Randall Lipps
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…on the Omnicell team. Well, we delivered solid financial and operational performance in the third quarter, exceeding the high-end of our guidance ranges as our customers began to return to more normal business operations. This enabled us to resume those implementations that were delayed in the first half of the year, and maybe more importantly in the third quarter, we drove significant increases in new customer wins and bookings, particularly with the Top 300 U.S. health systems, as customers accelerate their focus on the critical pharmacy supply chain. Now against that backdrop, two things are now clear. First, as our customers continue to navigate the impact of COVID-19, the need for our medication management automation solutions is more strategically relevant than ever. Based on the bookings and implementations we saw in the third quarter, our partners are investing in their pharmacy supply chain, which is being recognized as critical to their ability to effectively manage in a post-COVID world. There is widespread and growing acknowledgment that more sophisticated automation and digitization capabilities enable healthcare providers to focus more on patient care and reduce costly errors. The second part of the backdrop, our customers have resumed their pre-COVID purchasing patterns. In other words, not only has the pause we saw in the first half of the year-ended, but our health partners are buying at levels consistent with strategic investment for the long-term. We believe this reflects their confidence in their financial position and forecast and in turn, it supports our confidence in our outlook for the remainder of the year and for 2021. And as a result, I am pleased to announce that we are reinstating our pre-pandemic product bookings guidance of $865 million to $900 million for the full year, 2020, which is unchanged from the initial guidance we provided in February. This includes bookings that were paused due to COVID in the first half, which either have been booked already in the third quarter or expected to book in the fourth quarter. Now, let me provide some more insight and commentary on our long-term sole source partnership strategy. Our go-to-market strategy to increase our long-term sole source partnerships continues to gain momentum. We have been implementing and expanding this strategy successfully for the last two years. And in 2018, we realigned our commercial structure to focus on the Top 300 health systems in the U.S. with dedicated customer success executives. And we believe that the Top 300 represent the vast majority of the available markets we target. That was a smart investment of resources for us as our recent announcements demonstrate. As at the end of the third quarter more than half of the top 300 health systems, as defined by definitive healthcare are current Omnicell customers. During this quarter, we added two new long-term sole source contracts and were honored to have these two leading health systems join us on the journey to the Autonomous Pharmacy. This brings the total number to 143 long-term sole source partners within the Top 300 U.S. health systems, most with a duration of 5 years to 10 years. As discussed on our prior call, with the majority of these sole source arrangements, we have a co-developed multi-year medication management automation plan to deliver improved accuracy, patient, and financial outcomes. In other words, a multi-year plan to move our platform in place so that we can hit the change – we can affect the changes to drive these outcomes. Now, turning to key customer engagements in this quarter, congratulations, I might say to the Omnicell team, on these significant wins, especially in the time of COVID. First, Lehigh Valley Health Network, based in Allentown PA is our 142nd long-term sole source customer. They've signed a seven-year agreement for XT systems and Anesthesia Workstations for their flagship hospital and network locations. Lehigh especially noted the value and opportunity of the Autonomous Pharmacy as a key driver of their purchasing decision. Our 143rd long-term sole source agreement is a new 10-year partnership with Allina Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA. They will be converting existing medication management systems across their health system network to Omnicell's platform, including Central Pharmacy, IV Compounding, the XT Series and technology-enabled services. Also Georgia-based Coastal Community Health, a current IV customer has signed a 10-year sole source agreement for our full portfolio of solutions, expanding Omnicell's footprint across the system. We won our first official Central Pharmacy Dispensing Service with Memorial at Gulfport in Mississippi. They are looking to leverage XR2 technology to expand their cartfill distribution model to now support automated systems filling. In our international market, we continue to expand our footprint in the Middle East with a new partnership with the Dubai Health Authority for our [indiscernible] software supply chain solution. We've also recently won our first robotic dispensing system deal with CHU Tangiers, a leading academic hospital within the government hospital system of Morocco. In addition to the customer wins I just spoke to, we also are expanding technology-enabled services, which are a key component of our strategy. To that end, we are building on EnlivenHealth, we have successfully launched Omnicell One and we recently completed our acquisition of 340B Link on October 1. Now EnlivenHealth division, formerly known as Population Health Solutions, provides patient engagement and communication SaaS solutions for retail pharmacies and health plans. We noted last quarter's conference call that we successfully launched our first location with Walmart as part of an enterprise wide rollout of our medication synchronization platform to all Walmart locations nationwide. Today, I am particularly pleased to note that the Walgreen's popular Save A Trip Refill program is powered by EnlivenHealth medication synchronization technology. We're proud to support these two leading providers in this important work that they do to measurably improve medication adherence and health outcome through EnlivenHealth's patient engagement and communication solutions. These systems are doing real work, they impact healthcare by ensuring patients get the meds they need as easily as possible and note, when they're not picking up their meds that they get engaged in their pharmacy solutions. Next, last quarter we announced another key milestone on the journey to the fully Autonomous Pharmacy, Omnicell One, which became available in August, leveraging cloud-based data and predictive analytics, Omnicell One provide pharmacy wide optimization through real-time visibility, as well as actionable insights and workflows to help pharmacies operate more efficiently. As a result of COVID-19, many of our customers have prioritized investments in supply chain optimization in order to provide critical care to patients and are increasingly turning to Omnicell One to help them understand where and how to make improvements. Omnicell One helps pharmacists and technicians focus on what matters most, so they can work at the highest level of their license and spend more time on direct patient care. Customer interest in Omnicell One is strong. We recently won Archbold Health [Phonetic] and they are anticipated to go live in the coming weeks along with other customers. Now similar to EnlivenHealth and Omnicell One, Omnicell 340B is a true technology-enabled service that combines analytics, workflow, and experts to drive significant value for our customers. Omnicell 340B's business accelerates the development of Omnicell's autonomous pharmacy and is a high-growth software-enabled reoccurring service revenue business. Omnicell's 340B capabilities are critical to health systems to enable them to manage their medications inventory for all their patients across all care settings. Omnicell 340B is a compelling, strategic and synergistic addition to our tech-enabled services portfolio and is an attractive growing market with cross-selling opportunities for Omnicell. This acquisition is immediately accretive to non-GAAP EPS and we are thrilled to partner with all of these great healthcare organizations as they seek to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care. Now, given the strong recovery in bookings from the first half of the year and a return to more normal business operations, we are accelerating hiring in the areas of cloud engineering and professional services. We are also ramping up implementation and customer success teams aligned with our customer’s installation timelines. I'd say in summary, we are very pleased with our strong financial and operational performance this quarter. It is clear, now more than ever that our customers recognize the criticality of Omnicell's medication management automation solutions and we are honored that they are joining us on the journey toward the autonomous pharmacy. Now, I'd like to turn it back over to Peter to give us an update on third quarter financials, fourth quarter guidance and a little prelim for 2021 revenue. Peter?