383)


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Vocera Communications, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity
(In Thousands, Except Share Amounts)
(Unaudited)
Common stockAdditional
paid-in
capital
Accum. other
comprehensive
income (loss)
Accumulated
deficit
Total
stockholders’
equity
SharesAmount
Balance at January 1, 202031,660,709 $$313,963 $179 $(150,326)$163,825 
Exercise of stock options77,909 — 731 — — 731 
RSUs released net of shares withheld for tax settlement64,161 — (864)— — (864)
Employee stock-based compensation expense— — 5,841 — — 5,841 
Net loss— — — — (10,470)(10,470)
Other comprehensive loss— — — (956)— (956)
Balance at March 31, 202031,802,779 319,671 (777)(160,796)158,107 
Exercise of stock options46,508 — 594 — 594 
RSUs released net of shares withheld for tax settlement372,639 — (4,716)— (4,716)
Common stock issued under employee stock purchase plan126,046 — 1,966 — 1,966 
Employee stock-based compensation expense— — 6,366 — 6,366 
Net loss— — — — (3,468)(3,468)
Other comprehensive gain— — — 1,806 1,806 
Balance at June 30, 202032,347,972 $$323,881 $1,029 $(164,264)$160,655 
Balance at January 1, 202132,692,561 $10 $340,515 $473 $(159,982)$181,016 
Cumulative effect of the adoption of ASU 2020-06— — (32,214)— 15,218 (16,996)
Exercise of stock options69,360 — 1,181 — — 1,181 
RSUs released net of shares withheld for tax settlement97,766 — (2,185)— — (2,185)
Induced conversion of convertible senior notes1,277,731 — 477 — — 477 
Issuance of capped calls— — (15,460)— — (15,460)
Employee stock-based compensation expense— — 6,862 — — 6,862 
Net loss— — — — (7,633)(7,633)
Other comprehensive loss— — — (234)— (234)
Balance at March 31, 202134,137,418 $10 $299,176 $239 $(152,397)$147,028 
Exercise of stock options29,807 — 425 — — 425 
RSUs released net of shares withheld for tax settlement447,601 — (10,509)— — (10,509)
Common stock issued under employee stock purchase plan77,538 — 2,146 — — 2,146 
Issuance of capped calls— — (1,894)— — (1,894)
Employee stock-based compensation expense— — 7,123 — — 7,123 
Net loss— — — — (2,282)(2,282)
Other comprehensive loss— — — (132)— (132)
Balance at June 30, 202134,692,364 $10 $296,467 $107 $(154,679)$141,905 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Vocera Communications, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(In Thousands)
(Unaudited)
Six months ended June 30,
20212020
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss$(9,915)$(13,938)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization4,587 2,801 
Stock-based compensation expense13,985 12,207 
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs617 3,504 
Non-cash lease expense1,203 1,183 
Non-cash impact of induced premium2,059 
Other1,588 142 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effect of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable9,963 14,293 
Other receivables(89)(275)
Inventories1,436 (3,866)
Prepaid expenses and other assets(1,060)(607)
Deferred commissions(2,561)(640)
Accounts payable(535)(1,035)
Accrued payroll and other liabilities(5,298)1,176 
Change in lease-related performance obligations(580)(623)
Deferred revenue(3,952)(7,461)
Net cash provided by operating activities11,448 6,861 
Cash flows from investing activities
Payment for property and equipment(853)(1,427)
Business acquisitions, net of cash and restricted cash acquired(35,397)
Purchase of short-term investments(127,240)(86,300)
Maturities of short-term investments69,430 72,137 
Sales of short-term investments14,393 
Net cash used in investing activities(94,060)(1,197)
Cash flows from financing activities
Cash from lease-related performance obligations198 306 
Repayment of borrowings(102,946)
Proceeds from issuance of convertible senior notes, net of issuance costs217,758 
Payment for purchase of capped calls(17,354)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock from the employee stock purchase plan2,146 1,966 
Proceeds from exercise of stock options1,606 1,325 
Tax withholdings paid on behalf of employees for net share settlement(12,694)(5,579)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities88,714 (1,982)
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash6,102 3,682 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period34,976 25,704 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period$41,078 $29,386 



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 Nine months ended September 30,
 2017 2016
Cash flows from operating activities   
Net loss$(16,876) $(7,487)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:   
Depreciation and amortization5,755
 2,271
Inventory provision179
 125
Change in lease-related performance obligations(598) (631)
Stock-based compensation expense13,204
 8,591
Other28
 (57)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:   
Accounts receivable(11,310) 4,833
Other receivables96
 140
Inventories1,262
 (1,496)
Prepaid expenses and other assets(1,539) (690)
Accounts payable(436) (414)
Accrued payroll and other liabilities925
 239
Deferred revenue4,137
 2,225
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities(5,173) 7,649
Cash flows from investing activities   
Purchase of property and equipment(2,420) (3,888)
Purchase of short-term investments(59,608) (82,941)
Maturities of short-term investments45,963
 93,925
Sales of short-term investments
 4,876
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities(16,065) 11,972
Cash flows from financing activities   
Cash from lease-related performance obligations347
 1,457
Proceeds from issuance of common stock from the employee stock purchase plan1,246
 786
Proceeds from exercise of stock options7,145
 1,117
Tax withholdings paid on behalf of employees for net share settlement(7,693) (2,453)
Net cash provided by financing activities1,045
 907
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents(20,193) 20,528
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period35,033
 20,572
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$14,840
 $41,100
    
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:   
Property and equipment in accounts payable and accrued liabilities$40
 $390

Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)20212020
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:
Costs related to the convertible senior notes in accounts payable and accrued liabilities$98 $
Operating lease right-of-use assets exchanged for lease obligations, net of acquired leases$731 122 
Convertible senior notes converted to equity$477 $
Property and equipment in accounts payable and accrued liabilities$259 $222 
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as shown in the consolidated statement of cash flows
Cash and cash equivalents$40,480 $29,386 
Restricted cash included in other long-term assets598 
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$41,078 $29,386 
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Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements


1.The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
1. The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization and Business
Vocera Communications, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”(collectively, the "Company" or “Vocera”"Vocera") is a provider of secure, integrated, intelligent communication and clinical workflow solutions, focused on empowering mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, retail, energy, education and other mission-critical mobile work environments, in the United States and internationally. The significant majority of the Company’sCompany's business is generated from sales of its solutions in the healthcare market to help its customers improve quality of care, safety, patient and staff experience and increase operational efficiency.
The Vocera Communication System, which includescommunication and collaboration solution includes: an intelligent enterprise software platform,platform; a lightweight, wearable, voice-controlled communication badgeBadge and Smartbadge; and smartphone applications,applications. The solution enables users to simply connect instantly with other staff simply by saying the name, function or group name of the desired recipient. It also securely delivers HIPAA-compliant secure text messages, alerts and alertsalarms directly to a range of smartphones or the Smartbadge both inside and from smartphones,outside the hospital, replacing legacy pagers. pagers and in-building wireless phones.
The Company’s new Engage software is an event-driven, communicationCompany was incorporated in Delaware on February 16, 2000. The Company formed wholly-owned subsidiaries Vocera Communications UK Ltd and workflow collaboration solution for the hospital environment. It features an advanced clinical rules engineVocera Communications Australia Pty Ltd. in 2005, Vocera Canada, Ltd. in 2010, Vocera Communications India Private Ltd. in 2013, Vocera Communications Middle East FZ LLC in 2014, acquired Extension, LLC in 2016, EASE Applications, LLC ("EASE") in 2020, and interoperates with data from multiple clinical systems. This enables the prioritization of notifications, including patient context, and sends messages to the right care team members on their mobile devices. The Company’s software applications help improve care coordination, patient safety and patient satisfaction.PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. (“PatientSafe”) in 2021.
Basis of Presentation
The Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and, pursuant to the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and include the accounts of Vocera and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. Accordingly, these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.2020. The year-end condensed consolidated balance sheet data was derived from the Company’s audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP.
In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to present fairly the Company’s interim consolidated financial information. The results for the quarter presented are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 20172021 or for any other interim period or any other future year.
TheExcept for the change in certain accounting policies followed inupon adoption of the preparation of these financial statements are consistent in allaccounting standards described below, there have been no material respects with thosechanges to the Company’s significant accounting policies compared to the accounting policies presented in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.2020.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting periods. The estimates include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, warranty reserves, accounts receivable reserves, inventory reserves, bonuses, goodwill and intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, provisions for income taxes, contingent consideration and contingencies. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and such differences could be material to the Company’s financial position and results of operations.
Revenue Recognition
The Company derives revenue from the sales of communication badges, perpetual software licenses for software that is essentialCertain reclassifications have been made to the functionality of the communication badges, smartphones, software maintenance, extended product warranty and professional services. The Company also derives revenue from the sale of licenses for software that is not essentialprior year financial statements to conform to the functionality of the communication badges, which may include Clinical Integration and Vocera smartphone applications as well as certain subscription-based revenues including Vocera Care Experience. The Company’s revenue recognition policy has not changed from that described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for thecurrent year ended December 31, 2016.
Transfer of sales-type leases to third-parties

Proceeds from transfers of sales-type leases to third-party financial companies are allocated between the net investment in sales-type leases and the executory cost component for remaining service obligations based on relative present value. The difference between the amount of proceeds allocated to the net investment in lease and the carrying value of the net investment in lease is included in product revenue. Proceeds allocated to the executory cost component are accounted for as financing liabilities.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company transferred $0.6 million and $3.3 million, respectively, of lease receivables in non-recourse sales to third-party financial companies, with immaterial net losses. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company recorded $0.5 million and $1.5 million, respectively, of financing liabilities for future performance of executory service obligations. For lease receivables retained as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the Company recorded $1.5 million and $1.9 million of net investment in sales-type leases, respectively, equivalent to the minimum lease payments less the unearned interest portion.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncement
In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued new guidance related to accounting for stock-based payment award transactions. The guidance is designed to simplify several aspects of accounting for share-based payment award transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, classification on the statement of cash flows and forfeiture rate calculations. The guidance eliminates the requirement to delay the recognition of excess tax benefits until they reduce current taxes payable. Under this standard, previously unrecognized excess tax benefits shall be recognized on a modified retrospective basis. However, as of January 1, 2017, the previously unrecognized excess tax benefits of $10.4 millionpresentation. These reclassifications had no impact on the Company’spreviously reported net loss or accumulated deficit balance as the related U.S. deferred tax assets were fully offset by a valuation allowance. The guidance also requires excess tax benefits and deficiencies to be recognized prospectively in the provision for income taxes rather than additional paid-in capital. The Company therefore determined that adoption of the new guidance had no material impact on the condensed consolidated statement of operations and the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows. Further, the new guidance eliminates the requirement to estimate forfeitures and reduce stock compensation expense during the vesting period. Instead, companies can elect to account for actual forfeitures as they occur and record any previously unrecognized compensation expense for estimated forfeitures up to the period of adoption as a retrospective adjustment to beginning retained earnings. The Company has made the election to account for actual forfeitures as they occur starting in fiscal year 2017. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company recorded a retrospective adjustment to accumulated deficit of $0.4 million.deficit.
RecentRecently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In May 2014, the FASB together with the International Accounting Standards Board issued converged guidance for revenue recognition that will replace most existing guidance, eliminate industry-specific guidance and provide a unified model for determining how and when revenue from contracts with customers should be recognized. Under the new guidance, an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.
The new guidance permits two methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (full retrospective method), or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application(modified retrospective method).  The Company currently plans to adopt using the full retrospective method, however, such determination could change depending on a number of factors including system readiness, the magnitude of the potential impact on the financial results, and its ability to gather sufficient data to assess the impact on prior period financial statements timely.
Public entities are required to adopt the new guidance for annual reporting periods beginning December 15, 2017, including interim periods.  The Company will adopt the new guidance on January 1, 2018. 
The Company anticipates the new guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. While the Company is continuing to assess all potential impacts of the standard, the Company currently believes the most significant impact relates to the timing of revenue recognition for software licenses sold with professional services as it did not have vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) for professional services under current guidance.   Under the new standard, the requirement to have VSOE for undelivered elements is eliminated and the Company will recognize revenue for software licenses upon transfer of control to its customers. Additionally, the new standard requires the capitalization and amortization of costs related to obtaining a contract which are currently expensed at the time of sale.   The Company is continuing to assess the impact of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements, as well as the determination of the method of adoption.
In February 2016, the FASB amended lease accounting requirements to begin recording assets and liabilities arising from leases on the balance sheet. The new guidance will also require significant additional disclosures about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows from leases. This new guidance will be effective beginning on January 1, 2019 using a modified retrospective approach. The modified retrospective approach includes a number of optional practical expedients that entities may elect to apply. The Company has not yet determined the future effect of the standard on its financial position or results of operations.

In June 2016,August 2020, the FASB issued new guidanceASU 2020-06 related to the accounting for credit losses on instruments for both financial services and non-financial services entities.debt with conversion features. The new guidance introduces an approach based on expected losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments. It also modifies the impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities and provides for a simplified accounting model for purchased financial assets with credit deterioration since their origination. The guidance will be effective beginning January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact ofamendments in this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
In October 2016, the FASB issued amended guidance onupdate simplify the accounting for income taxes. The newconvertible instruments by reducing the number of accounting models available for convertible debt instruments and convertible preferred stock. This update also amends the guidance for the derivatives scope
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exception for contracts in an entity's own equity to reduce form-over-substance-based accounting conclusions and requires the recognitionapplication of the income tax consequencesif-converted method for calculating diluted earnings per share. The update also requires entities to provide expanded disclosures about the terms and features of convertible instruments, how the instruments have been reported in the entity's financial statements and information about events, conditions and circumstances that can affect how to assess the amount or timing of an intercompany asset transfer, other than transfers of inventory, when the transfer occurs.entity's future cash flows related to those instruments. The guidance will beis effective for reportinginterim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017,2021 with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements, but does not expect that it will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
In January 2017, the FASB issued new guidance which clarifies the definition of a business to assist companies with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions of assets or businesses. The new guidance requires a company to evaluate if substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired (or disposed of) is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or a group of similar identifiable assets; if so, the set of assets and activities is not a business. The guidance also requires a business to include at least one substantive process and narrows the definition of outputs by more closely aligning it with how outputs are described in the guidance for revenue from contracts with customers. The new guidance will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2018. Early adoption is permitted. The guidance should be applied prospectively to any transactions occurring within the period of adoption. The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In January 2017, the FASB issued new guidance to simplify the accounting for goodwill impairment. The guidance simplifies the measurement of goodwill impairment by removing step 2 of the goodwill impairment test, which requires the determination of the fair value of individual assets and liabilities of a reporting unit.  The new guidance requires goodwill impairment to be measured as the amount by which a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value; however, the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. The amendments should be applied on a prospective basis.  The new standard is effectivepermitted for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 with early adoption permitted for2020, including interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed afterperiods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted the guidance beginning January 1, 2017. 2021. The adoption of this guidance resulted in an increase of $17.0 million and $15.2 million to convertible senior notes, net and accumulated deficit, respectively, and a reduction to additional paid-in capital of $32.2 million.

2.Revenue, Deferred Revenue and Deferred Commissions
Disaggregation of Revenue
A typical sales arrangement involves multiple arrangements, such as sales of the Company’s proprietary communication device ("Vocera Badge"), perpetual software licenses, professional services, cloud-based subscription software, and support services which entitles customers to unspecified upgrades, patch releases and telephone-based support. The following table depicts the disaggregation of revenue according to revenue type and is consistent with how the Company evaluates its financial performance:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Product revenue
Device$16,256 $17,100 $31,529 $31,003 
Software12,088 6,851 19,423 10,798 
Total product28,344 23,951 50,952 41,801 
Service revenue
Subscription and support22,641 18,994 43,600 37,063 
Professional services and training5,195 4,402 10,296 9,156 
Total service27,836 23,396 53,896 46,219 
Total revenue$56,180 $47,347 $104,848 $88,020 
Contract balances
The timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of invoicing to customers. Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and in the period the Company delivers goods or provides services or when the Company’s right to consideration is unconditional. Payment terms on invoiced amounts are typically 30 days. The balance of accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 is presented in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. In situations where revenue recognition occurs before invoicing, an unbilled receivable is created, which represents a contract asset. As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, contract assets totaling $4.6 million and $4.2 million, respectively, were included in other receivables in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Costs to obtain and fulfill a contract
The Company capitalizes certain incremental contract acquisition costs consisting primarily of commissions paid and the related payroll taxes when customer contracts are signed. The Company determines whether costs should be deferred based on its sales compensation plans, if the commissions are incremental and would not have been incurred absent the execution of the customer contract. Sales commissions for renewals of customer contracts are not commensurate with the commissions paid for the acquisition of the initial contract given the substantive difference in commission rates in proportion to their respective contract values. Commissions paid upon the initial acquisition of a contract are amortized over the estimated period of benefit, which may exceed the term of the initial contract. Accordingly, amortization of deferred costs is recognized on a systematic basis that is consistent with the pattern of revenue recognition allocated to each performance obligation and is included in sales and marketing expense in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company determines its estimated period of benefit, up to five years, by evaluating the impactexpected renewals of this new accounting guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
customer contracts, the duration of its relationships with its customers and other factors. Deferred costs are periodically reviewed for impairment. In May 2017, the FASB amended the scope of modification accounting for share-based payment arrangements. The guidance clarifies the type of changes to terms or conditions of share-based payment awards to whichaccordance with Topic 340, an entity would be required
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may elect a practical expedient that allows the entity to apply modification accounting. Specifically, under this guidance,recognize the incremental costs of obtaining a contract as an entity would not apply modification accountingexpense when incurred if the fair value, vesting conditions, and classificationamortization period of the awardsasset that the entity otherwise would have recognized is one year or less. The Company has elected this practical expedient and recognizes costs paid to obtain contracts as expense when incurred. Changes in the balance of total deferred commissions (contract asset) during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 are as follows:
(in thousands)March 31, 2021AdditionsCommissions RecognizedJune 30, 2021
Deferred commissions$12,713 $4,452 $(2,311)$14,854 
(in thousands)December 31, 2020AdditionsCommissions RecognizedJune 30, 2021
Deferred commissions$12,293 $6,787 $(4,226)$14,854 
Of the same immediately before and after the modification. The new standard is effective for$14.9 million total deferred commissions balance as of June 30, 2021, the Company expects to recognize approximately 39% as commission expense over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter.
Deferred revenue
The Company records deferred revenue when cash payments are received in advance of the performance under the contract. The current portion of deferred revenue represents the amounts that are expected to be recognized as revenue within one year of the consolidated balance sheet date. Changes in the first quarterbalance of 2018. Early adoption is permitted. total deferred revenue (contract liability) during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 are as follows:
(in thousands)March 31, 2021AdditionsRevenue RecognizedJune 30, 2021
Deferred revenue$60,136 $27,433 $(25,014)$62,555 
(in thousands)December 31, 2020AdditionsRevenue RecognizedJune 30, 2021
Deferred revenue$64,733 $45,350 $(47,528)$62,555 
Revenue recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 from deferred revenue balances at the beginning of the period was $22.6 million and $43.7 million, respectively. Revenue recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 from deferred revenue balances at the beginning of the period was $19.5 million and $34.2 million, respectively.
The guidance will be applied prospectively“contracted but not recognized” performance obligations represent the Company’s deferred revenue and non-cancelable backlog amounts. This balance as of June 30, 2021 was $179.0 million, of which the Company expects to awards modified on or afterrecognize approximately 66% as revenue over the adoption date. The Company does not expectnext 12 months and the guidance to have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.remainder thereafter.


2.Fair Value of Financial Instruments
3.Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company’s cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are carried at their fair values with any differences from their amortized cost recorded in equity as unrealized gains (losses) on marketable securities. As a basis for determining the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company follows a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows: (Level 1) observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets; (Level 2) inputs other than the quoted prices in active markets that are observable either directly or indirectly; and (Level 3) unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data which requires the Company to develop its own assumptions. This hierarchy requires the Company to use observable market data, when available, and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs when determining fair value. ForDuring the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there have been no transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 fair value instruments and no transfers in or out of Level 3.
The Company’s money market funds are classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using quoted market prices. The fair value of the Company’s Level 2 fixed income securities areis obtained from independent pricing
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services, which may use quoted market prices for identical or comparable instruments or model-driven valuations using observable market data or other inputs, corroborated by observable market data.
In addition to its cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, the Company measures the fair value of its Convertible Senior Notes on a quarterly basis for disclosure purposes. The Company does not have anyconsiders the fair value of the Convertible Senior Notes at June 30, 2021 to be a Level 2 measurement due to limited trading activity of the Convertible Senior Notes. Refer to Note 8 to the condensed consolidated financial instrumentsstatements for further information.
The agreement for the acquisition of EASE includes contingent payments to the owners of EASE, payable based on achievement of post-acquisition financial metrics. This contingent consideration is a Level 3 fair value measurement and the valuation of the Company’s contingent consideration obligation was estimated as the present value of total expected contingent consideration payments which are valueddetermined using Level 3 inputs.

a Monte Carlo simulation. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the purchase agreements and utilizes assumptions with regard to future sales, probabilities of achieving such future sales, the likelihood and timing of expected payments and a discount rate. Significant increases with respect to assumptions as to future sales and probabilities of achieving such future sales would result in a higher fair value measurement, while an increase in the discount rate would result in a lower fair value measurement. The unobservable inputs in the valuation include revenue volatility of 11%, a risk-free rate of 2.50%, and the amounts are expected to be paid in the second quarters of 2022 and 2023. The fair value adjustment for the contingent consideration of$(1.7) million and $(1.3) millionfor the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, was recorded as other income in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
The Company’s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis, by level, within the fair value hierarchy as of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and December 31, 2016,2020, are summarized as follows (in thousands):
June 30, 2021December 31, 2020
Level 1Level 2Level 3TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3Total
Assets
Money market funds$15,471 $$$15,471 $363 $$$363 
Commercial paper62,960 62,960 21,950 21,950 
U.S. Treasury securities6,000 6,000 
Corporate debt securities188,468 188,468 173,277 173,277 
Total assets measured at fair value$15,471 $251,428 $$266,899 $363 $201,227 $$201,590 
Liabilities
Contingent consideration$$$1,661 1,661 $$$2,959 $2,959 
Total liabilities measured at fair value$$$1,661 $1,661 $$$2,959 $2,959 
 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016
 Level 1
Level 2
Total
 Level 1
Level 2
Total
Assets       
Money market funds$1,685
$
$1,685
 $4,996
$
$4,996
Commercial paper
962
962
 
1,322
1,322
U.S. government agency securities
9,948
9,948
 
4,177
4,177
U.S. Treasury securities
4,481
4,481
 
2,045
2,045
Corporate debt securities
39,003
39,003
 
33,166
33,166
Total assets measured at fair value
$1,685
$54,394
$56,079
 $4,996
$40,710
$45,706

The Company had no liabilities as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016financial accounts that were measured atare not subject to recurring fair value onmeasurement include trade and other receivables, prepaid expenses and other current assets, total current liabilities and deferred revenues, both current and long-term. Due to their short maturities, the carrying amounts of these accounts approximate their fair values.
The table below provides a recurring basis.roll-forward of the fair value of the Company's liabilities that use significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) (in thousands).

3.Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term InvestmentsSix months ended June 30,
2021
Beginning balance$2,959 
Fair value adjustment for contingent consideration included in earnings$(1,298)
Ending balance$1,661 


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4.Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments
The following tables present current and prior-year-end balances for cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments (in thousands): as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020:
As of June 30, 2021
Amortized CostUnrealized GainsUnrealized LossesFair value
Cash and cash equivalents:
Cash$25,009 $$$25,009 
Money market funds15,471 15,471 
Total cash and cash equivalents40,480 40,480 
Short-term investments:
Commercial papers62,956 (2)62,960 
Corporate debt securities188,365 182 (79)188,468 
Total short-term investments251,321 188 (81)251,428 
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$291,801 $188 $(81)$291,908 
 As of September 30, 2017
 Amortized Cost Unrealized Gains Unrealized Losses Fair value
Cash and cash equivalents:       
Demand deposits and other cash$11,413
 $
 $
 $11,413
Money market funds1,685
 
 
 1,685
Commercial paper400
 
 
 400
U.S. government agency securities1,040
 
 
 1,040
Corporate debt securities302
 
 
 302
Total cash and cash equivalents14,840
 
 
 14,840
        
Short-Term Investments:       
Commercial paper562
 
 
 562
U.S. government agency securities8,916
 1
 (9) 8,908
U.S. Treasury securities4,487
 
 (6) 4,481
Corporate debt securities38,724
 3
 (26) 38,701
Total short-term investments52,689
 4
 (41) 52,652
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$67,529
 $4
 $(41) $67,492


As of December 31, 2020
Amortized CostUnrealized GainsUnrealized LossesFair value
Cash and cash equivalents:
Cash$28,613 $$$28,613 
Money market funds363 363 
U.S. government agency securities6,000 6,000 
Total cash and cash equivalents34,976 34,976 
Short-term investments:
Commercial papers21,961 (11)21,950 
Corporate debt securities172,768 543 (34)173,277 
Total short-term investments194,729 543 (45)195,227 
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$229,705 $543 $(45)$230,203 
 As of December 31, 2016
 Amortized Cost Unrealized Gains Unrealized Losses Fair value
Cash and cash equivalents:       
Demand deposits and other cash$28,360
 $
 $
 $28,360
Money market funds4,996
 
 
 4,996
Commercial paper549
 
 
 549
Corporate debt securities1,128
 
 
 1,128
Total cash and cash equivalents35,033
 
 
 35,033
Short-Term Investments:       
Commercial paper773
 
 
 773
U.S. government agency securities4,176
 1
 
 4,177
U.S. Treasury securities2,045
 
 
 2,045
Corporate debt securities32,052
 1
 (15) 32,038
Total short-term investments39,046
 2
 (15) 39,033
Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$74,079
 $2
 $(15) $74,066
        

The Company has determined that the unrealizedno credit losses on its short-term investmentsrelated to marketable securities were required as of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and December 31, 2016 do not constitute an “other than temporary impairment.” The unrealized losses for the short-term investments have all been in a continuous unrealized loss position for less than twelve months.2020. The Company’s conclusion of no “other than temporary impairment” is based on the high credit quality of the securities, their short remaining maturity and the Company’s intent and ability to hold such loss securities until maturity.
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Classification of the cash, cash equivalentequivalents and short-term investments by contractual maturity was as follows:
(in thousands)One year or shorterBetween 1 and 2 yearsTotal
Balances as of June 30, 2021
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$40,480 $$40,480 
Short-term investments201,890 49,538 251,428 
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$242,370 $49,538 $291,908 
Balances as of December 31, 2020
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$34,976 $$34,976 
Short-term investments141,582 53,645 195,227 
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$176,558 $53,645 $230,203 
(1) Includes demand deposits and other cash, money market funds and other cash equivalent securities, all with 0-90 day maturity at purchase.

