REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biotricity Inc. (OTCQB: BTCY), a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, today announced financial results for its first quarter ending June 30, 2019. The company’s financial results reflect a strong growth trajectory and positive commercialization progress.
FIRST QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS
Top line revenues for the three months of the first quarter which ended June 30, 2019 were $327,000, almost double the preceding quarter, corresponding to an 83.6% increase in revenues.
Net loss per share for the three months, which ended June 30, 2019, was 6.0 cents per share, a 21.1% decrease from 7.6 cents for this quarter.
COMMENTARY ON PERFORMANCE AND OUTLOOK
“Biotricity got off to a great start in fiscal Q1,” said Mr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, Biotricity Founder and CEO. “Gross revenues for the three months which ended June 30, 2019, continued to reflect strong quarter over quarter growth and a growth trajectory that saw revenues for the latest quarter correspond to 82.1% of gross revenues for the entire 12 previous months of the fiscal year which ended March 31, 2019. The number of clinicians performing cardiac patient studies using our state-of-the-art remote patient monitoring platform continues to reflect Biotricity’s growing customer affinity and reach.”
Biotricity’s last fiscal year ended on March 31, 2018. After achieving FDA clearance, the Company’s first remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution, Bioflux, experienced a high adoption rate during its fiscal 2018 limited market release to anchor clinics. In the first three months of fiscal year 2019, the Company has transitioned to full US release, ramping up its small sales force and expanding its sales footprint to 11 key states, with plans to expand further. By design, management established its horizontal technology platform to align with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) stated plan to cut over $57 billion in costs from US public healthcare spending, by moving unnecessary inpatient care to outpatient care, and by focusing on RPM and preemptive diagnostics. This shift has the potential to improve patient care and save additional lives while also saving significant healthcare costs.
Biotricity was recently recognized for its expertise in bringing remote patient monitoring technologies to the US healthcare market, and its perspective on the underlying insurance reimbursement regimes that exist. On August 20, 2019, Mr. Al-Siddiq gave a live interview on Yahoo Finance’s On the Move show. He discussed American healthcare coverage and how insurance plans, whether public or private, impact growing, start-up medical device companies. Mr. Al-Siddiq also discussed how advances in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring (RPM), and the demands of the patient-consumer, are creating a seismic shift in healthcare delivery, most noticeably in the shift to outpatient care. The interview can be viewed here: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/breaking-down-debate-medicare-160143116.html
“We are a technology company with a pipeline of complementary RPM and pre-emptive diagnostic technologies that will allow us to leapfrog and build on our existing platform,” said Mr. Al-Siddiq. “We continue to innovate. Biotricity is building the team and resources to execute its growth plans and realize its aspirations of being a leader in the remote patient monitoring space, developing differentiated products and innovative services that will be in high demand. To do this we will expand our sales force and continue to innovate, in order to support our US expansion. In parallel, we will carefully and methodically assess other international jurisdictions that entail high potential for growth.”
Management's complete business outlook, and its discussion and analysis of the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, can be found in the Quarterly Report published on August 15, 2019, which is available on EDGAR and on Biotricity’s website here: https://www.biotricity.com/investor-relations-2/financial-information/
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About Biotricity Inc.
Biotricity is a modern medical technology company focused on delivering innovative, remote biometric monitoring solutions to the medical and consumer markets, including diagnostic and post-diagnostic solutions for chronic conditions and lifestyle improvement. Biotricity’s R&D continues to focus on the preventative healthcare market, with a vision of putting health management into the hands of the individual. The company aims to support the self-management of critical and chronic conditions with the use of innovative solutions to ease the growing burden on the healthcare system. To learn more, visit www.biotricity.com.
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