William Febbo
Analyst · Ryan Daniels with William Blair. Please go ahead
Thank you, Ron. Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining us on the call today. I am excited to report that we've had a very strong start to the new fiscal year. In fact, a stronger start than any other year-over-year in my tenure. At a high level, we grew the quarter's top-line revenue by 48% as compared to a year-ago period. We did this, while ramping our digital health platform with additional reach to HCPs and patients, new solutions for our clients, and an enhanced team to support further enterprise growth as we see in front of us. In many ways, the quarter's financial performance has been underpinned by the company's core DNA. From our management team to each of our employees, team members, we've built an incredibly vibrant technology business, built on the enhancement of stakeholder engagement and aligned to the patient journey. Moreover, we're expanding our core capabilities, which is a testament to the scalability of the technology, its relevance to our clients and partners, and the ingenuity of our team. We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the business is able to support the growth of our future revenue streams, and we are already seeing those revenue streams begin to bear fruit early on in 2021. In serving as digital bridge across stakeholder classes, our platform not only sits centrally to all involved, but it goes further to positively impact the lives of people daily. When we talk about our platform and the patient journey, we're referring to the physician engagement directly with the patient, which is commonly referred to as, at the point of care. Our integrated platform serves as a physician's resource for on-demand therapeutic knowledge, while simultaneously improving affordability and adherence for patients seeking treatment. Outside their direct care setting, the platform helps life science implement scalable and personalized support programs that effectively aid patients, in managing their treatment in accordance with their overall health goals. The outcomes produced from these remote care engagements have exceeded our expectations, and we anticipate we'll continue to scale over time. We are continuously optimizing our platform, removing the complexities and hurdles around connectivity between doctors, patients, and manufacturers. Because our platform is so seamlessly integrated into the HCP workflows, physicians find that our services are complementary and a welcome supplement to their critical decision-making process, in their patients' care journey. Likewise, manufacturers are relieved that they do not have to navigate individual access to the hundreds of EHR systems that physicians are operating in. As a result of these efforts, demand for our services remains strong, and we continue to focus on capturing recurring enterprise revenues. We announced 46 deals in the pipeline on our Q4 earnings call, and as of today, we've closed 33 of those deals, which include client renewals totaling $25 million in annual contract value, and we expect to close an additional $15 million of the $50 million we discussed in the last call, tremendous work by the team. Our land and expand strategy is working as we are penetrating more clients, and they are engaging more of our solutions, a key indicator of our scalability and ever-growing total addressable market. As we have repositioned our sales and marketing efforts to drive higher dollar contracts within our client base, the average value of recently won contracts was close to $1 million, about 3x from previous years. We continue to experience a strong renewal rate, exceeding the 86% we've talked about, which is garnered by continued solid third-party return on investment, or ROI, from Fiscal Year 2002 programs. As you can see from our results that were posted earlier, our financial and operational performance is highly insulated from macro shocks, as the acceleration and adoption of digital health remains a long-term trend. Doug will go into this in a bit more detail later, but I wanted to point out that we've strengthened our balance sheet with a public offering in February. The raise has provided us with a strengthened foundation to execute on our strategic goals without delay, including building out innovative solutions, as well as entertaining any opportunistic M&A activity, we may come across. Moreover, we closed the transaction without having to structure dilutive instruments into the deal. In watching the adoption rate of digital health explode even through the pandemic, we believe that shoring up our balance sheet was a wise move. Our improved operating leverage will allow us to navigate our growing total addressable market, in addition to any potential needs related to periods of rapid customer acquisition. As COVID vaccinations bring about additional demand for doctors' visits that may have been delayed in 2020, as well as pent-up demand for new medications whose launches were impeded, we wanted to ensure that we are correctly positioned to capture any additional opportunistic recurring revenue. In thinking about the digital transformation fueling our industry, we really have put a lot of time and effort into the scalability of our platform, and we've worked diligently with our partners to develop new digital services to improve the way doctors engage with their patients. As we operate on a unified technology backbone, new services can easily be added to existing client subscriptions. In terms of expectations, the solid growth that we have experienced so early in the year has historically been indicative of further growth moving into the latter periods, and we are expecting 2021 to follow suit in this regard. This growth is driven by the evolution of our digital health platform. We are not simply distributing savings at point of prescribed. One of OptimizeRx's big differentiators is its full suite of capabilities that goes beyond financing communications, allowing for multiple touch points between stakeholder classes through the physician's workflow, both inside and outside the care setting. All of our solutions are deeply connected into major EHR platforms, so doctors can deliver better, well-informed patient care. As you saw from our recent announcement, we've now expanded our omnichannel platform reach to over 50% of oncologists in the U.S. through our latest health information technology partnerships. With oncology projected to be the fastest growing segment in the life sciences market, with over 12% in 2021, this expansion unlocks new ways for life sciences to engage specialists, such as oncologists in a more timely and impactful way, along the care journey. The effort to unlock these omnichannel avenues of engagement under our health information technology partnerships has been well-received by life sciences organizations and doctors alike. A great example of these efforts is the buildout of personalized and specialized resources, such as in the oncology space. Treatment decisions in oncology often involve multiple stakeholders and a series of evaluations and decision points. Having our technology integrated at multiple points of workflow enables us to engage with the entire team working to support the needs of the patient, to ensure the best possible outcome is achieved. In terms of value-add new revenue drivers, we've seen great response to and growing demand for real-world evidence solutions since the announcement in Q4 of 2020. The industry is seeing how transformative this enhancement is to the accurate delivery of therapeutic support and brand messages to clinicians, at critical points in the patient's care journey. What is great about the evolution of our technology stack is just how much effort we put into making the doctor's workflow easier, from reducing the number of clicks in which a physician needs to go to access treatment information, to providing one-click access to drug manufacturers via TelaRep, without ever having to leave their primary workflow system. On the technology front, we've added two centers of excellence in 2021, focusing on two areas critical to our ability to scale, both organically and with potential M&A going forward. One is a dedicated and centralized quality insurance unit for the enterprise. The second one is for the consolidation of our data and analytics and business intelligence unit, into a dedicated insights and analytics unit. The team is also very proud to be recognized for their work and innovation. We're thrilled to be have named on the Financial Times American Fast Growing Company Ranking for the second year in a row. It's always terrific to see our team's efforts and continue to drive to innovate being recognized. I wanted to call attention to this nomination and recognition of all the hard work the team has put into building a vibrant technology business. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to our CFO, Doug Baker, who will walk us through the financial details for 2021's first quarter. Doug?