5.Net Loss Per Share
(in thousands)One year or shorter
 Between 1 and 2 years
 Total
Balances as of September 30, 2017     
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$14,840
 $
 $14,840
Short-term investments32,577
 20,075
 52,652
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$47,417
 $20,075
 $67,492
      
Balances as of December 31, 2016     
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$35,033
 $
 $35,033
Short-term investments39,033
 
 39,033
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments$74,066
 $
 $74,066
      
(1) Includes demand deposits and other cash, money market funds and other cash equivalent securities, all with 0-90 day maturity at purchase.


4.Net Loss Per Share
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per share amounts):
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,2021202020212020
2017 2016 2017 2016
Numerator:       Numerator:
Net loss$(2,885) $(1,197) $(16,876) $(7,487)Net loss$(2,282)$(3,468)$(9,915)$(13,938)
       
Denominator:       Denominator:
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per common share - basic and diluted29,130
 27,024
 28,439
 26,675
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per common share - basic and diluted34,48532,15233,79031,945
       
Net loss per share       Net loss per share
Basic and diluted$(0.10) $(0.04) $(0.59) $(0.28) Basic and diluted$(0.07)$(0.11)$(0.29)$(0.44)
The following securities were not included in the calculation of diluted shares outstanding as the effect would have been anti-dilutive:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Options to purchase common stock, including ESPP213 517 253 568 
Restricted stock units and performance stock units1,831 2,125 1,967 1,880 
Convertible senior notes (if-converted)4,998 4,795 

6.Goodwill and Intangible Assets
 Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016 2017 2016
Options to purchase common stock, including ESPP1,426
 2,813
 1,735
 2,996
Restricted stock units2,166
 1,835
 2,216
 1,671

5.Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
As of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and December 31, 2016,2020, the Company had $49.2$94.8 million and $49.2$69.2 million of goodwill, respectively, with $41.2respectively. The addition to goodwill during the six months ended June 30, 2021 of $25.7 million and $8.0 million allocated towas based on the Company’s Product and Services operating segments, respectively.purchase price allocations of the acquisition completed during the three months ended June 30, 2021 (see Note 12). As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there were no changes in circumstances indicating that the carrying values of goodwill or acquired intangibles may not be recoverable.
The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill are as follows (in thousands):
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Balance at December 31, 2020$69,168
Acquired in acquisition (Note 12)25,678
Balance at June 30, 2021$94,846
Intangible Assets
The fair values for acquired intangible assets were determined by management with consideration of, in part, valuations performed by independent valuation specialists. Acquisition-related intangible assets are amortized either straight-line, or over the life of the assets on a basis that resembles the economic benefit of the assets. This yieldsassumption results in amortization in the latter case that is higher in earlier periods of the useful life.
The estimated useful lives and carrying value of acquired intangible assets are as follows:
 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016June 30, 2021December 31, 2020
(in thousands)
Range of
Useful Life
(years)
 
Gross
 Carrying
 Amount
 
Accumulated
Amortization
 
Net
 Carrying
 Amount
 
Gross
 Carrying
 Amount
 
Accumulated
Amortization
 
Net
 Carrying
 Amount
(in thousands)Weighted Average
Useful Life
(years)
Gross
 Carrying
 Amount
Accumulated
Amortization
Net
 Carrying
 Amount
Gross
 Carrying
 Amount
Accumulated
Amortization
Net
 Carrying
 Amount
Developed technology3 to 7 $10,050
 $4,688
 $5,362
 $10,050
 $2,845
 $7,205
Developed technology3.3$17,620 $(10,992)$6,628 $12,360 $(10,255)$2,105 
Customer relationships7 to 9 10,920
 3,172
 7,748
 10,920
 2,280
 8,640
Customer relationships8.019,640 (8,073)11,567 16,350 (7,143)9,207 
Backlog3 1,400
 574
 826
 1,400
 78
 1,322
Backlog3.85,950 (1,708)4,242 2,240 (1,343)897 
Non-compete agreements2 to 4 460
 438
 22
 460
 389
 71
Trademarks3 to 7 1,110
 410
 700
 1,110
 148
 962
Trademarks3.01,770 (1,301)469 1,770 (1,191)579 
Intangible assets, net book value $23,940
 $9,282
 $14,658
 $23,940
 $5,740
 $18,200
Intangible assets, net book value$44,980 $(22,074)$22,906 $32,720 $(19,932)$12,788 
Amortization expense was $1.2$1.3 million and $0.2$0.3 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and 2016,2020, respectively. Amortization expense was $3.5$2.1 million and $0.6 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and 2016,2020, respectively.
Amortization of acquired intangible assets is reflected in the cost of revenue for developed technology and backlog and in operating expenses for the other intangible assets. The estimated future amortization of existing acquired intangible assets as of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 was as follows:
(in thousands)Future amortization
2021 (remaining six months)$3,235 
20226,057 
20235,537 
20243,506 
20251,409 
20261,090 
Thereafter2,072 
     Future amortization expense$22,906 

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(in thousands) Future amortization
2017 (remaining three months) $1,001
2018 4,424
2019 3,880
2020 1,251
2021 1,127
2022 1,050
Thereafter 1,925
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6.Balance Sheet Components
Inventories
(in thousands)September 30,
2017
 December 31,
2016
Raw materials$77
 $103
Finished goods3,038
 4,453
        Total inventories$3,115
 $4,556
7.Balance Sheet Components
Inventories
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
December 31,
2020
Raw materials$356 $462 
Finished goods8,246 9,697 
        Total inventories$8,602 $10,159 
Property and equipment, net
(in thousands)September 30,
2017
 December 31,
2016
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
December 31,
2020
Computer equipment and software$8,682
 $8,971
Computer equipment and software$15,865 $15,912 
Furniture, fixtures and equipment1,771
 1,726
Furniture, fixtures and equipment2,760 2,570 
Leasehold improvements4,790
 4,144
Leasehold improvements5,762 5,306 
Manufacturing tools and equipment2,568
 3,019
Manufacturing tools and equipment2,758 2,506 
Construction in process19
 74
Construction in process210 629 
Property and equipment, at cost17,830
 17,934
Property and equipment, at cost27,355 26,923 
Less: Accumulated depreciation(11,757) (12,040)Less: Accumulated depreciation(20,507)(18,820)
Property and equipment, net$6,073
 $5,894
Property and equipment, net$6,848 $8,103 
Depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment was $0.8$1.3 million and $0.6$1.2 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and 2016,2020, respectively. Depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment was $2.2$2.4 million and $1.7$2.2 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and 2016,2020, respectively.

Net investment in sales-type leases
The Company has sales-type leases with terms of 23 to 4 years. Sales-type lease receivables are collateralized by the underlying equipment. The components of the Company’s net investment in sales-type leases are as follows:
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
 December 31,
2020
Minimum payments to be received on sales-type leases$1,101  $1,440 
Less: Unearned interest income and executory revenue portion(540) (731)
Net investment in sales-type leases561  709 
Less: Current portion(316) (360)
Non-current net investment in sales-type leases$245  $349 
(in thousands)September 30,
2017
 December 31,
2016
Minimum payments to be received on sales-type leases$3,221
 $3,566
Less: Unearned interest income and executory costs(1,762) (1,704)
Net investment in sales-type leases1,459
 1,862
Less: Current portion(920) (1,066)
Non-current net investment in sales-type leases$539
 $796
Sales-type lease activity recognized in the condensed consolidated statement of operations are as follows:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Lease revenue$500 $1,118 $919 $1,553 
Less: Cost of lease shipments(32)(165)(40)(175)
Gross profit$468 $953 $879 $1,378 
Interest income (expense), net on lease receivable$$(6)$$(12)
Initial direct cost incurred$22 $60 $39 $83 
There were no allowances for doubtful accounts on these leases as of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and December 31, 2016.2020. There is no guaranteed or unguaranteed residual value on the leased equipment. The current and non-current net investments in sales-type
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leases are reported as components of the condensed consolidated balance sheet captions “other receivables” and “other long-term assets,” respectively.
The minimum payments expected to be received for future years under sales-type leases as of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 were as follows:
(in thousands)Future lease payments
2017 (remaining three months)$423
20181,513
2019828
2020446
202111
     Total$3,221
(in thousands)Future lease payments
2021 (remaining six months)$361 
2022522 
2023185 
202433 
     Total$1,101 
Accrued payroll and other current liabilities
(in thousands)September 30,
2017
 December 31,
2016
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
December 31,
2020
Payroll and related expenses$11,116
 $10,385
Payroll and related expenses$11,907 $9,043 
Accrued payables1,675
 2,334
Accrued payables2,985 3,160 
Deferred rent, current portion259
 229
Operating lease liabilities, current portionOperating lease liabilities, current portion3,627 2,529 
Lease financing, current portion773
 801
Lease financing, current portion1,097 1,034 
Product warranty311
 596
Product warranty433 453 
Customer prepayments972
 769
Customer prepayments1,472 4,292 
Sales and use tax payable437
 451
Sales and use tax payable513 476 
Other taxes payableOther taxes payable2,210 1,832 
Other507
 331
Other513 376 
Total accrued payroll and other current liabilities$16,050
 $15,896
Total accrued payroll and other current liabilities$24,757 $23,195 
The changes in the Company’s product warranty reserve are as follows:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Warranty balance at the beginning of the period$462 $440 $453 $420 
Warranty expense accrued for shipments during the period80 115 150 223 
Changes in estimate related to pre-existing warranties(94)40 (126)
Warranty settlements made(15)(74)(44)(131)
Total product warranty$433 $521 $433 $521 

Leases
The Company has operating leases for office space at its headquarters and subsidiaries under non-cancelable operating leases. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet; lease expense for these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Some lease agreements contain lease and non-lease components, which are accounted for as a single lease component. The Company’s leases have remaining lease terms of approximately nine months to approximately eight years. Operating lease cost, including short-term operating leases was$0.8 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively and $1.5 million and $1.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
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 Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016 2017 2016
Warranty balance at the beginning of the period$315
 $638
 $596
 $806
Warranty expense accrued for shipments during the period118
 218
 376
 568
Changes in estimate related to pre-existing warranties(49) (73) (426) (313)
Warranty settlements made(73) (78) (235) (356)
Total product warranty$311
 $705
 $311
 $705
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:

(in thousands)June 30,
2021
Other long-term assets$4,908 
Accrued payroll and other current liabilities3,627 
Other long-term liabilities2,692 
Total operating lease liabilities$6,319 
Other information related to leases was as follows:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Supplemental Cash Flow Information
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities$1,005 $732 $1,766 1,444 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations$1,423 $122 $2,096 122 
Weighted average remaining lease term2.13 years2.46 years2.13 years2.46 years
Weighted average discount rate%%%%
Maturities of lease liabilities as of June 30, 2021 are as follows:
(in thousands)Operating leases
2021 (remaining six months)$2,073 
20223,096 
2023908 
2024523 
2025175 
202674 
Total maturities of lease liabilities6,849 
Less imputed interest(530)
Total$6,319 
During the three months ended June 30, 2021, the Company entered into a new lease for its headquarters with lease payments totaling $15.5 million. The Company will have access to the facility starting in the third quarter of 2021 and the lease goes through the second quarter of 2029.

8.Convertible Senior Notes
Convertible Senior Notes due 2026
In March 2021, the Company issued $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes, due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”). The 2026 Notes are unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Company and bear interest at a fixed rate of 0.50% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2021. The 2026 Notes mature on September 15, 2026, unless converted, redeemed or repurchased in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Company granted the initial purchasers an overallotment option under the purchase agreement to purchase up to an additional $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of the 2026 Notes to cover overallotments within a 30-day period. The purchasers partially exercised the overallotment option in April 2021 and the Company issued an additional $24.5 million of the 2026 Notes. The Company may not redeem the 2026 Notes prior to March 20, 2024. The Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2026 Notes (subject to the partial redemption limitation (as defined in the Indenture)), at its option, on or after March 20, 2024 if the last reported sale price of common stock has been at least 130%
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of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides a redemption notice at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2026 Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.
The 2026 Notes are convertible into cash, shares of Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election, at an initial conversion rate of 16.6272 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the 2026 Notes, which is equal to an initial conversion price of approximately $60.14 per share of common stock. The 2026 Notes will be convertible at the option of the holders at any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding June 15, 2026, only under the following circumstances:
(1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on June 30, 2021 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the last reported sale price of common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price of the 2026 Notes on each applicable trading day
(2) during the 5 business day period after any 10 consecutive trading day period in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the 2026 Notes for each trading day of that 10 day consecutive trading day period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of common stock and the conversion rate of the 2026 Notes on such trading day;
(3) if the Company calls any or all of the 2026 Notes for redemption, at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day prior to the applicable redemption date; or
(4) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events.
On or after June 15, 2026, holders of the 2026 Notes may convert all or any portion of their 2026 Notes at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, regardless of the foregoing circumstances. If a fundamental change occurs (as set forth in the indenture governing the 2026 Notes), each holder of the 2026 Note shall have the right, at such holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such their Notes, or any portion of the principal amount, at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the conditions allowing holders of the 2026 Notes to convert have not been met and there were no changes to the initial conversion price of the 2026 Notes. The 2026 Notes are not convertible during the six months ended June 30, 2021 and are classified as long-term debt.
In accounting for the 2026 Notes after adoption of ASU 2020-06, the 2026 Notes are accounted for as a single liability. The carrying amount of the liability component for 2026 Notes is $218.0 million as of June 30, 2021, with principal of $224.5 million, net of unamortized issuance costs of $6.5 million. The costs related to the 2026 Notes are being amortized to interest expense over the contractual term of the 2026 Notes at an effective interest rate of 1.05%.
The 2026 Notes and related interest expense consist of the following:
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
Liability:
Principal$224,500 
Unamortized issuance costs(6,480)
     Net carrying amount$218,020 

Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)20212021
Contractual interest expense$276 $337 
Amortization of issuance costs295 359 
Total interest expense$571 $696 

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2026 Capped Calls
In connection with the pricing of the 2026 Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions with certain counterparties (the “2026 Capped Calls”). The 2026 Capped Calls have an initial strike price of $60.14 per share, subject to certain adjustments, which correspond to the initial conversion price of the 2026 Notes. The 2026 Capped Calls have initial cap prices of $77.96 per share, subject to certain adjustments. Conditions that cause adjustments to the initial strike price of the 2026 Capped Calls mirror conditions that result in corresponding adjustments for the 2026 Notes. The 2026 Capped Calls are generally intended to reduce or offset the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon any conversion of the 2026 Notes with such reduction or offset, as the case may be, subject to a cap based on the cap price. For accounting purposes, the 2026 Capped Calls are separate transactions, and not part of the terms of the 2026 Notes. As these transactions meet certain accounting criteria, the 2026 Capped Calls are recorded in stockholders' equity at an amount of $17.4 million and are not accounted for as derivatives. In connection with the partial exercise of the overallotment option and the issuance by the Company of $24.5 million of 2026 Notes on April 5, 2021, the Company entered into $1.9 million of additional privately negotiated capped calls with the same terms as the initial capped calls.
Convertible Senior Notes due 2023
In May 2018, the Company issued $143.8 million aggregate principal amount of 1.50% Convertible Senior Notes due May 15, 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), including $18.8 million aggregate principal amount of such notes pursuant to the exercise in full of options granted to the initial purchasers. The 2023 Notes are unsecured, unsubordinated obligations and bear interest at a fixed rate of 1.50% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on November 15, 2018. The total net proceeds from the offering, after deducting initial purchase discounts and estimated debt issuance costs, were approximately $138.9 million.
In the first quarter of 2021, the Company used part of the net proceeds from the issuance of the 2026 Notes to retire $102.9 million aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes in privately-negotiated transactions for consideration of $102.9 million in cash and 1,277,731 shares of the Company’s common stock (the "2023 Note Repurchase Transactions"). The Company separately settled the accrued interest of approximately $0.5 million associated with the retired 2023 Notes in cash.
Out of the common stock issued, the Company provided additional issuance of 46,216 shares of the Company’s common stock not provided for under the original conversion terms of the 2023 Notes to induce the holders of the 2023 Notes to agree to the retirement. The Company used cash to settle the principal of the retired 2023 Notes and issued common stock to settle the conversion spread.

The 2023 Note Repurchase Transactions met the requirements to be accounted for as an induced conversion. Under the induced conversion guidance, the total fair value of the additional cash and common stock issued to induce conversion is recognized as an inducement expense. The remaining cash and common stock consideration issued under the original terms of the 2023 Notes are accounted for under the general conversion accounting guidance. The 2023 Note Repurchase Transactions resulted in a $2.1 million inducement loss equal to the fair value of the additional common stock issued for inducement and the difference of approximately $1.6 million between the carrying amount of the 2023 Notes retired, including unamortized debt issuance cost of $1.6 million, and the cash consideration paid and the par amount of the common stock issued was recorded in additional paid-in capital.

Each $1,000 principal amount of the remaining 2023 Notes is initially convertible into 31.0073 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “2023 Notes Conversion Option”), which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $32.25 per share, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events. The 2023 Notes will be convertible at the option of the holders at any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding February 15, 2023, only under the following circumstances:
(1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on June 30, 2018 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the last reported sale price of the Company common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price of the 2023 Notes on each applicable trading day;
(2) during the 5 business day period after any 10 consecutive trading day period in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the 2023 Notes for each day of that 10 day consecutive trading day period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock and the conversion rate of the 2023 Notes on such trading day; or
(3) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events (as set forth in the indenture governing the 2023 Notes).
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On or after February 15, 2023 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders may convert their 2023 Notes at any time, regardless of the foregoing circumstances. Upon conversion, the Company will pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s common stock, at the Company’s election. If certain specified fundamental changes occur (as set forth in the indenture governing the 2023 Notes) prior to the maturity date, holders of the 2023 Notes may require the Company to repurchase for cash all or any portion of their Notes at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2023 Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date. In addition, if specific corporate events occur prior to the applicable maturity date, the Company will increase the conversion rate for a holder who elects to convert their notes in connection with such a corporate event in certain circumstances. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the conditions allowing holders of the 2023 Notes to convert have not been met and there were no changes to the initial conversion price of the 2023 Notes. The 2023 Notes are not convertible during the six months ended June 30, 2021 and are classified as long-term debt.
Prior to the adoption of the ASU 2020-06 on January 1, 2021 and in accounting for the issuance of the 2023 Notes, the 2023 Notes were separated into liability and equity components. The carrying amount of the liability component was calculated by measuring the fair value of a similar debt instrument that does not have an associated conversion feature. The carrying amount of the equity component representing the 2023 Conversion Option was $33.4 million and was determined by deducting the fair value of the liability components from the par value of the 2023 Notes. The equity component was recorded in additional paid-in-capital and are not re-measured as long as they continue to meet the conditions for equity classification. The excess of the principal amount of the liability component over its carrying amount (the “Debt Discount”) was amortized to interest expense over the contractual term of the 2023 Notes at an effective interest rate of 7.6%.
Prior to the adoption of the ASU 2020-06 on January 1, 2021 and in accounting for the debt issuance costs of $4.9 million related to the 2023 Notes, the Company allocated the total amount incurred to the liability and equity components of the 2023 Notes based on their relative values. Issuance costs attributable to the liability component were $3.8 million and were amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the contractual term of the 2023 Notes. Issuance costs attributable to the equity components were netted with the equity component in additional paid-in-capital.
The Company elected to early adopt ASU 2020-06 as of January 1, 2021 based on a modified retrospective transition method. Under such transition, prior-period information has not been retrospectively adjusted.
In accounting for the 2023 Notes after adoption of ASU 2020-06, the 2023 Notes are accounted for as a single liability. The carrying amount of the liability component for 2023 Notes is $40.3 million as of June 30, 2021, with principal of $40.8 million, net of debt issuance cost of $0.5 million. The issuance costs related to the 2023 Notes are being amortized to interest expense over the contractual term of the 2023 Notes at an effective interest rate 2.19%.
The 2023 Notes and related interest expense consist of the following:
(in thousands)June 30,
2021
December 31,
2020
Liability:
Principal$40,804 $143,750 
Unamortized debt discount(17,411)
Unamortized issuance costs(539)(1,963)
     Net carrying amount$40,265 $124,376 
Stockholders’ equity:
Debt discount for conversion option$$33,350 
Issuance costs(1,136)
Net carrying amount$$32,214 

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Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Contractual interest expense$153 $539 $190 $1,078 
Amortization of debt discount1,590 3,149 
Amortization of issuance costs70 179 88 355 
Total interest expense$223 $2,308 $278 $4,582 

The total estimated fair value of the 2023 and 2026 Notes (“the Notes”) as of June 30, 2021 was approximately $270.0 million.The fair value was determined based on the closing trading price per $100 of the Notes as of the last day of trading for the period. The fair value of the Notes is primarily affected by the trading price of the Company’s common stock and market interest rates. Based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock of $39.85 on June 30, 2021, the if-converted value of the Notes of $199.2 million was less than their principal amount.     
2023 Capped Calls
In connection with the pricing of the 2023 Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions with certain counterparties, the “2023 Capped Calls.” The 2023 Capped Calls entered into with the 2023 Notes are still outstanding and each have an initial strike price of approximately $32.25 per share, subject to certain adjustments, which correspond to the initial conversion price of the 2023 Notes. The 2023 Capped Calls have initial cap prices of $38.94 per share, subject to certain adjustments. The 2023 Capped Calls cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, approximately 4.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock. Conditions that cause adjustments to the initial strike price of the Capped Calls mirror conditions that result in corresponding adjustments for the 2023 Notes. The 2023 Capped Calls are generally intended to reduce or offset the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon any conversion of the 2023 Notes with such reduction or offset, as the case may be, subject to a cap based on the cap price. For accounting purposes, the 2023 Capped Calls are separate transactions, and not part of the terms of the 2023 Notes. As these transactions meet certain accounting criteria, the 2023 Capped Calls are recorded in stockholders' equity and are not accounted for as derivatives. The cost of $8.9 million incurred in connection with the 2023 Capped Calls was recorded as a reduction to additional paid-in capital. The 2023 Capped Calls were not impacted by the 2023 Note Repurchase Transactions and continue to remain outstanding.
The net impact to the Company’s stockholders' equity, included in additional paid-in capital, of the above components of the 2023 Notes is as follows:
(in thousands)December 31,
2020
Conversion option$33,350 
Purchase of capped calls(8,907)
Issuance costs(1,136)
7.TotalCommitments and Contingencies$23,307 

Impact on Earnings Per Share
Prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06, the Company used the treasury stock method for calculating any potential dilutive effect of the conversion spread of its 2023 Notes. Under the treasury stock method, in periods when the Company reports net income, the Company is required to include the effect of additional shares that may be issued under the 2023 Notes when the price of its’ common stock exceeds the conversion price. The conversion spread on the 2023 convertible senior notes had an anti-dilutive impact during the six months ended June 30, 2020, since the average market price of the Company’s common stock during the period exceeded the initial conversion price per share for the 2023 Notes and the Company was in a net loss position.
After the adoption of ASU 2020-06, the Company uses the if-converted method for calculating any potential dilutive effect of its 2023 Notes and 2026 Notes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. Under this method, diluted earnings per share would generally be calculated assuming that all the 2023 and 2026 Notes were converted solely into 5.1 million shares of common stock at the beginning of the reporting period, unless the result would be antidilutive. The potential shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the 2023 and 2026 Notes were excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share because their effect would have been anti-dilutive as of June 30, 2021.

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9.Commitments and Contingencies
Non-cancelable Material Commitments
The Company is required to purchase unused, non-cancelable, non-returnable raw material inventory that was purchased by its contract manufacturers based on committed finished goods orders from the Company, certain long lead-time raw materials based on the Company’s forecast and current work-in-progress materials. As of SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and December 31, 2016, approximately $4.72020, approximately $9.7 million and $5.4 and $6.1 million, respectively, of such inventory was purchased and held by the third-party manufacturers which was subject to these purchase guarantees.
Leases
The Company leases office space for its headquarters and subsidiaries under non-cancelable operating leases, which will expire between December 2017 and March 2022. The Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease period, and has accrued for rent expense incurred but not paid. Facilities rent expense was $0.6 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Facilities rent expense was $1.9 million and $1.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.
Future minimum lease payments at September 30, 2017 under non-cancelable operating leases are as follows:
(in thousands)Operating leases
2017 (remaining three months)$583
20182,205
20192,030
20201,687
20211,595
2022402
Total minimum lease payments$8,502

Indemnifications
The Company undertakes, in the ordinary course of business, to (i) defend customers and other parties from certain third-party claims associated with allegations of trade secret misappropriation, infringement of copyright, patent or other intellectual property rights, tortious damage to persons or property or breaches of certain Company obligations relating to confidentiality (e.g., safeguarding protected health information) and (ii) indemnify and hold harmless such parties from certain resulting damages, costs and other liabilities. The term of these undertakings may be perpetual and the maximum potential liability of the Company under certain of these undertakings is not determinable. Based on its historical experience, the Company believes the liability associated with these undertakings is minimal.
The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers that may require the Company to indemnify its directors and officers against liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers, other than

liabilities arising from willful misconduct of the individual. The Company currently has directors and officers insurance. As there has been no significant history of losses, no expense accrual has been made.
Litigation
From time to time, the Company may be involved in lawsuits, claims, investigations and proceedings, consisting of intellectual property, commercial, employment and other matters which arise in the ordinary course of business. The Company defends itself vigorously against any such claims. Although the outcome of these matters is currently not determinable, management expects that any losses from existing matters that are probable or reasonably possible of being incurred as a result of these matters would not be material to the financial statements as a whole.


