David Lester: | Thanks, Dave. And, yes, I'd like to take a few minutes to elaborate a little bit on the key (inaudible) and results that Dave just went through.
We finished the first quarter with revenues of $1,317,347, an increase of 97 percent over the same period in 2013 generating positive net cash of $226,727 from operational activities. However, we had a net loss of $653,315 for the first quarter primarily due to two factors -- one, the one-time settlement to LDM, which resolved all patent issues and enables us to promote our eCoupons to their network of up to 100,000 healthcare providers as well as receive additional revenue share through promotion of their sponsored patient education within OPTIMIZERx's network; number two, non-cash payment of stock to vendors, former executive, and employees.
Moving forward, we expect growing profitability for the remainder of 2014 based primarily on escalation of revenues. Despite nearly doubling our sales over first quarter of 2013, which is generally, the first quarter is generally a slower sales quarter based on finalizing budgets in receiving new annual assets, first quarter of 2014 revenues would have been higher based on two important factors. The first one is that Allscripts had a privacy and technical issue that affected their distribution of eCoupons and other programs during a significant period of time it took to fully resolved the issue. The second is one of our largest clients interrupted their program to determine promotional impact and return on investment of that particular program. Both of the above have been resolved. Allscripts has resolved technical and privacy issues. It is now beginning to roll out activation of SampleMD's eCoupon automation unless providers opt out. We anticipate this to have a significant impact on June sales and beyond once this is completed by increasing our reach to another 20,000 physicians.
Novartis-Alcon has reactivated their program based on confirming through an independent analytics firm, an outstanding ROI on SampleMD's eCoupon promotion. Furthermore, this data was highlighted by Novartis during a corporate sponsorship of the inaugural CBInet Pharmaceutical EHR conference which focused on leveraging opportunities for promotional effectiveness and brand awareness. This conference was attended by over a 150 pharmaceutical brand and marketing executives and highlighted industry luminaries, panel discussions, and client presentations. Dave Harrell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was a noted keynote speaker, and many clients and partners cited unsolicited testimonials at the success they have experienced engaging with us. With that, we will be a lead sponsor for similar conference in October as requested by many of the pharmaceutical clients and partners we engage.
These marketing efforts, along with our expert support team and proven reputation, has enabled us to acquire more manufacturers and brands, including Baush & Lomb and AstraZeneca's promoted portfolio leading drugs like Crestor, Seroquel, and others. AstraZeneca represents a very important win strategically, too, based on the fact that they were previously using a competitive platform.
Our success of acquiring, integrating, and expanding into other promotional EHR/eRx platforms continues to grow as well. We are just launching our first initial brands into eHealthline, as well as we will be completing our integration into LDMs network and others.
We also expect to launch our patient savings and support within Quest Care360 by the end of June 2014. Quest Diagnostics is the world's leading provider of diagnostics information servicing approximately have to the physicians and hospitals in the U.S. and touches the lives of approximately 30 percent of all American adults this year.
We are in very productive discussions with other leading EHRs and expect our active network to nearly double by the end of the year. With the growth of both our pharmaceutical products and our distribution network, we remain confident that are distributions will double over last year.
To support this growth, we have completed the development and migration of SampleMD 2.0's on-demand rule-based content delivery platform. The system can now manage up to a million rules and return the appropriate content within under one second. This allows unsurpassed response time to avoid delays, and the ability to meet the upcoming dramatic scale we expect.
On top of building our updated software solution, we also updated our infrastructure by replacing and updating our computers in a high availability environment, taking greater precautions for security, and building out architecture to facilitate disaster recovery with a second facility computer environment. We believe this technology investment will increase performance, simplify integrations, ensure availability, and protect the investments of our shareholders.
During the first quarter, we also successfully completed the $10 million capital raise and exercise the option to redeem Vicis Capital Master Fund's holdings in our company. By successfully executing these initiatives, we reduced fully diluted shares by approximately 7 million and provided an additional $3 million in working capital to support company's growth and eliminate dividend payments and other favorable provisions of Vicis preferred stock.
Additionally, after extensive negotiations, OPTIMIZERx and LDM executed a settlement agreement and filed a stipulation to dismiss the litigation with prejudice on March 17th, 2014, which the District Court entered on March 19th 2014. This resolves all patent issues and enables us to promote our eCoupons to their network of up to a 100,000 healthcare providers, as well as receive additional revenue share through promotion of their sponsored patient education within our network.
What I'm really pleased to announce today and what I'm even more happy to introduce, Mr. Douglas P. Baker, who is joining organization as its new chief financial officer. With that, I'd like to allow Doug a few minutes to introduce himself and talk about his background. Doug? |