Joe Kiani
Analyst · Raymond James. Your line is open
Thank you, Micah. The COVID pandemic has put the spotlight on Masimo, taking care of patients the most effective way the first time is no longer only on top of leading institutions minds, but it's an imperative for every hospital. Masimo's technologies are the best available and have been proven to make a positive difference in the care of patients from neonates to adults, all saving costs and maximizing hospitals precious resources. The strong demand for technology was evident in our OEM business doubling and direct sales growing rapidly as well. For example, a route connectivity platform unit sales increase more than five folds over the prior year quarter. We also experienced increased demand for our Patient SafetyNet in-hospital monitoring system. Patient SafetyNet together with bedside devices like Root allow more patients to be continuously monitored on the postsurgical floor and improve patient outcomes. In fact, multiple studies conducted at Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center showed that Patient SafetyNet helped eliminate preventable deaths or brain damage due to opioid-induced respiratory depression in Masimo monitor patients over a 10-year period and help them maintain a 50% reduction and unplanned ICU transfers and a 60% reduction and rescue events resulting at about a $7 million savings annually. We're also seeing strong demand for hospital deploying Root with wearable untethered Radius PPG sensors to monitor COVID and other patients arterial oxygen saturation, pulse rate and respiration rate remotely using our Radius PPG wireless sensors, hospitals are able to move patient monitoring equipment outside of a patient's room to ensure continuous monitoring from a distance thereby reducing transmission risks and increasing both clinician and patient safety. The reception today from Masimo SafetyNet, our cloud-based remote patient management solution, which includes Radius PPG, a smartphone app, and a central command console, has been overwhelmingly positive. As many hospitals strive to expand their capacity by taking patients outside of the hospital and into the home. Using our Masimo SafetyNet system for remote settings, hospitals are now able to monitor patients not just at home, but many other places, keeping hospital beds open for more severely ill patients. Our technology monitors, blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate and respiration rate to provide caregivers with insight into patient's status and recovery progress. Since the full market release in April, 120 customers have deployed Masimo SafetyNet to deal with the COVID-19 patients, surge, many of them remotely monitoring their patients and the patient's home long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and even convention centers. Yesterday, we announced a significant expansion to the Masimo SafetyNet platform with the introduction of Radius T, a wearable wireless sensor that provides continuous body temperature measurements by augmenting the already powerful Masimo SafetyNet, which features Radius PPG, tethered less pulse oximetry with Radius T, the remote patient management solution becomes capable of tracking for vital signs, oxygen, saturation, respiration rate, pulse rate, and now temperature. Making it an ideal solution for assessing the status of patients with suspected or low acuity COVID-19. Among other remote patient management uses, which we hope will continue expanding. Unlike spot check thermometry solutions, Radius T measures, body temperature continuously providing a remote notification when a patient's temperature is outside of clinician specified range, giving peace of mind to caregiver and patients alike. Apply to the skin; Radius T uses proprietary algorithms to measure the patient's body temperature, not just external skin temperature, with laboratory accuracy within plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius. Whereas other thermometers solutions typically have laboratory accuracy within plus or minus 0.2 degrees Celsius. Each [shower] proof single patient use sensor last, up to eight days and can be worn throughout the day and night along patients to continue normal daily activities while still being monitored. We also received recently received FDA clearance for Centroid, which is a wearable wireless sensor that monitors patient position to help clinicians reduce pressure ulcers or bedsores, and to alert clinicians to sudden movements such as fall events. In addition, Centroid detects chest movement to continuously measure respiration rate. Centroid pairs with the root platform using Bluetooth, the data transmitted by Centroid can be displayed in various formats on route giving clinicians multiple ways to assess adherence, to protocols regarding tissue stress and tailor care to the specific needs of each patient. Pressure sores affect nearly 2.5 million patients per year in the U.S. hospitals alone. And approximately 60,000 of those patients die as a direct result. With that source being as a never event by CMS, which can lead to penalties from Medicare reimbursements we believe Centroid provides substantial value to hospitals by providing information to help them minimize these events. We also recently announced our latest automation and connectivity solution UniView: 60; which uses the Masimo hospital automation platform to aggregate and display patient information on a digital display just outside each patient's room, allowing clinicians to familiarize themselves with the most relevancy payout of each patients case at the door in 60 seconds or less before they see the patient. UniView: 60 is intended to improve clinical workflows by helping increase clinicians awareness of important patient information and advisories, which can be optimally displayed based on hospital preferences. Unlike paper records and notes, UniView: 60 utilizes its connection to various hospital information systems to display the most appropriate up-to-date information directly outside the patient's room and an effort to help increase clinical efficiency and improve hand-off communication between staff. Studies have shown that inadequate communication related to patient hand-off are often where patient's safety fails first. In fact poor hand-offs were a contributing factor in nearly 80% of adverse events reviewed in a tenure study conductor by Dr. Peter Pronovost and published in 2016. In addition, an adequate hand-off was shown to contribute to $1.7 billion in malpractice costs over a five year period and a study published by the joint commission in 2017. UniView: 60 is one of the many innovations we have developed to take advantage of the powerful connectivity and data handling architecture of the Masimo hospital automation platform, which connects systems across the continuum of care from bedside monitors and connected third party devices to electronic medical records. UniView: 60 takes advantage of this flow of data by optimizing the presentation of pertinent information about each patient's case on an easy to interpret customizable display. In closing, we are proud of our pace of innovation and ability to respond to crisis and partner with our clinical stakeholders to better care for their patients. Our global organization remains focused on delivering on our commitments and responsibilities to our customers and ultimately the patients during this difficult time. We have so many clinically significant products based on our pioneering inventions that are helping clinicians care for over 200 million patients a year, and we have many more exciting solutions to come. Our future looks bright as we dedicate ourselves to our mission of improving patient outcomes and reducing the cost of care. With that we'll open the call to questions. Operator?