10.Stock-based Compensation and Awards
Valuation Assumptions
Compensation expense for all share-based payment awards, including stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), and performance stock units (“PSUs”), is measured based on the estimated fair value of the award on the grant date over the related vesting or performance periods.
We estimate the fair value of our stock-based awards as follows:
Restricted Stock Units. The fair value of restricted stock units is determined based on the quoted market price of our common stock on the date of grant.

Performance Stock Units. Performance stock units consist of grants of performance-based restricted stock units to certain members of executive management that vest contingent upon the achievement of pre-determined market and service conditions (referred to herein as “performance stock units”). The fair value of our performance stock units is estimated using a Monte-Carlo simulation model which is a probabilistic approach for calculating the fair value of the awards. The Monte-Carlo simulation is a statistical technique used, in this instance, to simulate future stock prices of the Company relative to constituents in the S&P 600 Health Care Equipment and Services Index. Key assumptions for the Monte-Carlo simulation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected dividends and correlation coefficient.

Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The fair value of stock options and stock purchase rights granted pursuant to our equity incentive plans and our 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), respectively, is estimated using the Black-Scholes valuation model based on the multiple-award valuation method. Key assumptions of the Black-Scholes valuation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected term and expected dividends. The risk-free interest rate is based on U.S. Treasury yields in effect at the time of grant for the expected term of the option. Expected volatility is based on a combination of historical stock price volatility. An expected term is estimated based on historical exercise behavior, post-vesting termination patterns, options outstanding and future expected exercise behavior.
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8.Stock-based Compensation and Awards

Stock Option Activity
A summary ofThe following table summarizes the combined stock option activity under the 2000 Plan, the 2006 Plan and the 2012 Plan and non-plan stock option agreements for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017 is presented below:2021:
 Options outstanding
 Number of Options Weighted Average Exercise PriceWeighted average remaining contractual termAggregate intrinsic value
  (in years)(in thousands)
Outstanding at December 31, 20162,436,845
 $10.71
5.09$20,643
Options granted
 
  
Options exercised(1,034,525) 6.91
  
Options canceled(19,604) 12.14
  
Outstanding at September 30, 20171,382,716
 $13.55
5.64$24,641
Options Outstanding
Number of optionsWeighted average exercise priceWeighted average remaining contractual termAggregate intrinsic value
(in years)(in thousands)
Outstanding at December 31, 2020299,031 $15.58 2.68$7,761 
Options exercised(99,167)16.20 
Options canceled(9,431)16.77 
Outstanding at June 30, 2021190,433 $15.19 2.22$4,696 
At SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there was $0.7 million of0 unrecognized compensation cost related to options. We did 0t grant any stock options which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 0.91 years.during the six months ended June 30, 2021. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there were 1,292,3101,742,713 shares that remained available for future issuance of options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) or other equity awards under the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In March 2012, the Company’s 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) was approved. During the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021 employees purchased 89,81377,538 shares of common stock at an average purchase price of $13.87.$27.68 per share. During the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016,2020 employees purchased 87,937126,046 shares of common stock at an average purchase price of $8.93.$15.60 per share. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there were 654,3271,198,413 shares available for future issuance under the ESPP.

The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to calculate the fair value of periodic ESPP offerings on their offer date. The following Black-Scholes option-pricing assumptions were used for each respective period for the ESPP:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
2021202020212020
Expected term (in years)0.500.500.500.50
Volatility54.2% - 55%50% - 54.14%54.2% - 55%50.0% - 54.14%
Risk-free interest rate0.03% - 0.12%0.15% - 1.59%0.03% - 0.12%0.15% - 1.59%
Dividend yield0%0%0%0%
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 2017 2016 2017 2016
Expected term (in years)0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
Volatility30.0% 38.0% 30.0% - 32.0% 38.0% - 41.5%
Risk-free interest rate1.02% 0.38% 0.61% - 1.02% 0.33% - 0.38%
Dividend yield0% 0% 0% 0%
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Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units
The Company issues RSUs and PSUs as part of its compensation plans. A summary of RSU and PSU activity for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 is presented below:
Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units
Number of sharesWeighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
Outstanding at December 31, 20202,140,763 $25.16 
Granted708,213 38.94 
Vested(879,615)24.50 
Forfeited(138,662)27.82 
Outstanding at June 30, 20211,830,699 $30.61 
 Restricted Stock Units
 Number of shares Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
Outstanding at December 31, 20162,128,735
 $13.17
Granted956,477
 24.97
Vested(815,466) 12.06
Forfeited(104,107) 16.86
Outstanding at September 30, 20172,165,639
 $18.62
At SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, there was $32.3$47.2 millionof unrecognized compensation cost related to RSUs and PSUs, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.952.01 years.
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 the Company granted 145,877 PSUs to certain executives under the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”). PSUs are contingent on the achievement of our comparative market-based returns. On the date of grant, the fair value of the total shareholder return (TSR) component of the PSUs is estimated using a Monte Carlo valuation model. The PSUs will vest over a three-year performance period. The number of shares the PSU holder receives is based on the extent to which the corresponding market conditions have been achieved. For awards subject to service and market conditions, the number of shares of our stock issued pursuant to the award can range from 0% to 200% of the target amount. Compensation expense for awards with performance-based and service-based conditions is recognized over the requisite service period. These grants were reduced from shares of common stock reserved for issuance under stock option plans as if 200% of the target amount were achieved. The assumptions used to determine the fair value are level 3 fair value measurements which include unobservable inputs that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the assets or liabilities that are supported by little or no market data.
The assumptions used in the Monte Carlo valuation model to value the PSUs were as follows:
Grant Date
June 1, 2020
Grant date fair value per share$30.70 
Expected term (in years)3
Volatility42.68 %
Risk-free interest rate0.20 %
Dividend yield%
Allocation of Stock-Based Compensation Expense
The following table presents the allocation of stock-based compensation expense:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Cost of revenue$1,395 $1,114 $2,479 $2,087 
Research and development1,233 1,023 2,233 1,989 
Sales and marketing2,432 1,961 4,757 3,821 
General and administrative2,063 2,268 4,516 4,310 
Total stock-based compensation$7,123 $6,366 $13,985 $12,207 

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 Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016 2017 2016
Cost of revenue$749
 $298
 $2,117
 $891
Research and development507
 287
 1,542
 817
Sales and marketing1,653
 1,102
 4,697
 3,390
General and administrative1,809
 1,213
 4,848
 3,493
Total stock-based compensation$4,718
 $2,900
 $13,204
 $8,591



9. Segments
The Company has two operating segments, which are both reportable business segments: (i) Product and (ii) Service, bothTable of which are comprised of Vocera’s and its wholly-owned subsidiaries’ results of operations.
The following table presents a summary of the operating segments:
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 Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016 2017 2016
Revenue       
Product$23,249
 $19,303
 $63,940
 $50,807
Service19,051
 14,452
 53,105
 40,877
Total revenue42,300
 33,755
 117,045
 91,684
        
Cost of Revenue       
Product7,208
 6,042
 20,424
 16,435
Service9,241
 6,253
 28,358
 18,037
Total cost of revenue16,449
 12,295
 48,782
 34,472
        
Gross profit       
Product16,041
 13,261
 43,516
 34,372
Service9,810
 8,199
 24,747
 22,840
Total gross profit25,851
 21,460
 68,263
 57,212
        
Operating expenses28,563
 22,729
 84,500
 64,863
Interest income (expense), net and other136
 121
 411
 347
Loss before income taxes$(2,576) $(1,148) $(15,826) $(7,304)
11.Income Taxes

10.Income Taxes
The Company recorded a $1.1$0.3 million and $0.2$0.1 million provision for income taxes for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and 2016,2020, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 was primarily due to foreign income and withholding taxes. The expense for the six months ended June 30, 2020 was primarily due to the accretion of the deferred tax liability associated with goodwill from previous acquisitions, taxes on international operations and state income taxes. The provision for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was primarily due toindefinite lived intangibles, taxes on international operations and state income taxes.
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, the Company has provided a valuation allowance against certain federal and state deferred tax assets. Management continues to evaluate the realizability of deferred tax assets and the related valuation allowance. If management’smanagement's assessment of the deferred tax assets or the corresponding valuation allowance were to change, the Company would record the related adjustment to income during the period in which management makes the determination.
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017, there were no material changes to either2021, the nature orstatute of limitations lapsed on the amountsFIN48 liabilities in the amount of $50 thousand.
On March 11, 2021 the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”) was enacted and signed into law. The Act contains several tax provisions, including expansion of employment tax credits. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the uncertainAct on its consolidated financial statements, but does not expect the tax positions previouslyprovisions will result in a material impact to the Company’s tax position.

12.Business Acquisitions
Acquisition of PatientSafe Solutions, Inc.
On May 4, 2021, the Company acquired all of the outstanding equity interest of PatientSafe for approximately $36.0 million in cash, net of cash acquired of $0.2 million. PatientSafe provides a clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) solution for smartphones that is engineered to run in the cloud. The solution is designed for hospitals and health systems that have invested in their electronic health record (EHR) mobile workflow software, are smartphone centric, and prefer a cloud-based CC&C solution. The solution enhances care team mobility and efficiency at the point of care through effective, reliable communication and clinical workflows. Nurses can document to the EHR while receiving filtered, prioritized alarm and task notifications. Physicians can communicate with the nurses and team members supporting their patients. Two-way communication with a hospital’s EHR system enables clinicians to complete certain documentation and manage patient-centric communication from their smartphones. Moving forward the PatientSafe solutions will be marketed and sold under the Vocera Edge brand.
The following table presents the preliminary fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date:
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(in thousands, except useful lives)Estimated Fair ValueEstimated Useful life (in years)
Assets
Current assets$1,527 
Restricted cash598 
Fixed assets, net208 
Operating lease right-of-use asset2,089 
Other assets74 
Intangibles assets
Customer relationships3,290 8
Developed technology5,260 3
Backlog3,710 4
Goodwill25,678 
Total assets$42,434 
Liabilities
Current liabilities3,642 
Deferred revenue1,774 
Operating lease liabilities, long term906 
Other long-term liabilities112 
Total liabilities6,434 
Net assets acquired$36,000 
The estimated fair values of identifiable intangible assets were primarily determined using discounted cash flow models. The estimation of the fair value of the intangible assets required the use of valuation techniques and entailed consideration of all the relevant factors that might affect the fair value, such as present value factors and estimates of future revenues and costs. The amortization of developed technology and backlog is recorded in "cost of revenues" for product and the amortization for the yearremaining intangibles is recorded in "sales and marketing" expenses on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

The excess of the acquisition consideration over the fair values of the underlying net assets acquired was recorded as goodwill. Goodwill is largely attributed to the synergy of PatientSafe’s proprietary solutions with the Company’s existing customer base, dedicated sales force and cross selling opportunities with the Company’s other solutions. Goodwill is not amortized but is instead tested for impairment at least annually or more frequently if indicators of impairment are present. The goodwill acquired as part of the acquisition is 0t deductible for tax purposes.

The Company incurred $1.7 million of acquisition-related costs in the three months ended December 31, 2016.June 30, 2021 that were expensed as incurred. These costs are recorded as general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of operations.

The acquisition did not result in material contributions to revenue or net loss in the condensed consolidated financial statements in the six months period ended June 30, 2021. Additionally, pro forma financial information is not provided for consolidated revenue and net income as such amounts attributable to PatientSafe were insignificant to the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements taken as a whole.



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Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Forward-Looking Statements

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in our other Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016,2020, filed with the SEC on March 15, 2017.February 25, 2021. These discussions contain forward-looking statements reflecting our current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties which are subject to safe harbors under the Securities Act of 1933, as

amended, or the Securities Act, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, expectations regarding demand and acceptance for our technologies, growth opportunities and trends in the market in which we operate, prospects and plans and objectives of management. The words “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the risks set forth in Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Business Overview
We are a provider of secure, integrated, intelligent communication and clinical workflow solutions, focused on empowering mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, retail, energy, education and other mission-critical mobile work environments, in the United States and internationally. Today, theThe significant majority of our business is generated from sales of our solutions in the healthcare market to help our customers improveenhance quality of care, safety, patient safety and staff experience and increaseimprove operational efficiency.
We primarily sell products,devices, software, maintenancesubscriptions and support, and professional services directly to end users. Total revenue increased 27.7%$16.8 million from $91.7 $88.0 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20162020 to $117.0$104.8 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017.2021. Our total deferred revenue and backlog was $218.4 million as of June 30, 2021 compared to $173.9 million as of December 31, 2020. For the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, we recorded a net loss of $16.9$9.9 million compared to a net loss of $7.5$13.9 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Our diverse customer base ranges from large hospital systems to small local hospitals, as well as other healthcare facilities and customers in non-healthcare markets. We do not rely on any one customer for a substantial portion of our revenue. While we have international customers in other English speakingEnglish-speaking countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, SingaporeNew Zealand and parts of the Middle East, most of our customers are located in the United States. International customers represented 8.6%represented 10.0%, 10.6% 10.7% and 8.8%8.7% of our revenue in the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, and the years ended December 31, 20162020 and 2015,2019, respectively. We believe certain international markets represent attractive growth opportunities. We are exploring plans to expand our presence in other English-speaking markets and enter non-English speaking markets.
U.S. hospital spending on information technology is influenced by regulatory requirements and reimbursement earn-back incentives from federal healthcare reform. In addition, as patient volumes and reimbursement levels continue to fluctuate for many healthcare providers, hospitals exercise strong expense limits and reductions, also impacting capital purchases and departmental operating budgets through which our solutions are purchased. Despite this volatility, healthcare providers are emphasizing the importance of investing in solutions for communication and care coordination, a trend that we believe is favorable for us.
We outsource the manufacturing of our hardware products. Our outsourced manufacturing model allows us to scale our business without the significant capital investment and on-going expenses required to establish and maintain manufacturing operations. We work closely with our contract manufacturer,manufacturers, including Sercomm and SMTC Corporation, and other key suppliers to manage the procurement, quality and cost of components. We seek to maintain an optimal level of finished goods inventory to meet our forecast for sales and unanticipated shifts in sales volume and mix.
In the fourthcurrent quarter, of 2016, we acquired allPatientSafe for $36.0 million, net of $0.2 million of cash acquired. For further discussion on the acquisition, please refer to Note 12 in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.
COVID-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of the outstanding equitynovel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, has evolved into a global pandemic and public health emergency. Many federal, state and local governments and private entities have mandated various restrictions, including travel restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been exposed to the virus. Since our last filing, COVID-19 infections have continued and are increasing in many geographies of the world. Although there is an increase in vaccinations, infection rates could continue to increase due to a variety of factors, including new variants of the disease.
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, our business has been impacted in several ways, including the following:
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We have taken measures to protect the health and safety of our employees, primarily by shifting the majority of our employees to remote work.
Our access to our healthcare customers’ locations for sales and implementation activities remains limited in some cases. The sales cycle and implementation timeline for broader strategic deals in some cases has been elongated as they shifted their primary focus to preparing for and responding to the pandemic.
We have experienced some delays in receiving parts due to supplier and shipping issues.
Overall, the outbreak did not have a material impact on our operating results or business in the six months ended June 30, 2021. While future impacts cannot be predicted at this time, the shift in hospital resources, attention to treatment of COVID-19 patients and declines in hospital revenues may result in reduced demand for our products and solutions, longer sales cycles and/or delays of customer implementations, which could negatively impact our financial condition.
We have generated operating cash flows in the past and our $291.9 million in cash and short-term investments provides us with ample liquidity to meet our current needs. However, given the dynamic nature of this situation, we cannot accurately estimate the impacts of COVID-19 on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
Convertible Senior Notes
In March 2021, we issued $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes, due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”). We used part of the net proceeds from the issuance of the 2026 Notes to retire approximately $102.9 million aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes in privately-negotiated transactions for consideration of $102.9 million in cash and 1,277,731 shares of common stock (the "2023 Note Repurchase Transactions"). We separately settled the accrued interest of Extension Healthcare for $52.5 million in cash. In addition, $2.5 million has been set aside for retention bonuses for key employees of whichapproximately $0.5 million was paidassociated with the retired 2023 Notes in December 2016cash.
In connection with the 2026 Notes, we granted to the initial purchasers an overallotment option under the purchase agreement to purchase up to an additional $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of the 2026 Notes to cover overallotments within a 30-day period. The purchasers partially exercised the overallotment option on April 5, 2021 and $2.0we issued an additional $24.5 million will be paidof the 2026 Notes.
In connection with the pricing of the 2026 Notes, we entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions with certain counterparties, the “2026 Capped Calls”. The 2026 Capped Calls have an initial strike price of approximately $60.14 per share, subject to certain adjustments, which correspond to the initial conversion price of the 2026 Notes. The 2026 Capped Calls have initial cap prices of $77.96 per share, subject to certain adjustments. We used proceeds of $15.5 million to purchase the Capped Calls, which were recorded as a reduction to additional paid-in capital. Additionally, in $1.0connection with the partial exercise of the overallotment option and the issuance by us of $24.5 million incrementsof 2026 Notes, on April 5, 2021, we entered into $1.9 million of additional privately negotiated capped calls. The 2023 Capped Calls were not impacted by the 2023 Note Repurchase Transactions and continue to remain outstanding. For further discussion on the Capped Calls, please refer to Note 8 in the fourth quarter of 2017 and 2018.
Extension Healthcare was a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment. Extension Healthcare was known in the market for its clinical integration software solution Engage, which features an advanced clinical rules engine that unifies data from multiple sources simultaneously, enables prioritization of notifications, adds patient context, and sends messagesnotes to the right care team members on their mobile devices. The Engage platform allows clinicianscondensed consolidated financial statements.
We expect to be away fromuse the bedside while staying informed about their patients.remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include funding research and development, increasing working capital, acquisitions or investments in complementary businesses, products or technologies and capital expenditures.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
There have been no changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016,2020, except as disclosed in Note 1 to the condensed consolidated financial statements “Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncement.”Pronouncements”.

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Results of Operations
The following table presents our results of operations for the periods indicated. The period-to-period comparisons of results are not necessarily indicative of results for future periods.
Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
Consolidated statement of operations data:2017 2016 2017 2016Consolidated statement of operations data:2021202020212020
(unaudited)(unaudited)
(in thousands)Amount % Revenue Amount % Revenue Amount % Revenue Amount % Revenue(in thousands)Amount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% Revenue
Revenue               Revenue
Product$23,249
 55.0 % $19,303
 57.2 % $63,940
 54.6 % $50,807
 55.4 % Product$28,344 50.5 %$23,951 50.6 %$50,952 48.6 %$41,801 47.5 %
Service19,051
 45.0
 14,452
 42.8
 53,105
 45.4
 40,877
 44.6
Service27,836 49.5 23,396 49.4 53,896 51.4 46,219 52.5 
Total revenue42,300
 100.0
 33,755
 100.0
 117,045
 100.0
 91,684
 100.0
Total revenue56,180 100.0 47,347 100.0 104,848 100.0 88,020 100.0 
Cost of revenues  
   
   
   
Cost of revenueCost of revenue
Product7,208
 17.0
 6,042
 17.9
 20,424
 17.5
 16,435
 17.9
Product7,541 13.5 7,710 16.3 14,497 13.9 14,074 16.0 
Service9,241
 21.9
 6,253
 18.5
 28,358
 24.2
 18,037
 19.7
Service12,383 22.0 9,694 20.5 23,210 22.1 20,217 23.0 
Total cost of revenues16,449
 38.9
 12,295
 36.4
 48,782
 41.7
 34,472
 37.6
Total cost of revenue Total cost of revenue19,924 35.5 17,404 36.8 37,707 36.0 34,291 39.0 
Gross profit25,851
 61.1
 21,460
 63.6
 68,263
 58.3
 57,212
 62.4
Gross profit36,256 64.5 29,943 63.2 67,141 64.0 53,729 61.0 
Operating expenses:  
   
   
   
Operating expenses:
Research and development6,644
 15.7
 4,286
 12.7
 20,944
 17.9
 12,686
 13.8
Research and development12,006 21.4 9,349 19.7 22,356 21.2 18,381 20.9 
Sales and marketing15,831
 37.4
 13,305
 39.4
 45,789
 39.1
 38,078
 41.5
Sales and marketing18,425 32.8 15,998 33.8 36,095 34.5 32,961 37.4 
General and administrative6,088
 14.4
 5,138
 15.2
 17,767
 15.2
 14,099
 15.4
General and administrative9,064 16.1 6,923 14.6 16,339 15.6 13,314 15.1 
Total operating expenses28,563
 67.5
 22,729
 67.3
 84,500
 72.2
 64,863
 70.7
Total operating expenses39,495 70.3 32,270 68.1 74,790 71.3 64,656 73.4 
Loss from operations(2,712) (6.4) (1,269) (3.7) (16,237) (13.9) (7,651) (8.3)Loss from operations(3,239)(5.7)(2,327)(4.9)(7,649)(7.3)(10,927)(12.4)
Interest income177
 0.4
 196
 0.5
 410
 0.4
 573
 0.5
Interest income295 0.5 913 1.9 641 0.6 2,033 2.3 
Interest expenseInterest expense(794)(1.4)(2,308)(4.9)(1,571)(1.4)(4,582)(5.2)
Other income (expense), net(41) (0.1) (75) (0.2) 1
 
 (226) (0.2)Other income (expense), net1,544 2.7 210 0.4 (1,002)(1.0)(381)(0.4)
Loss before income taxes(2,576) (6.1) (1,148) (3.4) (15,826) (13.5) (7,304) (8.0)Loss before income taxes(2,194)(3.9)(3,512)(7.5)(9,581)(9.1)(13,857)(15.7)
Provision for income taxes(309) (0.7) (49) (0.1) (1,050) (0.9) (183) (0.2)Provision for income taxes(88)(0.2)44 0.1 (334)(0.4)(81)(0.1)
Net loss$(2,885) (6.8)% $(1,197) (3.5)% $(16,876) (14.4)% $(7,487) (8.2)%Net loss$(2,282)(4.1)%$(3,468)(7.4)%$(9,915)(9.5)%$(13,938)(15.8)%
Revenue:
Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
20212020Change20212020Change
(in thousands)AmountAmountAmount%AmountAmountAmount%
Product revenue
Device$16,256 $17,100 $(844)(4.9)%$31,529 $31,003 $526 1.7 %
Software12,088 6,851 5,237 76.4 19,423 10,798 8,625 79.9 
Total product28,344 23,951 4,393 18.3 50,952 41,801 9,151 21.9 
Service revenue
Subscription and support22,641 18,994 3,647 19.2 43,600 37,063 6,537 17.6 
Professional services and training5,195 4,402 793 18.0 10,296 9,156 1,140 12.5 
Total service27,836 23,396 4,440 19.0 53,896 46,219 7,677 16.6 
Total revenue$56,180 $47,347 $8,833 18.7 %$104,848 $88,020 $16,828 19.1 %

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 2017 2016 Change 2017 2016 Change
(in thousands)Amount Amount Amount% Amount Amount Amount%
Product revenue             
Device$16,084
 $14,106
 $1,978
14.0% $45,042
 $36,540
 $8,502
23.3%
Software7,165
 5,197
 1,968
37.9
 18,898
 14,267
 4,631
32.5
Total product23,249
 19,303
 3,946
20.4
 63,940
 50,807
 13,133
25.8
 
            
Service revenue             
Maintenance and support13,746
 11,037
 2,709
24.5
 38,181
 31,762
 6,419
20.2
Professional services and training5,305
 3,415
 1,890
55.3
 14,924
 9,115
 5,809
63.7
Total service19,051
 14,452
 4,599
31.8
 53,105
 40,877
 12,228
29.9
Total revenue$42,300
 $33,755
 $8,545
25.3% $117,045
 $91,684
 $25,361
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Three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.

2020.
Total revenue increased $8.5$8.8 million, or 25.3%18.7%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Product revenue increased $3.9$4.4 million, or 20.4%18.3%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. Device revenue increased $2.0decreased $0.8 million, or 14.0%4.9%, and software revenue increased $2.0$5.2 million, or 37.9%76.4% for the three months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2020. The decrease in device revenue was driven primarily by decreased unit volume sales of Badges and related accessories. The increase in software revenue was mainly a result of an increase in the number of software licenses delivered to our customers.
Service revenue increased $4.4 million, or 19.0%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016. The increase in device revenue, which related entirely to our Communication solution, was driven primarily by an increase in unit sales of badges, third party devices and related accessories from new customers making initial purchases and existing customers expanding deployments within their facilities to new departments and users. The increase in software revenue is primarily due to increased sales of our communications software licenses and expansions of existing customer licenses.
Service revenue increased $4.6 million, or 31.8%, for the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016. Software maintenance2020. Subscription and support revenue increased $2.7$3.6 million, or 24.5%19.2%, and professional services and training revenue increased $1.9$0.8 million, or 55.3%18.0%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. The increase in software maintenancesubscription and support revenue was primarily the result of having a larger customer base purchasing software maintenance contracts. The increase in professional services and training revenue was due to increasesan increase in implementation services for our solutions. We are seeing an increase in our professional service revenue as our deployments become larger and more complex.
NineSix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Total revenue increased $25.4$16.8 million, or 27.7%19.1%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Product revenue increased $13.1$9.2 million, or 25.8%21.9%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. Device revenue increased $8.5$0.5 million, or 23.3%1.7%, and software revenue increased $4.6$8.6 million, or 32.5%,79.9% for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. The increase in device revenue which related entirely to our Communication solution, was driven primarily by an increase in unitincreased percentage of sales of badges, third partythe Smartbadge out of total devices and related accessories from new customers making initial purchases and existing customers expanding deployments within their facilities to new departments and users.sold. The increase in software revenue is primarily due to increased saleswas mainly a result of our communicationsan increase in the number of software licenses and expansions of existing customer licenses.delivered to our customers.
Service revenue increased $12.2$7.7 million, or 29.9%16.6%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016. Software maintenance2020. Subscription and support revenue increased $6.4$6.5 million, or 20.2%17.6%, and professional services and training revenue increased $5.8$1.1 million, or 63.7%12.5%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. The increase in software maintenancesubscription and support revenue was primarily the result of having a larger customer base purchasing software maintenance contracts. The increase in professional services and training revenue was due to increasesan increase in implementation services for our solutions.

Cost of revenue:
Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
2017 2016 Change 2017 2016 Change20212020Change20212020Change
(in thousands)Amount Amount Amount% Amount Amount Amount%(in thousands)AmountAmountAmount%AmountAmountAmount%
Cost of revenue             Cost of revenue
Product$7,208
 $6,042
 $1,166
19.3% $20,424
 $16,435
 $3,989
24.3%Product$7,541 $7,710 $(169)(2.2)%$14,497 $14,074 $423 3.0 %
Service9,241
 6,253
 2,988
47.8
 28,358
 18,037
 10,321
57.2
Service12,383 9,694 2,689 27.7 23,210 20,217 2,993 14.8 
Total cost of revenue$16,449
 $12,295
 $4,154
33.8% $48,782
 $34,472
 $14,310
41.5%Total cost of revenue$19,924 $17,404 $2,520 14.5 %$37,707 $34,291 $3,416 10.0 %
             
Gross margin             Gross margin
Product69.0% 68.7% 0.3 %  68.1% 67.7% 0.4 % Product73.4 %67.8 %5.6 %71.5 %66.3 %5.2 %
Service51.5% 56.7% (5.2)%  46.6% 55.9% (9.3)% Service55.5 %58.6 %(3.1)%56.9 %56.3 %0.6 %
Total gross margin61.1% 63.6% (2.5)%  58.3% 62.4% (4.1)% Total gross margin64.5 %63.2 %1.3 %64.0 %61.0 %3.0 %
Three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Cost of product revenue increased $1.2decreased $0.2 million, or 19.3%2.2%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This was in line with the growth in product revenue which wasprimarily driven by higher device volume.

Producta decrease in the unit volume of Badges and related accessories sold and a decrease in inventory costs. For the same comparative periods, product gross margin increased primarily as a percentageresult of producta higher proportion of software revenue versus device revenue.
Cost of service revenue increased in$2.7 million, or 27.7%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016 due primarily to absorption of fixed manufacturing overhead costs.
2020. Cost of service revenue increased $3.0 million, or 47.8%, for the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016. The cost of service revenue increased primarily due to higher compensation and benefits as a result of increased headcount related to supportcore business as well as the growth inacquisitions of PatientSafe and Ease. For the numbersame comparative periods,
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service gross margin as a percentage of service revenue decreased forprimarily as a result of an increase in costs related to the threeacquisitions of PatientSafe and Ease.
Six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016 due to increased headcount to support the growth in the number of deployments of our solutions.
Nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016.2020.
Cost of product revenue increased $4.0$0.4 million, or 24.3%3.0%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This was in line with the growth in product revenue which wasprimarily driven by higher unit volumesan increase in amortization related to the acquisitions of both internalEase and third party devices. ProductPatientSafe. For the same comparative periods, product gross margin increased primarily as a percentageresult of product revenue increased in the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 due primarily to higher software sales and absorption of fixed manufacturing overhead costs.revenue.
Cost of service revenue increased $10.3 $3.0 million, or 57.2%14.8%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016. The cost of2020. For the same comparative periods, service revenue increased primarily due to increased headcount to support the growth in the number of deployments of our solutions and the impact of our recent acquisition. Service gross margin as a percentage of service revenue decreased for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016increased primarily as a result of an increase in subscription and support revenue. In addition, cost of service revenue increased due to increased compensation and benefits as a result of increased headcount and costs related to supportcore business and the growth in the numberacquisitions of deployments of our solutions.

PatientSafe and Ease.
Operating expenses:
Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
2017 2016 Change 2017 2016 Change20212020Change20212020Change
(in thousands)Amount Amount Amount% Amount Amount Amount%(in thousands)AmountAmountAmount%AmountAmountAmount%
Operating expenses             Operating expenses
Research and development$6,644
 $4,286
 $2,358
55.0% $20,944
 $12,686
 $8,258
65.1%Research and development$12,006 $9,349 $2,657 28.4 %$22,356 $18,381 $3,975 21.6 %
Sales and marketing15,831
 13,305
 2,526
19.0
 45,789
 38,078
 7,711
20.3
Sales and marketing18,425 15,998 2,427 15.2 36,095 32,961 3,134 9.5 
General and administrative6,088
 5,138
 950
18.5
 17,767
 14,099
 3,668
26.0
General and administrative9,064 6,923 2,141 30.9 16,339 13,314 3,025 22.7 
Total operating expenses$28,563
 $22,729
 $5,834
25.7% $84,500
 $64,863
 $19,637
30.3%Total operating expenses$39,495 $32,270 $7,225 22.4 %$74,790 $64,656 $10,134 15.7 %
Three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Research and development expense. Research and development expense increased $2.4$2.7 million, or 55.0%28.4%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This increase was primarily driven fromdue to an increase of $1.9 million in compensation, benefits and hiring costs associated with increased headcount related to our recent acquisition which resulted in a $1.8and an increase of $0.7 million increase in compensation. The increase was also driven by a $0.2 million increase in outside services a $0.1 million increase in travel and a $0.1 million increase in supplies.development.
Sales and marketing expense. Sales and marketing expense increased $2.5$2.4 million, or 19.0%15.2%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This increase was primarily driven fromdue to an increase of $1.8 million in compensation, benefits and hiring costs associated with increased headcount, and intangibles related to our recent acquisition which resulted in a $2.0 million increase in compensation and a $0.3 million increase in amortization expense. Therelated to the acquisition of Ease and PatientSafe and an increase was also driven by a $0.2of $0.3 million increase in outside services.marketing development costs.
General and administrative expense. General and administrative expense increased $1.0$2.1 million, or 18.5%30.9%, for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This increase was primarily due to a $1.0 millionan increase in compensation, benefits and hiring costs of $1.2 million due to increased headcount, from our recent acquisition.severance and retention costs related to the acquisition of PatientSafe and an increase of $0.8 million in outside services.
NineSix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Research and development expense. Research and development expense increased $8.3$4.0 million or 65.1%21.6%, for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This increase was primarily driven fromdue to an increase of $2.8 million in compensation, benefits and hiring costs associated with increased headcount, related to our recent acquisition which resulted in a $6.4an increase of $0.9 million increase in compensation, $0.7 million increase in outside services and adevelopment, and an increase of $0.3 million increase in travel expense.research and development equipment.
Sales and marketing expense. Sales and marketing expense increased $7.7$3.1 million or 20.3%,9.5% for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This was primarily due to an increase in compensation, benefits and hiring costs of $3.0 million resulting from higher headcount, an increase of $0.5 million in amortization related to the acquisition of Ease and PatientSafe, and an increase of $0.3 million in outside services. This increase was primarily driven from increased headcount and intangibles related to our recent acquisition which resulted in a $5.8 million increase in compensation and a $1.0

million increase in amortization expense. The increase was also drivenpartially offset by a $0.6 million increasedecrease in outside services and a $0.3 million increase in travel.travel expense of $0.7 million.
General and administrative expense. General and administrative expense increased $3.7$3.0 million or 26.0%,22.7% for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This increase was primarily due to a $3.6 millionan increase in compensation, benefits and hiring costs of $1.8 million due to increased headcount, from our recent acquisition. Theseverance and retention costs related to the acquisition of PatientSafe and achievement of performance related compensation targets and an increase was also driven by a $0.1of $1.2 million increase in travel.outside services.

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Interest Incomeincome and Other Expense, Net:income (expense), net:
Three months ended September 30, Nine months ended September 30,Three months ended June 30,Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016 Change
 2017 2016 Change
(in thousands)20212020Change20212020Change
Interest income$177
 $196
 $(19) $410
 $573
 $(163)Interest income$295 $913 $(618)$641 $2,033 $(1,392)
Interest expenseInterest expense(794)(2,308)1,514 (1,571)(4,582)3,011 
Other income (expense), net(41) (75) 34
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 (226) 227
Other income (expense), net1,544 210 1,334 (1,002)(381)(621)
Three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020.
Interest income. Interest income did not significantly changedecreased $0.6 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016.2020. This decrease was due to earning a lower rate of return on our investments.
Interest expense. For the three months ended June 30, 2021 we had interest expense of $0.8 million resulting from the amortization of debt issuance costs and the contractual interest incurred on the issuance of the Notes. This decrease of $1.5 million from June 30, 2020 was primarily due to the impact of the adoption of ASU 2020-06 Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity which eliminates the debt discount and amortization. The amortization of the debt discount was previously accounted for as part of interest expense and represented $1.6 million of the total interest expense for the three months ended June 30, 2020.
Other income (expense), net. The change in other income in the three months ended June��30, 2021 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2020 was primarily due to the change in the fair value adjustment of the Ease contingent consideration included in earnings.
Six months endedJune 30, 2021 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2020.
Interest income. Interest income decreased $1.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2020. This decrease was due to earning a lower rate of return on our investments.
Interest expense. For the six months ended June 30, 2021 we had interest expense of $1.6 million resulting from the amortization of debt issuance costs and the contractual interest incurred on the issuance of the Notes. This decreased $3.0 million from the six months ended June 30, 2020 which primarily due to the impact of the adoption of ASU 2020-06 Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity which eliminates the debt discount and amortization. The amortization of the debt discount was previously accounted for as part of interest expense and represented $3.2 million of the total interest expense for the six months ended June 30, 2020.
Other income (expense), net. The change in other expense in the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 compared to the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20162020 was primarily duedue to foreign exchange fluctuations.
Ninethe $2.1 million inducement loss resulting from the repurchase of the 2023 Notes partially offset by the change in the fair value adjustment of the Ease contingent consideration included in earnings of $0.8 million for the six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016.2021 .
Interest income. Interest income did not significantly change for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Other income (expense), net. The change in other expense in the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 was primarily due to foreign exchange fluctuations.


Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, we had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $67.5$291.9 million.
In March 2021, we issued $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes and no debt. we used part of the net proceeds from the issuance of the 2026 Notes to retire approximately $102.9 million aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes. In addition, in April 2021, the purchasers partially exercised the overallotment option and we issued an additional $24.5 million aggregate principal amount of the 2026 Notes. For additional information, see Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
We believe that our existing sources of liquidity will satisfy our working capital and capital requirements for at least the next twelve months and the foreseeable future.

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 Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)2017 2016
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow Data:   
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$(5,173) $7,649
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities(16,065) 11,972
Net cash provided by financing activities1,045
 907
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents$(20,193) $20,528
Six months ended June 30,
(in thousands)20212020
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow Data:
Net cash provided by operating activities$11,448 $6,861 
Net cash used in investing activities(94,060)(1,197)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities88,714 (1,982)
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$6,102 $3,682 
Operating activities
Cash used inprovided by operating activities was $5.2 $11.4 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017, due to2021. Cash provided by operating activities was the result of a net loss of $16.9$9.9 million and a reductiondecrease in lease-related performance obligationsliabilities of $0.6 million, offset by non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $13.2$14.0 million, and depreciation andnon-cash lease expense of $1.2 million, amortization of $5.8debt issuance costs of $0.6 million, amortization of $4.6 million for property and equipment and acquired intangible assets.assets and inducement loss of $2.1 million resulting from the repurchase of our 2023 Notes as well as $1.6 million of other items primarily driven by the accretion of investments. With respect to changes in assets and liabilities, we experiencedexperienced a decrease in accounts receivable of $10.0 million, an increase of $0.1 million in other receivables, a decrease of $1.3$1.4 million in inventories, an increase of $0.9$1.1 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, an increase in deferred commissions of $2.6 million, a decrease of $0.5 million in accounts payable, a decrease of $5.3 million in accrued payroll and other liabilities and a $4.1$4.0 million increasedecrease in deferred revenue. These factors were offset by certain cash outflows, including an increase in accounts receivable of $11.3 million, which was attributable to current period billings being in excess of collections on prior periods’ invoices, an increase of $1.5 million in prepaid expenses and other assets and a decrease of $0.4 million in accounts payable.
Cash provided by operating activities was $7.6$6.9 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2016,2020, due to a net loss of $7.5$13.9 million, a reduction in lease-related performance obligations of $0.6 million, partially offset by non-cash items such as stock-based compensation of $8.6$12.2 million, amortization of debt discount and issuance costs of $3.5 million, a decrease in lease-related performance liabilities of $0.6 million and depreciation and amortization of $2.3$2.8 million for property and equipment and acquired intangible assets. With respect to changes in assets and liabilities, we experienced a decrease in accounts receivable of $4.8$14.3 million, which was attributable to collections on prior periods’ invoices exceeding the current period billings, an increase of $0.2$0.3 million in other receivables, an increase of $3.9 million in inventories, an increase of $0.6 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, an increase in deferred commissions of $0.6 million, a decrease of $1.0 million in accounts payable, an increase of $1.2 million in accrued payroll and other liabilities and a $2.2$7.5 million increasedecrease in deferred revenue. These factors were offset by certain cash outflows, including an increase of $1.5 million in inventories, an increase of $0.7 million in prepaid expenses and other assets and a decrease of $0.4 million in accounts payable.
Investing activities
Cash used in investing activities was $16.1was $94.1 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, due to $46.0$127.2 million in purchases of short-term investments and $35.4 million used in the acquisition of PatientSafe offset by $69.4 million of short-term investment maturities, offset by $59.6 million for purchases of short-term investments.maturities. An additional $2.4$0.9 million of cash was used for the purchase of property and equipment and leasehold improvements.
Cash provided byused in investing activities was $12.0$1.2 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20162020, due to $82.9$72.1 million of short-term investment maturities, $14.4 million from sales of short-term investments, offset by $86.3 million for purchases of short-term investments, offset by $93.9 million and $4.9 million of short-term investment maturities and investment sales, respectively.investments. An additional $3.9$1.4 million of cash was used for the purchase of property and equipment and leasehold improvements.
Financing activities
Cash provided by financing activities was $1.0was $88.7 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, attributable to $7.1$217.8 million of net proceeds from convertible senior notes, $2.1 million of proceeds from issuance of common stock from the employee stock purchase plan, $0.2 million of cash from lease-related performance obligations, and $1.6 million of proceeds from stock option exercises, offset by $102.9 million related to the repayment of a portion of our 2023 Notes, a $17.4 million payment for the purchase of capped calls related to our 2026 Notes and $1.2$12.7 million cash paid for employee taxes collected via net share settlement.

Cash used in financing activities was $2.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2020, attributable to $1.3 million of proceeds from stock option exercises, $2.0 million of proceeds from issuance of common stock from the employee stock purchase plan and $0.3 million of cash from lease-related performance obligations. This was partially offset by $7.7$5.6 million cash paid for employee taxes paid oncollected via net share settlement.
Cash provided by financing activities was $0.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016, attributable to $1.1 million of proceeds from stock option exercises, $0.8 million of proceeds from issuance of common stock from the employee stock purchase plan and $1.5 million of cash from lease-related performance obligations. This was partially offset by a $2.5 million cash paid for employee taxes paid on net share settlement.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated organizations or financial partnerships, such as structured finance or special purpose entities that would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. Refer to Note 7 to the condensed consolidated financial statements, “Commitments and Contingencies,” for a discussion of our non-cancelable purchase commitments.
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while maximizing yields without significantly increasing risk. To achieve this objective, historically we have invested in money market funds. With the proceeds from our two public offerings in 2012 and the issuance of our convertible senior notes in 2018 and 2021, we have invested in a broader portfolio of high credit quality short-term securities. To minimize the exposure due to an adverse shift in interest rates, we maintain an average portfolio duration of one year or less.
Our primary exposure to market risk is interest income and expense sensitivity, which is affected by changes in the general level of the interest rates in the United States. However, because of the short-term nature of our interest-bearing securities, a 10% change in market interest rates would not be expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
Historically our operations have consisted of research and development and sales activities in the United States. As a result, our financial results have not been materially affected by factors such as changes in foreign currency exchange rates or economic conditions in foreign markets. We are developingconsidering plans to expand our international presence. Accordingly, we expect that our exposure to changes in foreign currency exchange rates and economic conditions may increase in future periods.
Item 4.Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective disclosure controls and procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives.
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision of, and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act. Based on our evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of SeptemberJune 30, 2017.2021.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting which occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q which has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II: OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.Legal Proceedings
Item 1.Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be involved in lawsuits, claims, investigations and proceedings, consisting of intellectual property, commercial, employment and other matters which arise in the ordinary course of business.

Item 1A.Risk Factors
Item 1A.Risk Factors
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Our business, financial condition, results of operations or future prospects could be materially and adversely harmed if any of the following risks, or other risks or uncertainties that are not yet identified or that we currently believe are immaterial, actually occur. The trading price of our common stock could decline due to any of these risks or uncertainties, and, as a result, you may lose all or part of your investment.
Summary of Risk Factors

Our business is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those risks discussed at-length below. These risks include, among others, the following:
We have incurred significant losses in the past and will likely experience losses in the future.
We depend on sales in the healthcare market for the majority of our revenue, and a decrease in sales in the healthcare market would harm our business.
Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which may cause our revenue and operating results to fluctuate significantly.
If we fail to offer high-quality products and services, our operating results and our ability to sell these in the future will be harmed.
We primarily compete in the rapidly evolving and competitive healthcare market, and if we fail to effectively respond to competitive pressures, our business and operating results could be harmed.
We depend on some sole source and limited source suppliers, and if we are unable to source our components from them, our business and operating results could be harmed.
Because we depend on contract manufacturers and original design manufacturers, our operations could be harmed and we could lose sales if we encounter problems with these manufacturers.
If we fail to forecast our manufacturing requirements accurately or fail to properly manage our inventory with our contract manufacturers, we could incur additional costs or experience manufacturing delays that could impact the timing of our revenue recognition and adversely affect our operating results.
The COVID-19 outbreak has had a material impact on the U.S. and global economies and could have a material adverse impact on our employees, suppliers, manufacturing and customers, which could adversely and materially impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business has gone through cycles of expansion, relative stability and contraction, and if we are not able to manage such cycles effectively, our operating results may suffer.
Our revenue and operating results have fluctuated, and are likely to continue to fluctuate, making our quarterly results difficult to predict, which may cause us to miss analyst expectations and may cause the price of our common stock to decline.
Developments in the healthcare industry and governing regulations have negatively affected and may continue to negatively affect our business.
If we fail to increase market awareness of our brand and solutions, and expand our sales and marketing operations, our business could be harmed.
Failure to protect our information technology infrastructure against cyber-based attacks, network security breaches, service interruptions, or data corruption could significantly disrupt our operations and adversely affect our business and operating results.
Our international operations subject us, and may increasingly subject us in the future, to operational, financial, economic and political risks abroad.
Our efforts to sell our solutions in non-healthcare markets may not be successful.
If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position could be harmed, or we could be required to incur significant expenses to enforce our rights.
We have indebtedness in the form of convertible senior notes. The provisions of indenture for the 2023 notes and 2026 notes (the Notes), accounting method for the Notes and capped call transaction entered into related to the Notes could have a material effect on our operating results, value of the Notes and our common stock or may deter or prevent a business combination.

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Risks related to our business and industry
We have incurred significant losses in the past and will likely experience losses in the future.
We have incurred significant losses in the past and reported a net lossloss of $16.9$9.9 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017.2021. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2017,2021, we had an accumulated deficit of $144.4$154.7 million. IfIf we cannot make consistent progress toward future profitability, our business and our stock price may be adversely affected.
Our ability to be profitable in the future depends upon continued demand for our solutions from existing and new customers. Further market adoption of our solutions including increased penetration within our existing customers, depends upon our ability to improve quality of care, andenhance patient and staff satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity, and bring value to customers outside of healthcare. In addition, our profitability will be affected by, among other things, our ability to execute on our business strategy, the timing and size of orders, the pricing and costs of our solutions, competitive offerings, macroeconomic conditions affecting the health care industry and the extent to which we invest in sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative resources.


We depend on sales toin the healthcare market for substantially allthe majority of our revenue, and a decrease in sales in the healthcare market would harm our business.


To date, substantially all of our revenue has been derived from sales to the healthcare market and, in particular, hospitals. Sales to the healthcare market accounted for 98%, 97%98% and 98%96% of our revenue for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and for the years ended December 31, 20162020 and 2015,2019, respectively. We anticipate that sales to the healthcare market will represent a significant portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future.
Most of our solutions require a substantial upfront investment by new customers. The cost of the initial deployment depends on the number of users and departments involved, the size and age of the hospital and the condition of the existing wireless infrastructure, if any, within the hospital. Even if hospital personnel determine that our solutions provide compelling benefits over their existing communications methods, their hospitals may not have, or may not be willing to spend, the resources necessary to install and maintain wireless infrastructure to initially deploy and support our solutionsolutions or expand our solutionsolutions to other departments or users. Hospitals face significant budget constraints from the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have had to postpone elective procedures that provide a significant portion of their revenue. Hospital budgets are also constrained by unpredictable patient population trends and commercial reimbursements, and increasing demands from, and competition for, patients. In addition, both governmental and commercial hospitals are experiencing lower Medicare reimbursement rates and higher compliance demands, and penalties fromwhich add to these budget pressures. Also as part of the implementation oftax reform law that came into effect in December 2017, the tax penalty for violating the individual health insurance mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) and now face new uncertainty aswas set to zero effective in 2019, essentially repealing it. It is uncertain if there will be changes to the President ofACA, but there have been attempts in the United States and members of the legislature have announced their intention to attemptpast to repeal or reformamend the ACA, as well as continue to undertake other healthcare reform.reforms. As a consequence weof these regulatory and other factors, hospitals may experiencedelay or reduce their spending, which may cause slowdowns and deferral of orders for our solution thatsolutions, or customers may choose other less expensive solutions, both of which could negatively impact our sales. We might not be able to sustain or increase our revenue from sales of our solutions, or achieve the growth rates that we envision, if hospitals continue to face significant budgetary constraints and reduce their spending on communications systems.
While we are seeking
Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which may cause our revenue and operating results to increasefluctuate significantly.

Our sales cycles can be lengthy and unpredictable. Our sales efforts involve educating our customers about the use and benefits of our solutions, to non-healthcare customers, we do not anticipate non-healthcare markets to representincluding the technical capabilities of our solutions and the potential cost savings and productivity gains achievable by deploying them. Customers typically undertake a significant portionevaluation process, which frequently involves not only our solutions but also their existing communications methods and those of our competitors and can result in a lengthy sales cycle that sometimes exceeds twelve months. We spend substantial time, effort and money in our sales efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce sales. Similarly, our increasing dependence on larger, hospital-wide deployments may increase fluctuations in our revenue forand operating results because the foreseeable future.failure to complete a significant sale, or the loss of a large customer, will have a greater impact on those results.In addition, purchases of our solutions are frequently subject to budget constraints and shifts, multiple approvals, and unplanned administrative, processing and other delays. We have experienced and may continue to experience elongated sales cycles due to ongoing uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as past and future healthcare reform legislation, the impact of shifting federal government budgets, changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and potential future statutes and rulemaking.



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If we fail to offer high-quality servicesproducts and support for any of our solutions,services, our operating results and our ability to sell those solutionsthese in the future will be harmed.


Our ability to sell our solutions is dependent upondepends on our professional servicesability to offer high-quality product and technical support teams providing high-quality servicesservices. Our solutions incorporate complex technology, are deployed in a variety of complex hospital environments and support. must interoperate with many different types of devices and hospital systems. While we test the components of our solutions for defects and errors prior to release, we or our customers may not discover a defect or error until after we have deployed our solution, integrated it into the hospital environment and our customer has commenced general use of the solution. In addition, our solutions in some cases are integrated with hardware and software offered by “middleware” vendors to interoperate with nurse call systems, device alarms and other hospital systems. Our software may be partnered with third party software to provide for potential joint solutions with such third party. Our software may also be deployed on third party devices, including devices we resell, which creates additional complexity because we share control of the customer experience. If we cannot successfully integrate our solutions with these vendors as needed or if any hardware or software of these vendors contains any defect or error, then our solutions may not perform as designed, or may exhibit a defect or error.
Our professional services team assists our customers with their wireless infrastructure assessment, clinical workflow design, communication solution configuration, clinical integration, training and project management during the pre-deployment and deployment stages. Once our solutions are deployed within a customer’s facility, the customer typically depends on our technical support team to help resolve technical issues, assist in optimizing the use of our solutions and facilitate adoption of new functionality. In some cases we also use third parties to provide professional services to our customers, which means that we have less control over how these services are performed. If we do not effectively assist our customers in deploying our solutions, succeed in helping our customers quickly resolve technical and other post-deployment issues, or provide effective ongoing support services, our ability to expand the use of our solutions with existing customers and to sell our solutions to new customers will be harmed. If deployment of our solutions is deemed unsatisfactory, we may incur significant costs to attain and sustain customer satisfaction or, in extreme cases, our customers may choose not to deploy our solution.solutions. As we rapidly hire new services and support personnel, we may inadvertently hire underperforming people who will have to be replaced, or fail to effectively train such employees, leading in some instances to slower growth, additional costs and poor customer relations. In addition, the failure of channel partners or other outsourced professional support contractors to provide high-quality services and support in markets outside the United States could also harm sales of our solutions.
Any defects or errors in, or which are attributed to our solutions, or to products or services we resell, could result in:
delayed market acceptance of our affected solutions;
loss of revenue or delay in revenue recognition;
loss of customers or inability to attract new customers;
diversion of engineering or other resources for remedying the defect or error;
damage to our brand and reputation;
delay in delivery of information;
increased service and warranty costs, including potential replacement costs for product recalls or returns; and
legal actions by our customers and hospital patients, including product liability claims.
If any of these occur, our operating results and reputation could be harmed.
As we continue to pursue opportunities for larger deals that have greater technical complexity, including deals that include the Engage software,require more complex integrations with our customer’s workflows, we may experience a longer time period for the dealsour solutions to deploy and as a result, our revenue recognition for these deals may be delayed. Additionally, as we enter agreements with new and existing customers for larger and more complex deals across multiple sites, we have been, and may continue to be, required to agree to customer acceptance and cancellation clauses. DelaysWith acceptance clauses, delays may occur in obtaining customer acceptance regardless of the quality of our products and services, and may cause us to defer revenue recognition where such acceptance provisions are substantive in nature, or they may require us to incur additional professional services or other costs in an effort to obtain such customer acceptance.

Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which Cancellation clauses may cause our revenue and operating results to fluctuate significantly.

Our sales cycles can be lengthy and unpredictable. Our sales efforts involve educating our customers about the use and benefits of our solutions, including the technical capabilities of our solutions and the potential cost savings and productivity gains achievable by deploying them. Customers typically undertake a significant evaluation process, which frequently involves not only our solutions but also their existing communications methods and those of our competitors, and can result in a lengthy sales cycle of nine to twelve months or more. We spend substantial time, effort and money in our sales efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce sales. In addition, purchases of our solutions are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals, and unplanned administrative, processing and other delays. For example, we experienced elongated sales cycles due to uncertainty surrounding healthcare reform and lower hospital admission trends in 2013 and 2014, and it is possible that the current uncertainty about healthcare will extend hospital sales cycles. Hospitals in the U.S. continue to face significant uncertainty over the continuing impact of federal government budgets, and continuing changes in the implementation and deadlines for compliance with the ACA, the potential repeal or reform of the ACA, changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, Federal budgeting in the VA and DoD, and other healthcare reform legislation, as well as potential future statutes and rulemaking.

Our business has gone through cycles of expansion, relative stability and contraction, and if we are not able to manage such cycles effectively, our operating results may suffer.

We have experienced periods of expansion, relative stability and contraction in our revenues and operations in the past. Such fluctuation has placed, and may continue to place, strains on our management systems, infrastructure and other resources. Especially during growth periods, we hire additional direct sales, professional services and marketing personnel domestically and internationally, acquire complementary businesses, technologies or assets, and increase our investment in research and development. Our future operating results depend to a large extent on our ability to successfully implement such plans and manage such investments. To do so successfully we must, among other things:
manage our expenses in line with our operating plans and current business environment;
maintain and enhance our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures;
integrate acquired businesses, technologies or assets;
manage operations in multiple locations and time zones; and
develop and deliver new solutions and enhancements to existing solutions efficiently and reliably.

We expect to incur costs associated with the investments made to support our business strategy before the anticipated benefits or the returns are realized, if at all. If we are unable to grow our business or manage our future growth effectively, we may not be able to take advantage of market opportunities or develop new solutions or enhancements to existing solutions. We may also fail

to satisfy customer requirements, maintain quality, execute our business plan or respond to competitive pressures, which could result in lower revenue and a decline in the share price of our common stock.

Our revenue and operating results have fluctuated, and are likely to continue to fluctuate, making our quarterly results difficult to predict, which may cause us to miss analyst expectations and may result in the price of our common stock to decline.

Our operating results have been and may continue to be difficult to predict, even in the near term, and are likely to fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
Comparisons of our revenue and operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. You should not rely on our past results ascanceling an indication of our future performance. Each of the following factors, among others, could cause our operating results to fluctuate from quarter to quarter:
the financial health of our healthcare customers and budgetary constraints on their ability to upgrade their communications;
changes in the regulatory environment affecting our healthcare customers, including impediments to their ability to obtain reimbursement for their services;
our ability to expand our sales and marketing operations;
our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses;
the announcement of new significant contracts or relationships;
the procurement and deployment cycles of our healthcare customers and the length of our sales cycles;
changes in customer deployment timelines;
variations in the amount of orders booked in a prior quarter but not delivered until later quarters;
our mix of solutions and the varying revenue recognition rules that apply;
pricing, including discounts by us or our competitors;
our ability to expand into non-healthcare markets;
our ability to develop significant new reseller relationships and maintain existing reseller relationships;
the financial health of our resellers;
the implementation of new accounting rules, including changes in rules regarding the recognition of revenue;
our ability to successfully deploy our solutions in a timely manner;
our ability to forecast demand and manage lead times for the manufacture of our solutions; and
our ability to develop and introduce new solutions and features to existing solutions that achieve market acceptance.

If we do not achieve the anticipated strategic or financial benefits from our acquisitions or if we cannot successfully integrate them, our business and operating results could be harmed.

We have acquired, and in the future may acquire, complementary businesses, technologies or assets that we believe to be strategic. We may not achieve the anticipated strategic or financial benefits, or be successful in integrating any acquired businesses, technologies or assets. If we cannot effectively integrate the acquired business and products into our business, we may not achieve market acceptance for, or significant revenue from, these new solutions.
Integrating newly acquired businesses, technologies and assets could strain our resources, could be expensive and time consuming, and might not be successful. Our recent acquisitions expose us, and we will be further exposed, if we acquire or invest in additional businesses, technologies or assets, to a number of risks, including that we may:
experience technical issues as we integrate acquired businesses, technologies or assets into our existing communications solutions;
encounter difficulties leveraging our existing sales and marketing organizations, and direct sales channels, to increase our revenue from acquired businesses, technologies or assets;
find that the acquisition does not further our business strategy, we overpaid for the acquisition or the economic conditions underlying our acquisition decision have changed;
have difficulty retaining the key personnel of acquired businesses;
suffer disruption to our ongoing business and diversion of our management’s attention as a result of transition or integration issues and the challenges of managing geographically or culturally diverse enterprises;
experience unforeseen and significant problems or liabilities associated with quality, technology and legal contingencies relating to the acquisition, such as intellectual property or employment matters; and
incur substantial costs to integrate the acquired business.

We completed the acquisition of Extension Healthcare in October 2016, which is a significantly larger acquisition than any that we have completed to date, and each of the factors identified above present challenges to our achieving the success that we anticipate from this acquisition. We used a significant portion of our available cashorder for our recent purchase of Extension Healthcare. If we

were to proceed with one or more additional significant acquisitions inhardware, software and services, which the consideration included cash, we could be required to use a substantial portion of our available cash. To the extent we issue shares of capital stock or other rights to purchase capital stock, including options and warrants, the ownership of existing stockholders would be diluted. In addition, acquisitions may result in the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities, large write-offs, or other unanticipated costs, events or circumstances, any of which could harm our operating results.
In addition, from time to time we may enter into negotiations for acquisitions that are not ultimately consummated. These negotiations could result in significant diversion of management time, as well as substantial out-of-pocket costs.

We could be required to record adjustments to our recorded asset balance for intangible assets, including goodwill, that could significantly impact our operating results.

With the acquisition of Extension Healthcare, our balance sheet now includes significant intangible assets, including goodwill and other acquired intangible assets. The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether these assets have been impaired involves significant judgment and is subject to factors and events over which we have no control. The introduction of new competitive products or services into our markets could impair the value of our intangible assets if they create market conditions that adversely affect the competitiveness of our products and services. Further, declines in our market capitalization may be an indicator that our intangible assets or goodwill carrying values exceed their fair values, which could lead to potential impairment charges that could impact our operating results.revenue.

Developments in the healthcare industry and governing regulations have negatively affected and may continue to negatively affect our business.

Substantially all of our revenue is derived from customers in the healthcare industry, in particular, hospitals. The healthcare industry is highly regulated and is subject to changing political, legislative, regulatory and other influences. Developments generally affecting the healthcare industry, including new regulations or new interpretations of existing regulations, could adversely affect spending on information technology and capital equipment by reducing funding, changing healthcare pricing or delivery or creating impediments for obtaining healthcare reimbursements, which together with declining admission trends, could cause our sales to decline and negatively impact our business. For example, the profit margins of our hospital customers are modest, and pending changes in reimbursement for healthcare costs may reduce the overall solvency of our customers or cause further deterioration in their financial or business condition.
Since 2009, three significant bills were signed into law that impact the U.S. healthcare system.  Those bills include The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, enacted under Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HITECH Act), the ACA, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Together, these acts drive substantive changes over several years to the operating processes, reimbursements and rules governing the U.S. healthcare system. Further, the President of the United States and members of the legislature have stated their intent to significantly revise, repeal or reduce funding under the ACA. Uncertainty surrounding the status of the ACA and its regulations may impact the spending of our healthcare customers, and we cannot predict the effect on our business of any new legislation and regulations that may be adopted if the ACA is significantly changed or repealed.
We believe that our healthcare customers are unsure of the impact that a number of the elements of those acts, as well as the related efforts to reform or repeal the ACA will have on their business, and cannot predict the timing and requirements of the final rules issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for these statutes, making managing their business operations more difficult.  Further, as has been experienced since 2010, as rules and agency guidance pursuant to these statutes are implemented and revised by HHS, a number of aspects of the acts have been interpreted, modified or delayed. For example, sudden changes in the rules for individuals buying insurance through state or federal health insurance exchanges, and individual and employer mandates to have and offer insurance coverage, have challenged hospitals’ abilities to forecast patient utilization and revenues, and to set operational plans and budget accordingly.
Federal budget activities also impact our customers. We believe that it is likely that additional legislative changes by Congress and rulemaking by HHS will continue. Our customers include healthcare facilities run by the Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. These potential customers have been and may continue to be impacted by budgetary and legislative actions.
In addition, many state governments are changing or expanding their healthcare laws, adding additional complexity to understanding the potential impacts.
We are unable to predict the full impact of these new and changing rules on our hospital customers and others in the healthcare industry.  Impacts of these rules have affected and could continue to affect materially our customers’ ability to budget for or purchase our products. The healthcare industry has changed significantly in recent years and we expect that significant changes

will continue to occur. We cannot provide assurance that the markets for our solutions will continue to exist at current levels or that we will have adequate technical, financial and marketing resources to react to changes in those markets.


We primarily compete in the rapidly evolving and competitive healthcare market, and if we fail to effectively respond to competitive pressures, our business and operating results could be harmed.


We believe that the primary competition for our Vocera Communication solution has consisted of traditional methods usingOur prospective customers primarily use legacy communication solutions such as wired and wireless phones, pagers and overhead intercoms. While weWe believe that our system is superior to these legacy methods, our solution requires a significant infrastructure investment by a hospital and many hospitals’ spending is severely constrained by other priorities.
methods. Manufacturers and distributors of product categories such as cellular phones, smartphone applications, pagers, mobile radios and in-building wireless telephones alsocontinue to sell their products to hospitals as components of communication solutions. Of these product categories, in-building wireless telephones and pagers represent the most significant current competition for the sale of our solution. The market for in-building wireless phones is dominated by communications companies such as Cisco Systems, Ascom and Spectralink.hospitals. In addition, the growing proliferation of smartphones and related applications, including cloud-based applications, represents another category of competitive offerings. WhileFurthermore, our clinical integrations and middleware solutions compete
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with a variety of companies that offer clinical integration technology.  Similarly we consider secure text-messaging using smartphonesmay face a feature valued by many customers, we do notdifferent set of competitors in our patient and family engagement solutions.
We believe most of our potential customers would consider that feature alone an adequate substitute for a comprehensive multi-mode communication solution. Some customers may choose solutions that are not HIPAA-compliant, given their budget constraints.
While we do not currently have athere is no directly comparable single competitor that provides a solution as richly-featured as the Vocera Communication system for the healthcare market as richly-featured as ours, but we could face such competition in the future. Potential competitors in the healthcare or communications markets include large, multinational companies with significantly more resources to dedicate to product development and sales and marketing. These companies, which may include electronic health record vendors or other large software and healthcare IT companies, may have existing relationships within the hospital, which may enhance their ability to gain a foothold in our market. CustomersFor example, some of the electronic health record vendors offer secure text messaging as an additional service and have said they plan to expand these offerings to complete more directly with us. Some customers may prefer to purchase a more highly integrated or bundled solution from a single provider or an existing supplier rather than a new supplier, regardless of performance or features. Accordingly, if we fail to effectively respond to competitive pressures, we could experience pricing pressure, reduced profit margins, higher sales and marketing expenses, lower revenue and the loss of market share, any of which would harm our business, operating results or financial condition. In addition, our acquisition of Extension Healthcare may introduce us to a broader set of competitors.

If we fail to increase market awareness of our brand and solutions, and expand our sales and marketing operations, our business could be harmed.

We intend to continue to add personnel and resources in sales and marketing as we focus on expanding awareness of our brand and solutions and capitalize on sales opportunities with new and existing customers. Our efforts to improve sales of our solutions will result in an increase in our sales and marketing expense and general and administrative expense, and these efforts may not be successful. Some newly hired sales and marketing personnel may subsequently be determined to be unproductive and have to be replaced, resulting in operational and sales delays and incremental costs. If we are unable to significantly increase the awareness of our brand and solutions or effectively manage the costs associated with these efforts, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

Failure to protect our information technology infrastructure against cyber-based attacks, network security breaches, service interruptions, or data corruption could significantly disrupt our operations and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We rely on information technology and telephone networks and systems, including the Internet, to process and transmit sensitive electronic information and to manage or support a variety of business processes and activities, including sales, billing, customer service, procurement and supply chain. We use enterprise information technology systems to record, process, and summarize financial information and results of operations for internal reporting purposes and to comply with regulatory financial reporting, legal, and tax requirements. Our information technology systems, some of which are managed by third-parties, may be susceptible to damage, disruptions or shutdowns due to computer viruses, attacks by computer hackers, failures during the process of upgrading or replacing software, databases or components thereof, power outages, hardware failures, telecommunication failures, user errors or catastrophic events. Although we have developed systems and processes that are designed to protect customer information and prevent data loss and other security breaches, including systems and processes designed to reduce the impact of a security breach at a third party vendor, such measures cannot provide absolute security. If our systems are breached or suffer severe damage, disruption or shutdown and we are unable to effectively resolve the issues in a timely manner, our business and operating results may significantly suffer and we may be subject to litigation, government enforcement actions or potential liability. Security breaches

could also cause us to incur significant remediation costs, result in product development delays, disrupt key business operations and divert attention of management and key information technology resources.


We depend on a number ofsome sole source and limited source suppliers, and if we are unable to source our components from them, our business and operating results could be harmed.


We depend on sole and limited source suppliers for several hardware components of our Vocera Communication solution,solutions, including our batteries and integrated circuits. We purchase inventory generally through individual purchase orders. Any of these suppliers could cease production of our components, cease to provide the necessary levels of support for our use of their components, experience capacity constraints, material shortages, work stoppages, epidemics or contagious diseases, such as the coronavirus outbreak, that negatively impact them and their suppliers, financial difficulties, cost increases or other reductions or disruptions in output, cease operations or be acquired by or enter into exclusive arrangements with, a competitor. For example, we have experienced, and may continue to experience periodic delays in deliveries from our suppliers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. These suppliers typically rely on purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with their suppliers, and as a result, even if available, the supplier may not be able to secure sufficient materials at reasonable prices or of acceptable quality to build our components in a timely manner.
Any of these circumstances could cause interruptions or delays in the delivery of our solutions to our customers, and this may force us to seek components from alternative sources, which may not have the required specifications, or be available in time to meet demand or on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. Any of these circumstances may also force us to redesign our solutions if a component becomes unavailable in order to incorporate a component from an alternative source.source if a component becomes unavailable.
Our solutions incorporate multiple software components obtained from licensors on a non-exclusive basis, such as voice recognition software, software supporting the runtime execution of our software platform, and database and reporting software. Our license agreements can be terminated for cause. In many cases, these license agreements specify a limited term and are only renewable beyond that term with the consent of the licensor. If a licensor terminates a license agreement for cause, objects to its renewal or conditions renewal on modified terms and conditions, we may be unable to obtain licenses for equivalent software components on reasonable terms and conditions, including licensing fees, warranties or protection from infringement claims. Some licensors may discontinue licensing their software to us or support of the software version used in our solutions. In such circumstances, we may need to redesign our solutions atwith substantial cost and time investments to incorporate alternative software components or be subject to higher royalty costs. Any of these circumstances could adversely affect the cost and availability of our solutions.
Third-party licensors generally require us to incorporate specific license terms and conditions in our agreements with our customers. If we are alleged to have failed to incorporate these license terms and conditions, we may be subject to claims by these licensors, incur significant legal costs defending ourselves against such claims and, if such claims are successful, be subject to termination of licenses, monetary damages, or an injunction against the continued distribution of one or more of our solutions.


Because we depend upon aon contract manufacturermanufacturers and original design manufacturers, our operations could be harmed and we could lose sales if we encounter problems with these manufacturers.


We do not have internal manufacturing capabilities and rely upon atwo contract manufacturer,manufacturers, Sercomm and SMTC, to produce the primary hardware component ofmake our Vocera Communication solution.wearable devices. We have entered into a manufacturing agreementagreements with Sercomm and SMTC that isare terminable by either party with advance notice and that may also be terminated for a material uncured breach. We expect to enter into additional contract manufacturing agreements as we expand our business. We also rely on original design manufacturers or ODMs,(ODMs) to produce accessories, including batteries, chargers and attachments. Any of these suppliers could cease production of our components, cease to provide the necessary levels of support for our use of their components, experience capacity constraints, material
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shortages, work stoppages, epidemics or contagious diseases that negatively impact them and their suppliers, financial difficulties, cost increases or other reductions or disruptions in output, cease operations or be acquired by, or enter into exclusive arrangements with, a competitor. If Sercomm, SMTC, or another contract manufacturer or an ODM is unable or unwilling to continue manufacturing components of our solutions in the volumes and timeframes that we require, fails to meet our quality specifications or significantly increases its prices, we may not be able to deliver our solutions to our customers with the quantities, quality and performance that they expect in a timely manner. As a result, we could lose sales and our operating results could be harmed.
Sercomm, SMTC, other contract manufacturers or ODMs may experience problems that could impact the quantity and quality of hardware components of our Vocera Communication solution, including disruptions in their manufacturing operations due to equipment breakdowns, labor strikes or shortages, component or material shortages and cost increases. SMTC, other contract manufacturers and these ODMs generally rely on purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with their suppliers, and as a result, may not be able to secure sufficient components or other materials at reasonable prices or of acceptable quality to build components of our solutions in a timely manner. The majority of the hardware components of our Vocera Communication solution are manufactured in Asia or Mexico, and adverse changes in political or economic circumstances, or health related issues such as epidemics or contagious diseases, in those locations could also disrupt our supply and quality of components of our solutions. For example, there is currently a global shortage of semiconductors that are used in a wide variety of products, including ours. Our contract manufacturers currently have an adequate supply of semiconductors to satisfy our expected demand for 2021, but a prolonged shortage could result in manufacturing delays for our products. In addition, U.S. government officials have recently proposedimposed changes in trade, tariffs, fiscal orand tax policies and may do so in the future, and any such changes in the U.S. or in other countries from which we source components of our products could adversely affect our business.

Companies occasionally encounter unexpected difficulties in ramping up production of new products, and we may experience such difficulties with future generations of our products. Sercomm, SMTC, other contract manufacturers and our ODMs also manufacture products for other companies. Generally, our orders represent a relatively small percentage of the overall orders received by Sercomm, SMTC, other contract manufacturers and these ODMs from their customers; therefore, fulfilling our orders may not be a priority in the event Sercomm, SMTC, other contract manufacturers or an ODM is constrained in its ability to fulfill all of its customer obligations. In addition, if Sercomm, SMTC, other contract manufacturers or an ODM is unable or unwilling to continue manufacturing components of our solutions, we may have to identify one or more alternative manufacturers. The process of identifying and qualifying a new contract manufacturer or ODM can be time consuming, and we may not be able to substitute suitable alternative manufacturers in a timely manner or at an acceptable cost. Additionally, transitioning to a new manufacturer may cause us to incur additional costs and delays if the new manufacturer has difficulty manufacturing components of our solutions to our specifications or quality standards.


If we fail to forecast our manufacturing requirements accurately or fail to properly manage our inventory with our contract manufacturer, we could incur additional costs andor experience manufacturing delays which canthat could impact the timing of our revenue recognition and adversely affect our operating results.


We place orders with our contract manufacturer,manufacturers, including Sercomm and SMTC, and we and SMTCour contract manufacturers place orders with suppliers based on forecasts of customer demand. Because of our international low costlow-cost sourcing strategy, our lead times are long and cause substantially more risk to forecasting accuracy than would result were lead times shorter. Our forecasts are based on multiple assumptions, each of which may introduce errors into our estimates affecting our ability to meet our customers’ demands for our solutions. We also may face additional forecasting challenges due to new product introductions, product transitions in the components of our solutions, or to our suppliers discontinuing production of materials and subcomponents required for our solutions. If demand for our solutions increases significantly, we may not be able to meet demand on a timely basis, and we may need to expend a significant amount of time working with our customers to allocate limited supply and maintain positive customer relations, or we may incur additional costs in order to source additional materials and subcomponents to produce components of our solutions or to expedite the manufacture and delivery of additional inventory. If we underestimate customer demand, we and our contract manufacturer may have inadequate materials and subcomponents on hand to produce components of our solutions, which could result in manufacturing interruptions, shipment delays, deferral or loss of revenue, and damage to our customer relationships. Conversely, if we overestimate customer demand, we and SMTCour contract manufacturers may purchase more inventory than required for actual customer orders, resulting in excess or obsolete inventory, thereby increasing our costs and harming our operating results.


If we fail to successfully develop and introduce new solutions and features to existing solutions, our revenue, operating results and reputation could suffer.

Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to develop and introduce new solutions and to add features to existing solutions that meet existing and new customer requirements. We may not be able to develop and introduce new solutions or features on a timely basis or in response to customers’ changing requirements. Similarly, our new solutions and features may not sufficiently differentiate us from competing solutions such that customers can justify deploying our solutions. We expect to incur costs associated with the development and introduction of new solutions before the anticipated benefits or the returns are realized, if
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at all. We may experience technical problems and additional costs as we introduce new features to our software platform, deploy future models of our wireless badges, or deploy new smartphone apps, which can require customers to perform software upgrades to their systems, and integrate new solutions with existing customer clinical systems and workflows. In addition, we may face technical difficulties as we expand into non-English speaking countries and incorporate non-English speech recognition capabilities into our solutions. We also may incur substantial costs or delays in the manufacture of any additional new products or models as we seek to optimize production methods and processes at our contract manufacturers. In addition, we expect that we may at least initially achieve lower gross margins on new models, while endeavoring to reduce manufacturing costs over time. If any of these problems were to arise, our revenue, operating results and reputation could suffer.

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a material impact on the U.S. and global economies and could have a material adverse impact on our employees, suppliers, manufacturing and customers, which could adversely and materially impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic and both a public health and economic emergency. Many federal, state and local governments and private entities have mandated various restrictions, including travel restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been exposed to the virus. As the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and rapidly evolving, our business may be negatively affected for a prolonged period of time. At this point, we cannot reasonably estimate the duration and severity of this pandemic, which could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
The pandemic has affected, and may continue to adversely affect, our customers’ operations, our employees and our employee productivity. It may impact the ability of our customers, subcontractors, partners, and suppliers to operate and fulfill their contractual obligations, and result in an increase in payment defaults, collection costs and/or delays or disruptions in performance. In particular, hospitals and healthcare facilities have prioritized the care and treatment of COVID-19 patients and may have restricted access for most visitors and reduced spending unrelated to COVID-19. These customers have also had to suspend elective procedures in some cases, which generate a majority of their profits, adding to their financial difficulties. While many elective procedures have resumed, it is uncertain whether consumers will seek those procedures due to concerns about COVID-19, and it is also uncertain if elective procedures will be suspended again if cases increase. In response, some have furloughed staff, including those we ordinarily work with to sell and implement our offerings.
Outside of healthcare, some of our clients in the hospitality and retail industries have suspended or modified operations until stay-at-home orders are lifted, and potentially beyond. Although stay-at-home orders have been lifted in many areas, it is uncertain whether consumers will return to those establishments and how successful these businesses will be. As a result, we have experienced delays in planned deployments and changes in customer demand, and could experience additional delays, discounts, customer payment issues, bad debt, potential terminations and unpredictability as our customers continue to respond to the challenges of treating and containing the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have also experienced some disruptions in our supply chain and our manufacturers have similarly experienced disruptions in their supply chains. To the extent our suppliers prioritize the manufacturing of other products or experience facility or business disruptions due to sick employees, stay-at-home orders, supply chain disruptions or otherwise, we may be unable to maintain a sufficient supply of our products to meet demand. Additionally, our employees, in many cases, are working remotely and using various technologies to perform their functions, which may create security risks, inefficiencies and reduced productivity, and reduce the effectiveness of our sales team.
These effects on our business, and the direct effect of the virus and the disruption on our employees and operations, may negatively impact our revenue, profit margins and liquidity. Additionally, the disruption and volatility in the global and domestic capital markets may increase the cost of capital and limit our ability to access capital.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused us to modify our business practices including employee travel, customer visits, employee work locations, and cancellation of physical participation in meetings, events and conferences which are important to support our sales approach, and we may take further actions as may be required by government authorities or that we determine are in the best interests of our employees, customers and business partners. A prolonged disruption or any further unforeseen delay in our operations or within any of our business activities could result in reduced revenue. We could also be adversely affected if government authorities impose additional restrictions or extend the length of restrictions on public gatherings, human interactions, mandatory closures, seek voluntary closures, restrict hours of operations or impose curfews, restrict the import or export of products or if suppliers issue mass recalls of products. There is no certainty that such measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks posed by the virus or otherwise be satisfactory to government authorities.
Both the health and economic aspects of the COVID-19 virus are highly fluid and the future course of each is uncertain. For these reasons and other reasons that may come to light as the coronavirus pandemic and associated protective or preventative
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measures develop, we may experience a material adverse effect on our business operations, revenues and financial condition; however, its ultimate impact is highly uncertain and subject to change.

Our business has gone through cycles of expansion, relative stability and contraction, and if we are not able to manage such cycles effectively, our operating results may suffer.

We have experienced periods of expansion, relative stability and contraction in our revenues and operations in the past. Such fluctuations have placed, and may continue to place, strains on our management systems, infrastructure and other resources. Especially during growth periods, we hire additional direct sales, professional services and marketing personnel domestically and internationally, acquire complementary businesses, technologies or assets, and increase our investment in research and development. Our future operating results depend to a large extent on our ability to successfully implement such plans and manage such investments. To do so successfully we must, among other things:
manage our expenses in line with our operating plans and current business environment;
maintain and enhance our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures;
integrate acquired businesses, technologies or assets;
manage operations in multiple locations and time zones; and
develop and deliver new solutions and enhancements to existing solutions efficiently and reliably.

We expect to incur costs associated with the investments made to support our business strategy before the anticipated benefits or the returns are realized, if any. If we are unable to grow our business or manage our future growth effectively, we may not be able to take advantage of market opportunities or develop new solutions or enhancements to existing solutions. We may also fail to satisfy customer requirements, maintain quality, execute our business plan or respond to competitive pressures, which could result in lower revenue and a decline in the share price of our common stock.

Our revenue and operating results have fluctuated, and are likely to continue to fluctuate, making our quarterly results difficult to predict, which may cause us to miss analyst expectations and may cause the price of our common stock to decline.

Our operating results have been and may continue to be difficult to predict, even in the near term, and are likely to fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control.
Comparisons of our revenue and operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. You should not rely on our past results as an indication of our future performance. Each of the following factors, among others, could cause our operating results to fluctuate from quarter to quarter:
the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;
the financial health of our healthcare customers and budgetary constraints on their ability to upgrade their communications, particularly in light of the pandemic;
the availability of government funding for healthcare facilities operated by the United States federal, state and local governments;
changes in customer purchasing patterns or sales cycles;
market acceptance of our Smartbadge and its impact on orders for our existing Badge and related software;
changes in the regulatory environment affecting our healthcare customers, including impediments to their ability to obtain reimbursement for their services;
our ability to expand and improve our sales and marketing operations;
our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, technologies or assets;
the announcement of new significant contracts or relationships;
the procurement and deployment cycles of our healthcare customers and the length of our sales cycles;
changes in how healthcare operating and capital budgets are administered by our customers;
changes in customer deployment timelines;
variations in the amount of orders booked in a prior quarter but not delivered until later quarters;
our mix of solutions and the varying revenue recognition rules that apply;
pricing, including discounts by us or our competitors;
our ability to expand into non-healthcare markets;
our ability to develop significant new reseller relationships and maintain existing reseller relationships;
the financial health of our resellers;
our ability to successfully deploy our solutions in a timely manner;
our ability to sell and integrate third-party products and services, and our customer’s satisfaction with those third-party products and services;
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our ability to forecast demand and manage lead times for the manufacture of our solutions;
our ability to develop and introduce new solutions and features to existing solutions that achieve market acceptance;
the announcement of a new product, which may cause sales cycles to lengthen;
federal government shutdowns;
occurrence of health epidemics or contagious diseases and potential effects on our business and manufacturing operations;
fluctuations in foreign currencies in the international markets in which we operate; and
future accounting pronouncements and changes in accounting policies.

If we do not achieve the anticipated strategic or financial benefits from our acquisitions or if we cannot successfully integrate them, our business and operating results could be harmed.

We have acquired, and in the future may acquire, complementary businesses, technologies or assets that we believe to be strategic. For example, in the prior fiscal year we acquired EASE, a cloud-based communication platform and mobile application, to help enhance care team communication with patients and families, and in the current year, we acquired PatientSafe, a clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) solution designed for hospitals and health systems that have invested in their EHR mobile workflow software, are smartphone centric, and may prefer a cloud-based CC&C solution. We may not achieve the anticipated strategic or financial benefits, or be successful in integrating EASE or PatientSafe or any acquired businesses, technologies or assets. If we cannot effectively integrate the acquired business and products into our business, we may not achieve market acceptance for, or derive significant revenue from, these new solutions.
Integrating newly acquired businesses, technologies and assets could strain our resources, could be expensive and time consuming, and might not be successful. Our recent acquisitions expose us, and we will be further exposed, if we acquire or invest in additional businesses, technologies or assets, to a number of risks, including that we may:
experience technical issues as we integrate acquired businesses, technologies or assets into our existing solutions;
encounter difficulties leveraging our existing sales and marketing organizations, and direct sales channels, to increase our revenue from acquired businesses, technologies or assets;
find that the acquisition does not further our business strategy, we overpaid for the acquisition or the economic conditions underlying our acquisition decision have changed;
have difficulty retaining key personnel of acquired businesses;
suffer disruption to our ongoing business and diversion of our management’s attention as a result of transition or integration issues and the challenges of managing geographically or culturally diverse enterprises;
experience unforeseen and significant problems or liabilities associated with quality, technology and legal contingencies relating to the acquisition, such as intellectual property or employment matters; and
incur substantial costs to integrate the acquired business.

If we were to proceed with one or more additional significant acquisitions in which the consideration included cash, we could be required to use a substantial portion of our available cash. To the extent we issue shares of capital stock or other rights to purchase capital stock, including options and warrants, the ownership of existing stockholders would be diluted. In addition, acquisitions may result in the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities, large write-offs, or other unanticipated costs, events or circumstances, any of which could harm our operating results.
In addition, from time to time we may enter into negotiations for acquisitions that are not ultimately consummated. These negotiations could result in significant diversion of management time, as well as substantial out-of-pocket costs.

We could be required to record adjustments to our recorded asset balance for intangible assets, including goodwill, that could significantly impact our operating results.

Our balance sheet includes significant intangible assets, including goodwill and other acquired intangible assets. The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether these assets have been impaired involves significant judgment and is subject to certain factors and events over which we have no control. The introduction of new competitive products or services into our markets could impair the value of our intangible assets if they create market conditions that adversely affect the competitiveness of our products and services. Further, declines in our market capitalization may be an indicator that our
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intangible assets or goodwill carrying values exceed their fair values, which could lead to potential impairment charges that could impact our operating results.

Developments in the healthcare industry and governing regulations have negatively affected and may continue to negatively affect our business.

Substantially all of our revenue is derived from customers in the healthcare industry, in particular, hospitals. The healthcare industry is highly regulated and is subject to changing political, legislative, regulatory and other influences. Developments generally affecting the healthcare industry, including new regulations or new interpretations of existing regulations, could adversely affect spending on information technology and capital equipment by reducing funding, changing healthcare pricing or delivery or creating impediments for obtaining healthcare reimbursements, which together with declining admission trends, could cause our sales to decline and negatively impact our business. For example, the margins of our hospital customers are modest, and potential decreases in reimbursement for healthcare costs may reduce the overall solvency of our customers or cause further deterioration in their financial or business condition.
In the past bills were signed into law that impact the U.S. healthcare system, including the ACA. Uncertainty surrounding the status of the ACA and its regulations may impact the spending of our healthcare customers, and we cannot predict the effect on our business of any new legislation and regulations that may be adopted if the ACA is significantly changed or repealed or of additional regulations.
Federal budget activities also impact our customers. Our customers include healthcare facilities run by the Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, and years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we generated approximately 19%, 18% and 17%, respectively, of our revenue from these customers. Our reseller to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs represented 25% and 33% of our accounts receivable as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. These customers have been and may continue to be impacted by budgetary and legislative actions.
In the past certain departments of the U.S. federal government temporarily stopped operating as a result of failure by the legislative and executive branches of the government to pass bills to keep them operating. There is a risk that the government could be shut down again. Any past or future shutdown may impact our US government customers’ spending decisions, as well as those of our non-US government customers. Any reduction or delay in our customers’, or potential customers’ spending decisions may result in a delay, or reduction, to our revenue.
In addition, many state governments are changing or expanding their healthcare laws, adding additional complexity to understanding the potential impacts.
We are unable to predict the full impact of these new and changing rules on our hospital customers and others in the healthcare industry. Impacts of these rules have affected and could continue to affect materially our customers’ ability to budget for or purchase our products. The healthcare industry has changed significantly in recent years and we expect that significant changes will continue to occur. We cannot provide assurance that the markets for our solutions will continue to exist at current levels or that we will have adequate technical, financial and marketing resources to react to changes in those markets.

If we fail to increase market awareness of our brand and solutions, and expand our sales and marketing operations, our business could be harmed.

We intend to continue to add personnel and resources in sales and marketing as we focus on expanding awareness of our brand and solutions and capitalize on sales opportunities with new and existing customers. Our efforts to improve sales of our solutions will result in an increase in our sales and marketing expense and general and administrative expense, and these efforts may not be successful. Some newly hired sales and marketing personnel may subsequently be determined to be unproductive and have to be replaced, resulting in operational and sales delays and incremental costs. If we are unable to significantly increase the awareness of our brand and solutions or effectively manage the costs associated with these efforts, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

Failure to protect our information technology infrastructure against cyber-based attacks, network security breaches, service interruptions, or data corruption could significantly disrupt our operations and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We rely on information technology and telephone networks and systems, including the Internet, to process and transmit sensitive electronic information and to manage or support a variety of business processes and activities, including sales, billing, customer service, procurement and our supply chain. We use enterprise information technology systems to record, process, and summarize financial information and results of operations for internal reporting purposes and to comply with regulatory
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financial reporting, legal, and tax requirements. In the ordinary course of our business, we also collect, store, process, use and transmit large amounts of confidential information, including intellectual property, protected health information, proprietary business information and personal information. Our information technology systems, some of which are managed by third-parties, may be susceptible to damage, disruptions or shutdowns due to computer viruses, attacks by computer hackers, failures during the process of upgrading or replacing software, databases or components thereof, power outages, hardware failures, telecommunication failures, user errors or catastrophic events. Most of our workforce is currently working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which also increases risks related to information security. Although we have developed systems and processes that are designed to protect confidential information and prevent data loss and other security breaches, including systems and processes designed to reduce the impact of a security breach, such measures cannot provide absolute security. The risk of a security breach or disruption or data loss, particularly through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hackers, foreign governments and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the number, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks and intrusions from around the world have increased. We may not be able to anticipate all types of security threats, and we may not be able to implement preventive measures effective against all such security threats. Although we maintain cybersecurity insurance, if our systems are breached or suffer severe damage, disruption or shutdown and we are unable to effectively resolve the issues in a timely manner, our business and operating results may significantly suffer and we may be subject to litigation, government enforcement actions or potential liability beyond our insurance coverage. In addition, such a breach may require notification to governmental agencies, the media and/or affected individuals pursuant to various federal, state (including regulations promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission and state breach notification laws) and international privacy (including GDPR) and security laws, if applicable, including HIPAA or HITECH and its implementing rules and regulations. Security breaches could also cause us to incur significant remediation costs, result in product development delays, disrupt key business operations, adversely impact customer relationships, damage our reputation and divert attention of management and key information technology resources.

During fiscal year 2020, one of our vendors, SolarWinds, was the victim of a cyberattack that inserted a vulnerability in their platform. We use SolarWinds services for our internal corporate network so this introduced a potential vulnerability in our internal systems. We have removed the vulnerable software from our network and have not found any indication that the vulnerability was exploited. There are still uncertainties about the full scope of this cyberattack and we may learn of other vulnerabilities and potential network intrusions by third parties.

If hospitals do not have and are not willing to install, upgrade and maintain the wireless and other information technology infrastructure required to effectively operate our Vocera Communication solution,solutions, then they may experience technical problems or not purchase our solutionsolutions at all.


The effectiveness of our Vocera Communication solutionsolutions depends upon the quality and compatibility of the communications environment that our healthcare customers maintain. Our solutions require voice-grade wireless or Wi-Fi,(Wi-Fi) installed through large enterprise environments, which can vary from hospital to hospital and from department to department within a hospital. Many hospitals have not installed a voice-grade wireless infrastructure. If potential customers do not have a wireless network that can properly and fully interoperate with our Vocera Communication solution,solutions, then such a network must be installed, or an existing Wi-Fi network must be upgraded or modified, for example, by adding access points in stairwells, for our Vocera Communication solutionsolutions to be fully functional. The additional costcosts of installing or upgrading a Wi-Fi network may dissuade potential customers from installing our solution.solutions. Furthermore, if changes to a customer’s physical or information technology environment cause integration issues or degrade the effectiveness of our solution,solutions, or if the customer fails to upgrade or maintain its environment as may be required for software deployments, releases orand updates, or to ensure our solution’s effectiveness, the customer may not be able to fully utilize our solutionsolutions or may experience technical problems, or these changes may impact the performance of other wireless equipment being used. If such circumstances arise, prospective customers may not purchase or existing customers may not expand their use of or deploy upgraded versions of our Vocera Communication solution,solutions, thereby harming our business and operating results.



If we fail to achieve and maintain certification for certain U.S. federal standards, our sales to U.S. government customers will suffer.


We believe that a significant opportunity exists to continue to sell our products to healthcare facilities in the Veterans Administration and Department of Defense (DoD). These customers require independent certification of compliance with specific requirements relating to encryption, security, interoperability and scalability, including Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 and, as to DoD, certification by its Joint Interoperability and Test Command and under its Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. We have received certification under certain of these standards for military-specific configurations of the Vocera Communicationour solution incorporating our badges.Badge and Smartbadge. We continue to carry out further compliance
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activities and recertifications, as required. A failure on our part to achieve and maintain compliance and to respond to new threats and vulnerabilities, both as to current products and as to new product versions, could adversely impact our revenue.


Our international operations subject us, and may increasingly subject us in the future, to operational, financial, economic and political risks abroad.

Although we derive a relatively small portion of our revenue from customers outside the United States, we believe that non-U.S. customers could represent an increasing share of our revenue in the future. For the six months ended June 30, 2021 and years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we generated 10.0%, 10.7% and 8.7% of our revenue, respectively, from customers outside of the United States, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Middle Eastern countries including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We also operate an innovation center in India and a sales office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Accordingly, we are subject to risks and challenges that we would not otherwise face if we conducted our business solely in the United States, including:
challenges incorporating non-English speech recognition capabilities into our solutions if we expand into non-English speaking markets;
difficulties integrating our solutions with wireless infrastructures with which we do not have experience;
difficulties integrating local dialing plans and applicable PBX standards;
challenges associated with delivering support, training and documentation in several languages;
difficulties in staffing and managing personnel and resellers;
the need to comply with a wide variety of foreign laws and regulations, including increasingly stringent data privacy regulations, requirements for export controls for encryption technology, employment laws, changes in tax laws and tax audits by government agencies;
political and economic instability in, or foreign conflicts that involve or affect, the countries of our customers;
the impacts associated with epidemics or contagious diseases;
adverse effects on us directly, or on our customers and suppliers, of changes in trade, fiscal or tax policies, including the imposition of tariffs;
difficulties in collecting accounts receivable and longer accounts receivable payment cycles;
exposure to competitors who are more familiar with local markets;
risks associated with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and local anti-bribery law compliance;
difficulties associated with resolving contract disputes in foreign countries with varied legal systems;
limited or unfavorable intellectual property protection in some countries; and
currency exchange rate fluctuations, which could affect the price of our solutions relative to locally produced solutions.

Any of these factors could harm our existing international business, impair our ability to expand into international markets or harm our operating results.

Our efforts to sell our communications solutions in non-healthcare markets may not be successful.


In recent years, we have actively engaged in sales efforts to customers outside the healthcare markets, including hospitality, retail, energy, education and other mobile work environments. We may not be successful in further penetrating the non-healthcare markets upon which we are initially focusing, or other new markets. To date, our Vocera Communication solution hassolutions have been selected by over 270400 customers in non-healthcare markets. Total revenue from non-healthcare customers accounted for 2%, 3%2% and 2%4% of our revenue for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and the years ended December 31, 20162020 and 2015.2019, respectively. If we cannot maintain these customers by providing communications solutions that meet their requirements, if we cannot successfully expand our communications solutions in non-healthcare markets, or if adoption of our solutions isremains slow, we may not obtain significant revenue from these markets. We may experience challenges as we expand in non-healthcare markets, including pricing pressure on our solutions, budget constraints, and technical issues as we adapt our solutions for the requirements of new markets. For example, some of our hospitality and retail customers have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and they have been forced to close locations and face significant revenue declines. Our communications solutions also may not contain the functionality required by these non-healthcare markets, may be too expensive or may not sufficiently differentiate us from competing solutions such that customers can justify deploying our solutions.

If we fail to successfully develop and introduce new solutions and features to existing solutions, our revenue, operating results and reputation could suffer.

Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to develop and introduce new solutions and features to existing solutions that meet existing and new customer requirements. We may not be able to develop and introduce new solutions or features on a timely basis or in response to customers’ changing requirements, or that sufficiently differentiate us from competing solutions such that customers can justify deploying our solutions. We may experience technical problems and additional costs as we introduce new features to our software platform, deploy future models of our wireless badges, which can require customers to perform software upgrades to their systems, and integrate new solutions with existing customer clinical systems and workflows. In addition, we may face technical difficulties as we expand into non-English speaking countries and incorporate non-English speech recognition capabilities into our Vocera Communication solution. We also may incur substantial costs or delays in the manufacture of any additional new products or models as we seek to optimize production methods and processes at our contract manufacturer. In addition, we expect that we will at least initially achieve lower gross margins on new models, while endeavoring to reduce manufacturing costs over time. If any of these problems were to arise, our revenue, operating results and reputation could suffer.


We generally recognize revenue from maintenance and support contracts and subscription arrangements over the contract term, and changes in sales may not be immediately reflected in our operating results.


We generally recognize revenue from our customer maintenancesubscription and support contracts and extended warranty contracts and subscription arrangements ratably over the contract term, which is typically 12 months, in some cases subject to an early termination right. Revenue from our maintenancesubscription and support contracts accounted for 33%42%, 34%40% and 37%38% of our revenue for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172021 and the years ended December 31, 2016 2020
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and 2015,2019, respectively. A portion of the revenue we report in each quarter is derived from the recognition of deferred revenue relating to maintenancesubscription and support contracts entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed maintenancesubscription and support, extended warranty contracts or subscription agreements by our customers in any one quarter may not be immediately reflected in our revenue for that quarter. Such a decline, however, will negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our services and potential changes in our rate of renewals may not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods.



Our success depends upon our ability to attract, integrate and retain key personnel, and our failure to do so could harm our ability to grow our business.


Our success depends, in part, on the continuing services of our senior management and other key personnel, and our ability to continue to attract, integrate and retain highly skilled personnel, particularly in engineering, sales and marketing. Competition for highly skilled personnel is intense, particularly in the Silicon Valley where our headquarters are located.technology field. If we fail to attract,create work environments viewed as attractive and integrate and retain key personnel our ability to grow our business could be harmed.
The members of our senior management and other key personnel are at-will employees and may terminate their employment at any time without notice. If one or more members of our senior management terminate their employment, we may not be able to find qualified individuals to replace them on a timely basis or at all, and our senior management may need to divert their attention from other aspects of our business. Former employees may also become employees of a competitor. We may also have to pay additional compensation to attract and retain key personnel. We also anticipate hiring additional engineering, marketing and sales, and services personnel to grow our business. Often, significant amounts of time and resources are required to train these personnel. We may incur significant costs to attract, integrate and retain them, and we may lose them to a competitor or another company before we realize the benefit of our investments in them.

Our international operations subject us, and may increasingly subject us in the future, to operational, financial, economic and political risks abroad.

Although we derive a relatively small portion of our revenue from customers outside the United States, we believe that non-U.S. customers could represent an increasing share of our revenue in the future. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, we generated 8.6%, 10.6% and 8.8% of our revenue, respectively, from customers outside of the United States, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand. In 2014, we opened a new innovation center in India and a sales office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Accordingly, we are subject to risks and challenges that we would not otherwise face if we conducted our business solely in the United States, including:
challenges incorporating non-English speech recognition capabilities into our solutions as we expand into non-English speaking jurisdictions;
difficulties integrating our solutions with wireless infrastructures with which we do not have experience;
difficulties integrating local dialing plans and applicable PBX standards;
challenges associated with delivering support, training and documentation in several languages;
difficulties in staffing and managing personnel and resellers;
the need to comply with a wide variety of foreign laws and regulations, including increasingly stringent data privacy regulations, requirements for export controls for encryption technology, employment laws, changes in tax laws and tax audits by government agencies;
political and economic instability in, or foreign conflicts that involve or affect, the countries of our customers;
adverse effects on us directly, or on our customers and suppliers, of changes in trade, fiscal or tax policies;
difficulties in collecting accounts receivable and longer accounts receivable payment cycles;
exposure to competitors who are more familiar with local markets;
risks associated with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and local anti-bribery law compliance;
difficulties associated with resolving contract disputes in foreign countries with varied legal systems;
limited or unfavorable intellectual property protection in some countries; and
currency exchange rate fluctuations, which could affect the price of our solutions relative to locally produced solutions.

Any of these factors could harm our existing international business, impair our ability to expand into international markets or harm our operating results.


Our solutions are highly complex and may contain software or hardware defects that could harm our reputation and operating results.

Our solutions incorporate complex technology, are deployed in a variety of complex hospital environments and must interoperate with many different types of devices and hospital systems. While we test the components of our solutions for defects and errors prior to release, we or our customers may not discover a defect or error until after we have deployed our solution, integrated it into the hospital environment and our customer has commenced general use of the solution. In addition, our solutions in some cases are integrated with hardware and software offered by “middleware” vendors in order to interoperate with nurse call systems, device alarms and other hospital systems. If we cannot successfully integrate our solution with these vendors as needed or if any hardware or software of these vendors contains any defect or error, then our solution may not perform as designed, or may exhibit a defect or error.
Any defects or errors in, or which are attributed to, our solutions, could result in:
delayed market acceptance of our affected solutions;
loss of revenue or delay in revenue recognition;
loss of customers or inability to attract new customers;
diversion of engineering or other resources for remedying the defect or error;
damage to our brand and reputation;
delay in delivery of information;
increased service and warranty costs, including potential replacement costs for product recalls; and
legal actions by our customers and hospital patients, including product liability claims.
If any of these occur, our operating results and reputation could be harmed.


We face potential liability related to the privacy and security of personal information collected through our solutions.


In connection with our healthcare communications business, we handle and have access to personal health information“Protected Health Information” (PHI) subject in the United States to HIPAA or HITECH,the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as amended and supplemented by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) , regulations issued pursuant to these statutes, state privacy and security laws and regulations, and associated contractual obligations as a “business associate” of healthcare providers. These statutes, regulations and contractual obligations impose numerous requirements regarding the use and disclosure of personal health informationPHI with which we must comply. Among other things, HITECH made certain aspects of HIPAA’s rules, notably the “HIPAA Security Rule,” directly applicable to business associates, independent contractors or agents of covered entities that create, receive, maintain or transmit PHI in connection with providing a function on behalf of, or a service to, a covered entity (e.g., health care communication solutions). HITECH also created four new tiers of civil monetary penalties, amended HIPAA to make civil and criminal penalties directly applicable to business associates and gave state attorneys general new authority to file civil actions for damages or injunctions in federal court to enforce the federal HIPAA regulation and seek attorney’s fees and costs associated with pursuing federal civil actions. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has increased its focus on compliance and continues to train state attorneys general for enforcement purposes. The OCR has recently increased both its efforts to audit HIPAA compliance and its level of enforcement, with one recent penalty exceeding $16 million. Our failure to accurately anticipate the application or interpretation of these statutes, regulations and contractual obligations as we develop our solutions, a failure by us to comply with their requirements (e.g., evolving encryption and security requirements) or an allegation that defects in our products have resulted in noncompliance by our customers could create material civil and/or criminal liability for us, resulting in adverse publicity and negatively affecting our business.
In addition, the use and disclosure of personal health information, non-health personal information is also subject to laws and regulations in other jurisdictions in which we do business or expect to do business in the future. Any developments stemming from enactment or modification of these laws and regulations, or the failure by us to comply with their requirements or to accurately anticipate the application or interpretation of these laws could create material liability to us (including but not limited to regulatory enforcement actions), which may result in adverse publicity and negatively affect our business.
For example, the EU adopted the DPD, imposing strict regulations and establishing a series of requirements regarding the storage of personally identifiable information on computers or recorded on other electronic media. This has been implemented by all EU member states through national laws. DPD provides for specific regulations requiring all non-EU countries doing business with EU member states to provide adequate data privacy protection when receiving personal data from any of the EU member states. Inin May 2016, the EU formally adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will applybecame effective in May 2018. The GDPR greatly increased the European Commission’s jurisdictional reach of its laws and adds a broad array of requirements for handling personal information, including, for example, requirements to allestablish a legal basis for processing, higher standards for obtaining consent from individuals to process their personal information, more robust disclosures to individuals and a strengthened individual data rights regime, requirements to implement safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of personal information that requires the adoption of administrative, physical and technical safeguards, shortened timelines for data breach notifications to appropriate data protection authorities or data subjects, limitations on retention and secondary use of information, increased requirements pertaining to health data and additional
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requirements that we impose certain contractual obligations on third-party processors in connection with the processing of the personal information. EU member states beginningare tasked under the GDPR to enact, and have enacted, certain implementing legislation that adds to and/or further interprets the GDPR requirements and potentially extends our obligations and potential liability for failing to meet such obligations. The GDPR, together with national legislation, regulations and guidelines of the EU member states governing the processing of personal information, impose strict obligations and restrictions on the ability to collect, use, retain, protect, disclose, transfer and otherwise process personal information. In particular, the GDPR includes obligations and restrictions concerning the consent and rights of individuals to whom the personal information relates, the transfer of personal information out of the European Economic Area, security breach notifications and the security and confidentiality of personal information. The GDPR authorizes fines for certain violations of up to 4% of global annual revenue or €20 million, whichever is greater, and other administrative penalties. Additionally, the United Kingdom (UK) implemented the Data Protection Act effective in May 2018 and will replacestatutorily amended in 2019, that substantially implements the current DPD.GDPR and contains provisions, including UK-specific derogations, for how GDPR is applied in the UK. Since the beginning of 2021 (when the transitional period following Brexit expired), we also have to continue to comply with the GDPR and the Data Protection Act, with each regime having the ability to fine up to the greater of €20 million (£17 million) or 4% of global turnover. The regulation introduces newrelationship between the U.K. and the EU remains uncertain, for example how data protection requirements intransfers between the U.K. and the EU and substantial fines for breachesother jurisdictions will be treated and the role of the U.K.’s supervisory authority. The EU has issued a draft adequacy decision for personal information transfers from the European Economic Area to the U.K. on February 19, 2021. Although the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued an opinion generally supportive of the draft adequacy decision, the EDPB urged further assessment of certain issues and continued monitoring of developments in UK law. If this adequacy decision is not passed by the EU, it would require that companies implement protection measures such as the standard contractual clauses, or “Standard contractual Clauses,” for data protection rules. Ittransfers between the EU and the UK. These changes will lead to additional costs as we try to ensure compliance with new privacy legislation and will increase our responsibility and liability in relation to personal data that we process and we may be required to put in place additional mechanisms ensuringoverall risk exposure.
The costs of compliance with, the new EU data protection rules.  Additionally, Canada’s Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act, as well as a variety of provincial statutes, provides Canadian residents with privacy protections in regard to transactions with businesses and organizations in the private sector and sets out ground rules for how private sector organizations may collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activities. A finding that we have failed to comply with applicableother burdens imposed by, such laws and regulations regardingthat are applicable to our business operations may limit the collection, use and disclosureadoption of personal informationour services and reduce overall demand for them. Changes in these legislations may add additional complexity, variation in requirements, restrictions and potential legal risk, require additional investment in resources for compliance programs, could create liability for us,impact strategies and availability of previously useful data, and could result in adverse publicityincreased compliance costs and/or changes in business practices and negatively affect our business.policies.
Any legislation or regulation in the area of privacy and security of personal information could affect the way we operate our services and could harm our business. For example, the EuropeanGDPR imposes strict rules on the transfer of personal information out of the EU to the United States. These obligations may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other requirements or our practices. In addition, these rules are consistently under scrutiny. For example, on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court of Justice) invalidated the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor frameworkEuropean Union-United States (EU-U.S.) Privacy Shield on the grounds that had beenthe EU-U.S. Privacy Shield failed to offer adequate protections to EU personal information transferred to the United States. While the Court of Justice upheld the use of other data transfer mechanisms, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses, the decision has led to some uncertainty regarding the use of such mechanisms for data transfers to the United States, and the court made clear that reliance on Standard Contractual Clauses alone may not necessarily be sufficient in place since 2000, which allowed companies to meet certain EU legal requirementsall circumstances. The use of Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal information specifically to the United States also remains under review by a number of European data fromprotection supervisory authorities. For example, German and Irish supervisory authorities have indicated that the Standard Contractual Clauses alone provide inadequate protection for EU-U.S. data transfers. Use of the data transfer mechanisms must now be assessed on a case-by-case basis taking into account the legal regime applicable in the destination country, in particular applicable surveillance laws and rights of individuals.
On June 4, 2021 the European Commission finalized new versions of the Standard Contractual Clauses, with the implementing decision, or “Implementing Decision,” now in effect as of June 27, 2021. Under the Implementing Decision, we will have until December 27, 2022 to update any existing agreements, or any new agreements executed before September 27, 2021, that rely on Standard Contractual Clauses as the data transfer mechanism. To comply with the Implementing Decision and the new Standard Contractual Clauses, we may need to implement additional safeguards to further enhance the security of data transferred out of the European Economic Area, which could increase our compliance costs, expose us to further regulatory scrutiny and liability, and adversely affect our business.
Additionally, other countries (e.g., Australia and Japan) have adopted certain legal requirements for cross-border transfers of personal information. These obligations may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other requirements or our practices. Further, since the transition period for Brexit ended December 31, 2020, there remains some uncertainty regarding cross-border data transfers from the EU to the United States. While other adequate legal mechanismsKingdom. The EU is expected to lawfully transfereither issue an adequacy decision for such data remain,transfers in early 2021, or an adequacy mechanism such as the invalidation of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor framework may result in different European data protection regulators applying differing standardsStandard Contractual Clauses will be required for the transfer of personal data, which could result in increased regulation, cost of compliance and

limitations on data transfer for us and our customers.information from the EU to the United Kingdom. The costs of compliance with, and the other burdens imposed by, these and other laws or regulatory actions may prevent us from
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selling our solutions or increase the costs associated with selling our solutions and may affect our ability to invest in or jointly develop solutions in the United States and in foreign jurisdictions. If we are required to implement additional measures to transfer data from foreign jurisdictions, such as the EU, this could increase our compliance costs, and could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Further, we cannot assure youguarantee that our privacy and security policies and practices will be found sufficient to protect us from liability or adverse publicity relating to the privacy and security of personal information.


Additionally, several states have begun enacting new data privacy laws. For example, California recently enacted legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that, among other things, requires covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers, and afford such consumers new abilities to opt out of certain sales of personal information. The CCPA took effect on January 1, 2020 and became enforceable by the California Attorney General on July 1, 2020. The CCPA has been amended on multiple occasions and additional regulations of the California Attorney General came into effect on August 14, 2020 and were most recently amended on March 15, 2021. However, aspects of the CCPA and its interpretation remain unclear. The effects of the CCPA are significant and may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies and to incur substantial costs and expenses in an effort to comply. Moreover, a new privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) was recently approved by California voters in connection with the election on November 3, 2020. The CPRA creates obligations relating to consumer data beginning on January 1, 2022, with implementing regulations expected on or before July 1, 2022, and enforcement beginning July 1, 2023. The CCPA requires (and the CPRA will require) covered companies to, among other things, provide new disclosures to California consumers, and affords such consumers new privacy rights such as the ability to opt-out of certain sales of personal information and expanded rights to access and require deletion of their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing, and receive detailed information about how their personal information is collected, used and shared. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for security breaches that may increase security breach litigation. Potential uncertainty surrounding the CCPA and CPRA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability, particularly in the event of a data breach, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, including how we use personal information, our financial condition, the results of our operations or prospects. The CCPA has also prompted a number of proposals for new federal and state privacy legislation that, if passed, could increase our potential liability, increase our compliance costs and adversely affect our business. Two states have recently passed personal information laws: the Colorado Privacy Act, which goes in effect on July 1, 2023; and Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act, which goes in effect on January 1, 2023.

The interplay of federal and state laws (e.g., in addition to California, Massachusetts and Nevada have adopted laws requiring the implementation of certain security measures to protect personal information, and all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam, have adopted breach notification laws) may be subject to varying interpretations by courts and government agencies, creating complex compliance issues for us and our customers and potentially exposing us to additional expense, adverse publicity and liability. Further, as regulatory focus on privacy, security and data use issues continues to increase and laws and regulations concerning the protection of personal information expand and become more complex, these potential risks to products and services could intensify.

As mentioned, changing definitions of personal data and information may also limit or inhibit our ability to operate or expand our business, including limiting strategic partnerships that may involve the sharing of data. Also, some jurisdictions require that certain types of data be retained on servers within these jurisdictions. Our failure to comply with applicable laws, directives, and regulations may result in enforcement action against us, including fines, and damage to our reputation, any of which may have an adverse effect on our equipment lease customers to pay us under leasing agreements with them that we do not sell to third party lease finance companies could harm our revenuebusiness and operating results.

In 2012, we began offering our badges and related hardware accessories to our customers through multi-year equipment lease agreements. In connection with each sale, we recognize product-related revenue at the net present value of the lease payment stream once our obligations related to such sale have been met. We plan to sell the bulk of these leases, including the related accounts receivables, to third party lease finance companies on a non-recourse basis. We will have to retain unsold leases in-house, which will expose us to the creditworthiness of such equipment lease customers over the lease term. For the leases that we retain in-house, our ability to collect payments from a customer or to recognize revenue for the sale could be impaired if the customer fails to meet its obligations to us such as in the case of its bankruptcy filing or deterioration in its financial position, or has other creditworthiness issues, any of which could harm our revenue and operating results.


If our efforts to protect the security of information collected by our customers are unsuccessful, we could become subject to costly government enforcement actions and private litigation, and our sales and reputation could suffer.


The nature of our business involves the receipt and storage of information about our customers.customers, including personal information and PHI. We have implemented programs to detect and alert us to data security incidents. However, because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and may be difficult to detect for long periods of time, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventive measures. Companies are increasingly subject to a wide variety of security incidents, cyber-attacks and other attempts to gain unauthorized access. These threats can come from a variety of sources, ranging in sophistication from an individual hacker to malfeasance by employees, consultants or other service providers to state-sponsored attacks. Cyber threats may be generic, or they may be custom-craftedcustom crafted against our information systems. In recent times, cyber-attacks have become more prevalent and much harder to detect and defend against. Our network and storage applications may be vulnerable to cyber-attack, malicious intrusion, malfeasance, loss of data privacy or other significant disruption and may be subject to unauthorized access by hackers, employees, consultants or other service providers. In addition, hardware, software or applications we develop or
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procure from third parties may contain defects in design or manufacture or other problems that could unexpectedly compromise information security. Unauthorized parties may also attempt to gain access to our systems or facilities through fraud, trickery or other forms of deceiving our employees, contractors and temporary staff. If we experience significant data security breaches or fail to detect and appropriately respond to significant data security breaches, we could be exposed to government enforcement actions and private litigation.litigation, as well as potentially incur significant costs and diversion of resources to comply with our contractual obligations to notify our customers of such security breaches, particularly with respect to any protected health information affected. Moreover, if a computer security breach affects our systems or results in the unauthorized access, use or disclosure of personal information, our reputation could be materially damaged. In addition, such a breach may require notification to governmental agencies, the media and/or affected individuals pursuant to various federal, state and international privacy and security laws, if applicable, including HIPAA or HITECH and its implementing rules and regulations, as well as regulations promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission and state breach notification laws. We would also be exposed to a risk of loss or litigation and potential liability under laws, regulations and contracts that protect the privacy and security of personal information. For example, as stated above, the CCPA imposes a private right of action for security breaches that could lead to some form of remedy including regulatory scrutiny, fines, private right of action settlements, and other consequences. The financial exposure from the events referenced above could either not be insured against or not be fully covered through any insurance that we may maintain, and there can be no assurance that the limitations of liability in any of our contracts would be enforceable or adequate or would otherwise protect us from liabilities or damages as a result of the events referenced above. Any of the foregoing could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, results of operations, financial condition and prospects. In addition, our customers could further lose confidence in our ability to protect their information, which could cause them to discontinue using our products or purchasing from us altogether.


The failure of our equipment lease customers to pay us under leasing agreements with them that we do not sell to third party lease finance companies could harm our revenue and operating results.

In 2012, we began offering our solutions to our customers through multi-year equipment lease agreements. We sell the bulk of these leases, including the related accounts receivables, to third party lease finance companies on a non-recourse basis. We retain unsold leases in-house, which exposes us to the creditworthiness of such lease customers over the lease term. For the leases that we retain in-house, our ability to collect payments from a customer or to recognize revenue for the sale could be impaired if the customer fails to meet its obligations to us such as in the case of its bankruptcy filing or deterioration in its financial position, or has other creditworthiness issues, any of which could harm our revenue and operating results.

Our use of open source and non-commercial software components could impose risks and limitations on our ability to commercialize our solutions.


Our solutions contain software modules licensed under open source and other types of non-commercial licenses, including the GNU Public License, the Apache License and others. We also may incorporate open source and other licensed software into our solutions in the future. Use and distribution of such software may entail greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as licenses of these types generally do not provide warranties or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. Some of these licenses require the release of our proprietary source code to the public if we combine our proprietary software with open source software in certain manners. This could allow competitors to create similar products with lower development effort and time and ultimately result in a loss of sales for us.
The terms of many open source and other non-commercial licenses have not been judicially interpreted, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our solutions. In such event, in order to continue offering our solutions, we could be required to seek licenses from alternative licensors, which may not be available on a commercially reasonable basis or at all, to re-engineer our solutions or to discontinue the sale of our solutions in the event we cannot obtain a license or re-engineer our solutions on a timely basis, any of which could harm our business and operating results. In addition, if an owner of licensed software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of the corresponding license agreement, we could incur significant legal costs defending ourselves against such allegations. In the event such claims were successful, we could be subject to significant damages, be required to disclose our source code, or be enjoined from the distribution of our solutions.



Claims of intellectual property infringement could harm our business.


Vigorous protection and pursuit of intellectual property rights has resulted in protracted and expensive litigation for many companies in our industry. Although claims of this kind have not materially affected our business to date, there can be no assurance of the absence of such claims in the future. Any claims or proceedings against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, require significant amounts of management time, result in the diversion of
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significant operational resources, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, any of which could harm our business and operating results.
Intellectual property lawsuits are subject to inherent uncertainties due to the complexity of the technical issues involved, and we cannot be certain that we will be successful in defending ourselves against intellectual property claims. In addition, we currently have a limited portfolio of issued patents compared to many other industry participants, and therefore may not be able to effectively utilize our intellectual property portfolio to assert defenses or counterclaims in response to patent infringement claims or litigation brought against us by third parties. Further, litigation may involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners who have no relevant products and against whom our potential patents may provide little or no deterrence.
Many potential litigants have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them. Furthermore, a successful claimant could secure a judgment that requires us to pay substantial damages or prevents us from distributing certain solutions or performing certain services. We might also be required to seek a license and pay royalties for the use of such intellectual property, which may not be available on commercially acceptable terms or at all. Alternatively, we may be required to develop non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense and may ultimately not be successful.


If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position could be harmed, or we could be required to incur significant expenses to enforce our rights.


Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our proprietary technology. We protect our proprietary technology through patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark laws in the United States and similar laws in other countries. We also protect our proprietary technology through licensing agreements, nondisclosure agreements and other contractual provisions. These protections may not be available in all cases or may be inadequate to prevent our competitors from copying, reverse engineering or otherwise obtaining and using our technology, proprietary rights or solutions in an unauthorized manner. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. In addition, third parties may seek to challenge, invalidate or circumvent our patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, or applications for any of the foregoing. Our competitors may independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent, or superior, to our technology or design around our proprietary rights. In each case, our ability to compete could be significantly impaired.
To prevent unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, it may be necessary to prosecute actions for infringement or misappropriation of our proprietary rights. Any such action could result in significant costs and diversion of our resources and management’s attention, and there can be no assurance that we will be successful in such action. Furthermore, many of our current and potential competitors have the ability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights than us. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may not be able to prevent third parties from infringing or misappropriating our intellectual property. While we plan to continue to protect our intellectual property with, among other things, patent protection, there can be no assurance that:
current or future U.S. or foreign patent applications will be approved;
our issued patents will protect our intellectual property and not be held invalid or unenforceable if challenged by third parties;
we will succeed in protecting our technology adequately in all key jurisdictions in which we develop technology, or we or our competitors operate; or
others will not independently develop similar or competing products or methods or design around any patents that may be issued to us.
Our failure to obtain patents with claims of a scope necessary to cover our technology, or the invalidation of our patents, or our inability to protect any of our intellectual property, may weaken our competitive position and harm our business and operating results. We might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. We may initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our proprietary rights or to establish the validity of our proprietary rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel, which may harm our business, operating results and financial condition.



Product liability or other liability claims could cause us to incur significant costs, adversely affect the sales of our solutions and harm our reputation.


Our solutions are utilized by healthcare professionals and others in the course of providing patient care. It is possible thatAs a result, patients, family members, physicians, nurses or others may allege we are responsible for harm to patients or healthcare professionals due
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to defects in, the malfunction of, the characteristics of, or the operation of, our solutions. Any such allegations could harm our reputation and ability to sell our solutions.
Our solutions utilize lithium-ion batteries and electronic components that may overheat or otherwise malfunction as a result of physical or environmental damage. Components of our solutions emit radio frequency (RF) emissions which have been alleged, in connection with cellular phones, to have adverse health consequences. Magnets in our badgesBadges may emit electromagnetic radiation and may be alleged to interfere with implanted medical or other devices. While these components of our solutions comply with applicable guidelines, some may allege that these components of our solutions cause adverse health consequences. Also, applicable guidelines may change making these components of our solutions non-compliant. Any such allegations or non-compliance, or any regulatory developments, could negatively impact the sales of our solutions, require costly modifications to our solutions, and harm our reputation.
Although our customer agreements contain terms and conditions, including disclaimers of liability, that are intended to reduce or eliminate our potential liability, we could be required to spend significant amounts of management time and resources to defend ourselves against product liability, tort, warranty or other claims. If any such claims were to prevail, we could be forced to pay damages, comply with injunctions or stop distributing our solutions. Even if potential claims do not result in liability to us, investigating and defending against these claims could be expensive and time consuming and could divert management’s attention away from our business. We maintain general liability insurance coverage, including coverage for errors and omissions; however, this coverage may not be sufficient to cover large claims against us or otherwise continue to be available on acceptable terms. Further, the insurer could attempt to disclaim coverage as to any particular claim.


We may require additional capital to support our business growth, and such capital may not be available.


We intend to continue to make investments to support business growth and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges, which include the need to develop new solutions or enhance existing solutions, enhance our operating infrastructure, expand our sales and marketing capabilities, expand into non-healthcare markets, and acquire complementary businesses, technologies or assets. Accordingly, we may need to engage in additional equity or debt financing to secure funds. Equity and debt financing, however, might not be available when needed or, if available, might not be available on terms satisfactory to us. If we raise additional funds through equity financing, our stockholders may experience dilution. Debt financing, if available, may involve covenants restricting our operations or our ability to incur additional debt. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us in the future, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited as we may have to delay, reduce the scope of or eliminate some or all of our initiatives, which could harm our operating results.


Some of our solutions are, and others could become, subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or similar foreign agencies, which could increase our operating costs.


We provide certain products that are, and others that may become, subject to regulation by the FDAFood and Drug Administration (FDA) and similar agencies in other countries, or the jurisdiction of these agencies could be expanded in the future to include our solutions. The FDA regulates certain products, including software-based products, as “medical devices” based, in part, on the intended use of the product and the risk the device poses to the patient should the device fail to perform properly. For example, the clinical alert notification solution we acquired as part of our acquisition of Extension Healthcare and the clinical communications product we acquired from mVisum are regulated by the FDA as Class II medical devices. Although we have concluded that our wireless badgeBadge is a general-purpose communications device not subject to FDA regulation, the FDA could disagree with our conclusion, or changes in our solutions or the FDA’s evolving regulation could lead to FDA regulation of our solutions. Any of our products deemed to be medical devices would be subject to the 2.3% excise tax under the ACA. Canada and many other countries in which we sell or may sell our solutions could also have similar regulations applicable to our solutions, some of which may be subject to change or interpretation. We may incur substantial operating costs if we are required to register our solutions or components of our solutions as regulated medical devices under U.S. or foreign regulations, obtain premarket approval from the FDA or foreign regulatory agencies, and satisfy the extensive reporting requirements. In addition, failure to comply with these regulations could result in enforcement actions and monetary penalties. The clinical alert notification solution

Environmental and social (E&S) regulations, policies and provisions, as well as customer demand, may make our supply chain more complex and may adversely affect our relationships with customers.

There is an increasing focus on the governance of environmental and social risks in our industry. A number of our customers have adopted, or may adopt, procurement policies that include E&S provisions that their suppliers must comply with, or they may seek to include such provisions in their procurement terms and conditions. An increasing number of participants in the industry are also joining voluntary E&S initiatives, such as the Responsible Business Alliance. These E&S provisions and initiatives are subject to change, can be unpredictable, and may be difficult and expensive for us to comply with, given the
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complexity of our supply chain and our outsourced manufacturing. If we acquiredare unable to comply or are unable to cause our suppliers or contract manufacturers to comply, with such policies or provisions, a customer may stop purchasing products from us, and may take legal action against us, which could harm our reputation, revenue and results of operations.

In addition, as part of their E&S programs, an increasing number of customers are seeking to source products that do not contain minerals sourced from areas where proceeds from the sale of such minerals are likely to be used to fund armed conflict, such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This could adversely affect the sourcing, availability and pricing of minerals used in the manufacture of our acquisitionequipment. Since our supply chain is complex, we are not currently able to definitively ascertain the origins of Extension Healthcareall of the minerals and metals used in our products. As a result, we may face difficulties in satisfying these customers’ demands, which may harm our sales and operating results.

Risks Related to our Notes

We have indebtedness in the form of convertible senior notes.

As a result of the Notes offerings, we incurred $265.3 million principal amount of indebtedness, the principal amount of which we may be required to pay at maturity in 2023 and 2026. Holders of the Notes will have the right to require us to repurchase their Notes upon the occurrence of a “fundamental change” (as defined in the indenture governing the Notes) at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. In addition, the indenture for the Notes provides that we are required to repay amounts due under the indenture in the event that there is an event of default for the Notes that results in the principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, becoming due prior to maturity date of the Notes. There can be no assurance that we will be able to repay this indebtedness when due, or that we will be able to refinance this indebtedness on acceptable terms or at all. In addition, this indebtedness could, among other things:

heighten our vulnerability to adverse general economic conditions and heightened competitive pressures;
require us to dedicate a larger portion of our cash flow from operations to interest payments, limiting the availability of cash for other purposes;
limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and industry; and
impair our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, general corporate purposes or other purposes.

In addition, our ability to purchase the Notes or repay prior to maturity any accelerated amounts under the Notes upon an event of default or pay cash upon conversions of the Notes may be limited by law, by regulatory authority or by agreements governing our indebtedness outstanding at the time. Our failure to repurchase Notes at a time when the repurchase is required by the indenture (whether upon a fundamental change or otherwise under the indenture) or pay cash payable on future conversions of the Notes (unless we elect to deliver solely shares of our common stock to settle such conversion) as required by the indenture would constitute a default under the indenture. A default under the indenture or the fundamental change itself could also lead to a default under agreements governing any future indebtedness. If the repayment of any related indebtedness were to be accelerated after any applicable notice or grace periods, we may not have sufficient funds to repay the indebtedness, repurchase the Notes or make cash payments upon conversions thereof.

Although the Notes are referred to as convertible senior notes, they are effectively subordinated to any of our secured debt and any liabilities of our subsidiaries.

The Notes will rank senior in right of payment to any of our indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the notes; equal in right of payment to all of our existing and future liabilities that are not so subordinated; effectively junior in right of payment to any of our secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness; and structurally junior to all indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables) of our current or future subsidiaries. In the event of our bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, or other winding up, our assets that secure debt ranking senior or equal in right of payment to the Notes will be available to pay obligations on the Notes only after the secured debt has been repaid in full from these assets, and the clinical communications productassets of our subsidiaries will be available to pay obligations on the Notes only after all claims senior to the Notes have been repaid in full. There may not be sufficient assets remaining to pay amounts due on any or all of the Notes then outstanding. The indenture governing the Notes will not prohibit us from incurring additional senior debt or secured debt, nor will it prohibit any of our current or future subsidiaries from incurring additional liabilities.

Servicing our debt requires, and will require, a significant amount of cash. We may not have sufficient cash flow to make payments on our debt, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

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Our ability to make scheduled payments of the principal of, to pay interest on or to refinance our indebtedness,
including the Notes, depends on our future performance, which is subject to economic, financial, competitive and other factors beyond our control. Our business may not continue to generate cash flow from operations in the future sufficient to service our debt and make necessary capital expenditures. If we acquired from mVisum are regulatedunable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more alternatives, such as selling assets, restructuring debt or obtaining additional equity capital on terms that may be onerous or highly dilutive. Our ability to refinance our indebtedness will depend on the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. We may not be able to engage in any of these activities or engage in these activities on desirable terms, which could result in a default on our debt obligations, including the notes or otherwise.

In addition, our significant indebtedness, combined with our other financial obligations and contractual commitments, could have other important consequences. For example, it could:

make us more vulnerable to adverse changes in general U.S. and worldwide economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation;
limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and our industry;
place us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors who have less debt; and
limit our ability to borrow additional amounts for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including to fund possible acquisitions of, or investments in, complementary businesses, products, services and technologies.

Any of these factors could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, if we incur additional indebtedness, the risks related to our business and our ability to service or repay our indebtedness would increase.

Recent and future regulatory actions and other events may adversely affect the trading price and liquidity of the Notes.

We expect that many investors in, and purchasers of, the notes will employ, or seek to employ, a convertible arbitrage strategy with respect to the notes. Investors would typically implement such a strategy by selling short the common stock underlying the notes and dynamically adjusting their short position while continuing to hold the notes. Investors may also implement this type of strategy by entering into swaps on our common stock in lieu of or in addition to short selling the common stock.

The SEC and other regulatory and self-regulatory authorities have implemented various rules and taken certain actions, and may in the future adopt additional rules and take other actions, that may impact those engaging in short selling activity involving equity securities (including our common stock). Such rules and actions include Rule 201 of SEC Regulation SHO, the adoption by the FDAFinancial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. and the national securities exchanges of a “Limit Up-Limit Down” program, the imposition of market-wide circuit breakers that halt trading of securities for certain periods following specific market declines, and the implementation of certain regulatory reforms required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Any governmental or regulatory action that restricts the ability of the holders the Notes to effect short sales of our common stock, borrow our common stock, or enter into swaps on our common stock could adversely affect the trading price and the liquidity of the Notes.

Volatility in the market price and trading volume of our common stock could adversely impact the trading price of the Notes.

We expect that the trading price of the Notes will be significantly affected by the market price of our common stock. The stock market in recent years has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated to the operating performance of companies. The market price of our common stock could fluctuate significantly for many reasons. A decrease in the market price of our common stock would likely adversely impact the trading price of the notes. The market price of our common stock could also be affected by possible sales of our common stock by investors who view the Notes as Class II medical devices.a more attractive means of equity participation in us and by hedging or arbitrage trading activity that we expect to develop involving our common stock. This trading activity could, in turn, affect the trading price of the Notes.


We may still incur substantially more debt or take other actions which would intensify the risks discussed above.

We and our subsidiaries may incur substantial additional debt in the future, subject to the restrictions contained in our debt instruments, some of which may be secured debt. We will not be restricted under the terms of the indentures governing the Notes from incurring additional debt, securing existing or future debt, recapitalizing our debt, or taking a number of other actions that are not limited by the terms of the indentures governing the Notes that could have the effect of diminishing our ability to make payments on our debt, including the Notes, when due.

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We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to settle conversions of the Notes in cash or to repurchase the Notes upon a fundamental change, and our future debt may contain limitations on our ability to pay cash upon conversion or repurchase of the Notes.

Holders of the Notes will have the right, subject to certain conditions and limited exceptions, to require us to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change before the maturity date at a fundamental change repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, In addition, upon conversion of the Notes, unless we elect to deliver solely shares of our common stock to settle such conversion (other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share), we will be required to make cash payments in respect of the Notes being converted. However, we may not have enough available cash or be able to obtain financing at the time we are required to make repurchases of Notes surrendered therefor or pay cash with respect to Notes being converted.

In addition, our ability to repurchase Notes or to pay cash upon conversions of Notes may be limited by law, regulatory authority, or any agreements governing our future indebtedness. Our failure to repurchase Notes at a time when the repurchase is required by the indenture or to pay any cash upon conversions of Notes as required by the indenture would constitute a default under the indenture. A default under the indenture or the fundamental change itself could also lead to a default under agreements governing our future indebtedness. If the payment of the related indebtedness were to be accelerated after any applicable notice or grace periods, we may not have sufficient funds to repay the indebtedness and repurchase the Notes or to pay cash upon conversions of notes.

Redemption may adversely affect a holder’s return on the 2026 Notes.

We may not redeem the 2026 Notes prior to March 20, 2024. We may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2026 Notes (subject to the partial redemption limitation (as defined in the indenture governing the notes)), at our option, on or after March 20, 2024 if the last reported sale price of our common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which we provide notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. As a result, we may choose to redeem some or all of the 2026 Notes, including at times when prevailing interest rates are relatively low. As a result, you may not be able to reinvest the proceeds you receive from the redemption in a comparable security at an effective interest rate as high as the interest rate on your 2026 Notes being redeemed. In addition, a redemption of less than all of the outstanding 2026 Notes will likely harm the liquidity of the market for the unredeemed 2026 Notes following the redemption. Accordingly, if your 2026 Notes are not redeemed in a partial redemption, then you may be unable to sell your 2026 Notes at the times you desire or at favorable prices, if at all, and the trading price of your 2026 Notes may decline.

The conditional conversion feature of the Notes, if triggered, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results

In the event the conditional conversion feature of the Notes is triggered, holders of the Notes will be entitled to convert their Notes at any time during specified periods at their option. If one or more holders elect to convert their Notes, unless we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation by delivering solely shares of our common stock (other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share), we would be required to settle a portion or all of our conversion obligation through the payment of cash, which could adversely affect our liquidity. In addition, even if holders of Notes do not elect to convert their Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which would result in a material reduction of our net working capital.

Changes in the accounting method for convertible debt securities that may be settled in cash, such as the Notes, could have a material effect on our reported financial results.

The accounting method for reflecting the Notes on our balance sheet, accruing amortized interest expense for the Notes and reflecting the underlying shares of our common stock in our reported diluted earnings per share may adversely affect our reported earnings and financial condition. For the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2021, we have elected to early adopt new accounting guidance that was recently released that simplifies the accounting for convertible debt that may be settled in cash (ASU 2020-06), amending Accounting Standards Codification 470-20, Debt with Conversion and Other Options (ASC 470-20). As a result, we expect to record the convertible debt securities (including the Notes) entirely as a liability on our balance sheet, net of issuance costs incurred, with interest expense reflecting the cash coupon plus the amortization of the capitalized issuance costs. Additionally, the new guidance modifies the treatment of convertible debt securities that may be settled in cash or shares
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by requiring the use of the “if-converted” method. Under that method, diluted earnings per share would generally be calculated assuming that all the Notes were converted solely into shares of common stock at the beginning of the reporting period, unless the result would be antidilutive. In addition, in the future, we may, in our sole discretion, irrevocably elect to settle the conversion value of the Notes in cash up to the principal amount being converted. Following such an irrevocable election, if the conversion value of the Notes exceeds their principal amount for a reporting period, then we will calculate our diluted earnings per share by assuming that all of the Notes were converted at the beginning of the reporting period and that we issued shares of our common stock to settle the excess, unless the result would be anti-dilutive. The application of the if-converted method may reduce our reported diluted earnings per share. Furthermore, if any of the conditions to the convertibility of the Notes are satisfied, then, under certain conditions, we may be required under applicable accounting standards to reclassify the liability carrying value of the Notes as a current, rather than a long-term, liability. This reclassification could be required even if no noteholders convert their Notes and could materially reduce our reported working capital.

Future sales of our common stock or equity-linked securities in the public market could lower the market price for our common stock and adversely impact the trading price of the Notes.

In the future, we may sell additional shares of our common stock or equity-linked securities to raise capital. In addition, a substantial number of shares of our common stock is reserved for issuance upon the exercise of stock options and upon conversion of the Notes. We cannot predict the size of future issuances or the effect, if any, that they may have on the market price for our common stock. The issuance and sale of substantial amounts of our common stock or equity-linked securities, or the perception that such issuances and sales may occur, could adversely affect the trading price of the Notes and the market price of our common stock and impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity or equity-linked securities.

Holders of Notes will not be entitled to any rights with respect to our common stock, but they will be subject to all changes affecting our common stock to the extent satisfaction of our conversion obligation includes shares of our common stock.

Holders of Notes will not be entitled to any rights with respect to our common stock (including, without limitation, voting rights and rights to receive any dividends or other distributions on our common stock) prior to the conversion date relating to such Notes (if we have elected to settle the relevant conversion by delivering solely shares of our common stock (other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share)) or the last trading day of the relevant observation period (if we elect to pay and deliver, as the case may be, a combination of cash and shares of our common stock in respect of the relevant conversion), but holders of Notes will be subject to all changes affecting our common stock. For example, if an amendment is proposed to our restated certificate of incorporation or restated bylaws requiring stockholder approval and the record date for determining the stockholders of record entitled to vote on the amendment occurs prior to the conversion date related to a holder’s conversion of its Notes (if we have elected to settle the relevant conversion by delivering solely shares of our common stock (other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share)) or the last trading day of the relevant observation period (if we elect to pay and deliver, as the case may be, a combination of cash and shares of our common stock in respect of the relevant conversion), such holder will not be entitled to vote on the amendment, although such holder will nevertheless be subject to any changes affecting our common stock.

The conditional conversion feature of the Notes could result in holders of our Notes receiving less than the value of our common stock into which the Notes would otherwise be convertible.

Prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding June 15, 2026, a holder may convert 2026 Notes only if specified conditions are met. If the specific conditions for conversion are not met, a holder will not be able to convert 2026 Notes, and a holder may not be able to receive the value of the cash, common stock or a combination of cash and common stock, as applicable, into which the 2026 Notes would otherwise be convertible.

Upon conversion of the Notes, our note holders may receive less valuable consideration than expected because the value of our common stock may decline after the exercise of conversion rights but before we settle our conversion obligation.

Under the Notes, a converting holder will be exposed to fluctuations in the value of our common stock during the period from the date such holder surrenders Notes for conversion until the date we settle our conversion obligation. For example, upon conversion of the 2026 Notes, we have the option to pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock. If we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation in cash or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock, the amount of consideration that our note holders will receive upon conversion of their 2026 Notes will be determined by reference to the volume weighted average prices of our common stock for each trading day in a 40 trading day observation period. This period would be: (i), subject to clause (ii), if the relevant conversion date occurs prior
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to June 15, 2026, the 40 consecutive trading days beginning on, and including, the second trading day immediately succeeding such conversion date; (ii) with respect to any 2026 Notes called for redemption (or deemed called for redemption) and prior to the relevant redemption date, the 40 consecutive trading days beginning on, and including the 41st scheduled trading day immediately preceding such redemption date; and (iii) subject to clause (ii) if the relevant conversion date occurs on or after June 15, 2026, the 40 consecutive trading days beginning on, and including, the 41st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. Accordingly, if the price of our common stock decreases during this period, the amount and/or value of consideration a note holder receives will be adversely affected. In addition, if the market price of our common stock at the end of such period is below the average of the daily volume weighted average prices of our common stock during such period, the value of any shares of our common stock that a note holder will receive in satisfaction of our conversion obligation will be less than the value used to determine the number of shares that the note holder will receive. If we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation solely in shares of our common stock upon conversion of the 2026 Notes, we will be required to deliver the shares of our common stock, together with cash for any fractional share, on the second business day following the relevant conversion date. Accordingly, if the price of our common stock decreases during this period, the value of the shares that a note holder receives will be adversely affected and would be less than the conversion value of the 2026 Notes on the conversion date.

The Notes are not protected by restrictive covenants.

The indentures governing the Notes will not contain any financial or operating covenants or restrictions on the payments of dividends, the incurrence of indebtedness, or the issuance or repurchase of securities by us or any of our subsidiaries. The indentures will not contain any covenants or other provisions to afford protection to holders of the Notes in the event of a fundamental change or other corporate transaction involving us except to the extent described in the indentures governing the Notes.

The increase in the conversion rate for Notes converted in connection with a make-whole fundamental change or a notice of redemption may not adequately compensate note holders for any lost value of their Notes as a result of such transaction or redemption.

If a make-whole fundamental change occurs prior to the maturity date or if we deliver a notice of redemption, we will, under certain circumstances, increase the conversion rate by a number of additional shares of our common stock for Notes converted in connection with such make-whole fundamental change or Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption that are converted during the related redemption period. The increase in the conversion rate will be determined based on the date on which the make-whole fundamental change occurs or the date we deliver the notice of redemption, as the case may be, and the price paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of our common stock in the make-whole fundamental change or determined with respect to the notice of redemption, as the case may be. The increase in the conversion rate for Notes converted in connection with a make-whole fundamental change or called (or deemed called) for redemption that are converted during the related redemption period may not adequately compensate a note holder for any lost value of the Notes as a result of such transaction or redemption. Furthermore, if we call only a portion of the outstanding Notes for redemption, only those Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption will become convertible as a result of such call for redemption and only the conversion rate of Notes converted in connection with such notice of redemption will be increased. Accordingly, Notes not called for redemption will not become convertible if not otherwise convertible at such time and will remain outstanding, and may have reduced liquidity and a resulting reduced trading price.

In addition for the 2026 Notes, if the price per share of our common stock is greater than $325.00 per share or less than $44.55 per share (in each case, subject to adjustment), no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate. Moreover, in no event will the conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of 2026 Notes as a result of this adjustment exceed 22.4466 shares of common stock, subject to adjustment. The 2023 Notes contain substantially similar conversion features.

Our obligation to increase the conversion rate for Notes converted in connection with a make-whole fundamental change or Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption that are converted during the related redemption period could be considered a penalty, in which case the enforceability thereof would be subject to general principles of reasonableness and equitable remedies.

The conversion rate of the Notes may not be adjusted for all dilutive events.

The conversion rate of the Notes is subject to adjustment for certain events, including, but not limited to, the issuance of certain stock dividends on our common stock, the issuance of certain rights or warrants, subdivisions, combinations, distributions of capital stock, indebtedness, or assets, cash dividends, and certain issuer tender or exchange offers. However, the conversion rate
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will not be adjusted for other events, such as a third-party tender or exchange offer or an issuance of our common stock for cash, that may adversely affect the trading price of the Notes or our common stock. An event that adversely affects the value of the Notes may occur, and that event may not result in an adjustment to the conversion rate.

Provisions in the indenture for the Notes may deter or prevent a business combination that may be favorable to our security holders.

If a fundamental change occurs prior to the maturity date, holders of the Notes will have the right, at their option, to require us to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes. In addition, if a make-whole fundamental change occurs prior the maturity date, we will in some cases be required to increase the conversion rate for a holder that elects to convert its Notes in connection with such make-whole fundamental change. Furthermore, the indentures for the Notes will prohibit us from engaging in certain mergers or acquisitions unless, among other things, the surviving entity assumes our obligations under the Notes. These and other provisions in the indenture could deter or prevent a third party from acquiring us even when the acquisition may be favorable to our security holders.

Some significant restructuring transactions may not constitute a fundamental change, in which case we would not be obligated to offer to repurchase the Notes.

Upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, our note holders have the right to require us to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes. However, the fundamental change provisions will not afford protection to holders of notes in the event of other transactions that could adversely affect the Notes. For example, a significant change in the composition of our board of directors or transactions such as leveraged recapitalizations, refinancings, restructurings, or acquisitions initiated by us may not constitute a fundamental change requiring us to offer to repurchase the Notes. In the event of any such transaction, the holders would not have the right to require us to repurchase the Notes, even though each of these transactions could increase the amount of our indebtedness, or otherwise adversely affect our capital structure or any credit ratings, thereby adversely affecting the holders of Notes.

We have not registered, and are not required to register, the Notes or the common stock issuable upon
conversion of the Notes, if any, which will limit our note holders’ ability to resell them.

The Notes and the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, if any, have not been, and are not required to be, registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws. Unless the Notes and any shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, if any, have been registered, the Notes and such shares may not be transferred or resold except in a transaction exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. We do not intend to file a registration statement for the resale of the notes and the common stock, if any, into which the notes are convertible.

We cannot assure you that an active trading market will develop for the Notes.

We do not intend to apply to list the Notes on any securities exchange or to arrange for quotation on any automated dealer quotation system. The liquidity of the trading market in the Notes, and the market price quoted for the Notes, may be adversely affected by changes in the overall market for this type of security and by changes in our financial performance or prospects or in the prospects for companies in our industry generally. As a result, an active trading market may not develop for the Notes. If an active trading market does not develop or is not maintained, the market price and liquidity of the Notes may be adversely affected. In that case note holders may not be able to sell their Notes at a particular time or may not be able to sell their Notes at a favorable price.

Any adverse rating of the Notes may cause their trading price to fall.

We do not intend to seek a rating on the Notes. However, if a rating service were to rate the Notes and if such rating service were to lower its rating on the Notes below the rating initially assigned to the Notes or otherwise announces its intention to put the Notes on credit watch, the trading price of the Notes could decline.

Note holders may be subject to tax if we make or fail to make certain adjustments to the conversion rate of the Notes even though they do not receive a corresponding cash distribution.

The conversion rate of the Notes is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, including the payment of cash dividends. If the conversion rate is adjusted as a result of a distribution that is taxable to our common stockholders, such as a cash dividend,
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note holders may be deemed to have received a dividend subject to U.S. federal income tax without the receipt of any cash. In addition, a failure to adjust (or to adjust adequately) the conversion rate after an event that increases a note holder’s proportionate interest in us could be treated as a deemed taxable dividend to the holder. If a make-whole fundamental change occurs prior to the maturity date or if we deliver a notice of redemption, we will, under some circumstances, increase the conversion rate for Notes converted in connection with the make-whole fundamental change or called (or deemed called) for redemption that are converted during the related redemption period. Such increase may also be treated as a distribution subject to U.S. federal income tax as a dividend. If a note holder is a non-U.S. holder, any deemed dividend would generally be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax, which may be set off against subsequent payments on the Notes or other amounts received by the holder.

Because the Notes will initially be held in book-entry form, holders must rely on The Depository Trust Company (DTC) procedures to receive communications relating to the Notes and exercise their rights and remedies.

We have issued the Notes in the form of one or more global notes registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC. Beneficial interests in global notes will be shown on, and transfers of global notes will be effected only through, the records maintained by DTC. Except in limited circumstances, we will not issue certificated notes.

Accordingly, if a note holder owns a beneficial interest in a global note, then it will not be considered an owner or holder of the Notes. Instead, DTC or its nominee will be the sole holder of the Notes. Unlike persons who have certificated notes registered in their names, owners of beneficial interests in global notes will not have the direct right to act on our solicitations for consents or requests for waivers or other actions from holders. Instead, those beneficial owners will be permitted to act only to the extent that they have received appropriate proxies to do so from DTC or, if applicable, a DTC participant. The applicable procedures for the granting of these proxies may not be sufficient to enable owners of beneficial interests in global notes to vote on any requested actions on a timely basis. In addition, notices and other communications relating to the Notes will be sent to DTC. We expect DTC to forward any such communications to DTC participants, which in turn would forward such communications to indirect DTC participants. However, we can make no assurances that note holders will timely receive any such communications.

The capped call transactions may affect the value of the Notes and our common stock.

In connection with the issuance of the Notes, we entered into capped call transactions with certain financial institutions (the option counterparties). The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution upon any conversion of the Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount upon conversion of the Notes, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. In connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped call transactions, the option counterparties and/or their respective affiliates purchased shares of our common stock and/or entered into various derivative transactions with respect to our common stock. This activity could have increased (or reduced the size of any decrease in) the market price of our common stock or the Notes at that time. In addition, the option counterparties and/or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding various derivatives with respect to our common stock and/or purchasing or selling our common stock in secondary market transactions (and are likely to do so during any observation period related to a conversion of notes or following any repurchase of notes by us on any fundamental change repurchase date or otherwise). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the price of our common stock or the Notes. The potential effect, if any, of these transactions and activities on the price of our common stock or the Notes will depend in part on market conditions and cannot be ascertained at this time. Any of these activities could adversely affect the value of our common stock.

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Risks related to our common stock

We have never paid cash dividends on our capital stock, and we do not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future.

We have never paid cash dividends on any of our capital stock and currently intend to retain our future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be the sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.

Our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or change in our management that stockholders consider favorable and cause our stock price to decline.

Certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and restated bylaws and Delaware law could discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or change in our management that the stockholders of our company consider favorable. These provisions:
authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could issue to increase the number of outstanding shares and to discourage a takeover attempt;
prohibit stockholder action by written consent, requiring all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of stockholders;
establish advance notice procedures for nominating candidates to our board of directors or proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at stockholder meetings;
limit the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;
prohibit stockholders from cumulating their votes for the election of directors;
permit newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors or vacancies on our board of directors to be filled only by majority vote of our remaining directors, even if less than a quorum is then in office;
provide that our board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal our bylaws;
establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board are elected at one time;
provide that our directors may be removed only for “cause” and only with the approval of the holders of at least 66 2/3rds percent of our outstanding stock; and
require super-majority voting to amend certain provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws.
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law may also discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company.
The exclusive forum provision in our amended and restated bylaws may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims.

Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all claims brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. In April 2020, we amended and restated our restated bylaws to provide that the federal district courts of the United States of America will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act (a Federal Forum Provision). Our decision to adopt a Federal Forum Provision followed a decision by the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware holding that such provisions are facially valid under Delaware law. While there can be no assurance that federal courts or other state courts will follow the holding of the Delaware Supreme Court or determine that the Federal Forum Provision should be enforced in a particular case, application of the Federal Forum Provision generally means that suits brought by our stockholders to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act must be brought in federal court and cannot be brought in state court. While neither the exclusive forum provision nor the Federal Forum Provision applies to suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all claims brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Accordingly, actions by our stockholders to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder also must be brought in federal court. Our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in any of our securities shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to our exclusive forum provisions, including the Federal Forum Provision. These provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum of their choosing for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees.

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The market price of our common stock has been, and may continue to be, volatile, and your investment in our stock could suffer a decline in value.

There has been significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of equity securities, which is often unrelated or disproportionate to the financial performance of the companies issuing the securities. These broad market fluctuations may negatively affect the market price of our common stock. The market price of our common stock could fluctuate significantly in response to the factors described in this “Risk Factors” section and elsewhere in this Form 10-Q and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
actual or anticipated variation in anticipated operating results of us or our competitors;
the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
announcements by us or our competitors of new solutions, new or terminated significant contracts, commercial relationships or capital commitments;
changes in the regulatory environment affecting our healthcare customers, including impediments to their ability to obtain reimbursement for their services, and other actual or anticipated legal or regulatory developments in the United States or foreign countries;
actual or anticipated developments in our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;
failure of securities analysts to maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;
commencement of, or our involvement in, litigation;
announced or completed acquisitions of businesses, technologies or assets by us or our competitor;
changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;
price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our common stock;
our decision to seek additional equity or debt financing;
our public float relative to the total number of shares of our common stock that are issued and outstanding;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;
rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
the dissemination of adverse or misleading reports or opinions about our business;
any major change in our management;
unfavorable economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets; and
other events or factors, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism or health epidemics or contagious diseases.

Our business is subject to the risks of earthquakes, fire, floods and other natural catastrophic events, and to interruption by man-made problems such as power disruptions or terrorism.


Our corporate headquarters are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region known for seismic activity, and many critical components of our solutions are sourced in Asia and Mexico, regions known to suffer natural disasters.disasters and epidemics or contagious diseases. A significant natural disaster, such as an earthquake, fire or a flood, or epidemic or contagious disease, occurring at our headquarters, our other facilities or where our contract manufacturer or its suppliers are located, could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, acts of terrorism could cause disruptions in our business, the businesses of our customers and suppliers, or the economy as a whole. We also rely on information technology systems to communicate among our workforce located worldwide, and in particular, our senior management, general and administrative, and research and development activities that are coordinated with our corporate headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Any disruption to our internal communications, whether caused by a natural disaster, an epidemic or contagious disease, or by man-made problems, such as power disruptions, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Asia or Mexico could delay our research and development efforts, cause delays or cancellations of customer orders or delay deployment of our solutions, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.


If we do not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures in the future, the accuracy and timeliness of our financial reporting may be adversely affected.


The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting annually and disclosure controls and procedures quarterly. In particular, we must obtain confidence in our internal control over financial reporting to allow management to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
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reporting as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. To the extent we find a material weakness or other deficiency in our internal control over financial reporting, the accuracy and timeliness of our financial reporting may be adversely affected.
Multiple negative consequences could ensue if a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting is identified in the future, or we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner, or we do not maintain effective controls. For example, our reported financial results could be materially misstated or could be restated, we could receive an adverse opinion regarding our controls from our independent registered public accounting firm, (once such opinion is required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), or we could be subject to investigations or sanctions by regulatory authorities. All of these outcomes would require additional financial and management resources, and the market price of our stock could decline.


We will continue to incur substantial costs as a result of operating as a public company and our management devotes substantial time to public company compliance obligations.


As a public company, we incur substantial legal, accounting and other expenses. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and our stock exchange, impose various requirements on public companies, including certain corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance requirements. Moreover, these rules and regulations, along with compliance with accounting principles and regulatory interpretations of such principles, as amended by the JOBS Act, have increased and will

continue to increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs and have made and will continue to make some activities more time-consuming and costly.


We face risks related to securities litigation that could result in significant legal expenses and settlement or damage awards.


We have in the past been, and may in the future become, subject to claims and litigation alleging violations of the securities laws or other related claims, which could harm our business and require us to incur significant costs. For example, a purported securities class action was filed in August 2013 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against us and certain of our officers and directors. The suit purported to allege claims for allegedly misleading statements regarding our business and financial results. This suit was settled in 2016. The settlement, which called for payment of $9 million, was funded entirely and directly by our insurance carriers and paid during the three months ended September 30, 2016. Regardless of the outcome, these matters or future litigation may require significant attention from management and could result in significant legal expenses, settlement costs or damage awards that could have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

The SEC “conflict minerals” rule has caused us to incur additional expenses, could limit the supply and increase the cost of certain metals used in manufacturing our products and could make us less competitive in our target markets.

We are required to disclose the origin, source and chain of custody of specified minerals, known as conflict minerals, that are necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured. The SEC requires companies to obtain sourcing data from suppliers, engage in supply chain due diligence and file annually with the SEC a specialized disclosure report on Form SD covering the prior calendar year. The rule could limit our ability to source at competitive prices and to secure sufficient quantities of certain minerals used in the manufacture of our products, as the number of suppliers that provide conflict-free minerals may be limited. In addition, we have incurred, and may continue to incur, costs associated with complying with the rule, such as costs related to auditing our compliance with the rules, costs related to the determination of the origin, source and chain of custody of the minerals used in our products, the adoption of conflict minerals-related governance policies, processes and controls and possible changes to products or sources of supply as a result of such activities. Within our supply chain, we may not be able to sufficiently verify the origins of the relevant minerals used in our products through the data collection and due diligence procedures that we implement, which may harm our reputation. Furthermore, we may encounter challenges in satisfying those customers that require that all of the components of our products be certified as conflict free, and if we cannot satisfy these customers, they may choose a competitor’s products. We continue to investigate the presence of conflict materials within our supply chain.

Risks related to our common stock

The market price of our common stock has been, and may continue to be, volatile, and your investment in our stock could suffer a decline in value.

There has been significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of equity securities, which is often unrelated or disproportionate to the financial performance of the companies issuing the securities. These broad market fluctuations may negatively affect the market price of our common stock. The market price of our common stock could fluctuate significantly in response to the factors described in this “Risk Factors” section and elsewhere in this Form 10-K and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
actual or anticipated variation in anticipated operating results of us or our competitors;
the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
announcements by us or our competitors of new solutions, new or terminated significant contracts, commercial relationships or capital commitments;
changes in the regulatory environment affecting our healthcare customers, including impediments to their ability to obtain reimbursement for their services;
failure of securities analysts to maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;
commencement of, or our involvement in, litigation;
announced or completed acquisitions of businesses, technologies or assets by us or our competitor;
changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;
price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our common stock;
our decision to seek equity or debt financing;

our public float relative to the total number of shares of our common stock that are issued and outstanding;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;
rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
the dissemination of adverse or misleading reports or opinions about our business;
any major change in our management;
unfavorable economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets; and
other events or factors, including those resulting from war or incidents of terrorism.


If securities or industry analysts issue an adverse or misleading opinion regarding our stock or do not publish research or reports about our business, our stock price could decline.


The trading market for our common stock depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us and our business. We do not control these analysts or the content and opinions included in their reports. The price of our common stock could decline if one or more analysts downgrade our common stock or if those analysts issue other unfavorable commentary or cease publishing reports about us or our business. If one or more analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports about our company, we could lose visibility in the financial market, which in turn could cause our stock price to decline. Further, securities or industry analysts may elect not to provide research coverage of our common stock and such lack of research coverage may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.


We have never paid cash dividends on our capital stock, and we do not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future.

We have never paid cash dividends on any of our capital stock and currently intend to retain our future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be the sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.

Our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or change in our management that stockholders consider favorable and cause our stock price to decline.

Certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and restated bylaws and Delaware law could discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or change in our management that the stockholders of our company consider favorable. These provisions:
authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could issue to increase the number of outstanding shares and to discourage a takeover attempt;
prohibit stockholder action by written consent, requiring all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of stockholders;
establish advance notice procedures for nominating candidates to our board of directors or proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at stockholder meetings;
limit the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;
prohibit stockholders from cumulating their votes for the election of directors;
permit newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors or vacancies on our board of directors to be filled only by majority vote of our remaining directors, even if less than a quorum is then in office;
provide that our board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal our bylaws;
establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board are elected at one time;
provide that our directors may be removed only for “cause” and only with the approval of the holders of at least 66 2/3rds percent of our outstanding stock; and
require super-majority voting to amend certain provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws.
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law may also discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company.
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
None.

Item 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Item 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.

Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 4.    Mine Safety Disclosures
None.

Item 5.Other Information

Item 5.Other Information
None.



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Item 6.Exhibits
Item 6.Exhibit Index
Number
Exhibits
Exhibit title
Exhibit
Number
10.01
Exhibit title
31.0110.02
10.03
10.04
10.05
10.06
10.07
31.01
31.02
32.01+
101.INSInline XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH - The instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document
101.CALtags are embedded within the Inline XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document
document.
+101.SCHInline XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document
101.CALInline XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEFInline XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document
101.LABInline XBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document
101.PREInline XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document
104Cover Page Interactive Data File - (formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
+This certification shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any filings.



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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Date: November 1, 2017August 4, 2021By:
/S/    Brent D. Lang
Brent D. Lang
Chief Executive Officer
Date: November 1, 2017August 4, 2021By:
/S/    Justin R. SpencerSteven J. Anheier
Justin R. SpencerSteven J. Anheier
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)




EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit
Number
Exhibit title
31.01
31.02
32.01+
101.INSXBRL Instance Document
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document
+This certification shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any filings.


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