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HealthStream Agreements with Laerdal Medical
Expected to Conclude on December 31, 2018
Nashville, Tenn. (June 26, 2017) HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of workforce, patient experience, and provider solutions
for the healthcare industry, today announced Laerdal Medical A/S, a Norwegian company ( Laerdal ), has ended renewal negotiations for the agreements with HealthStream regarding the HeartCode and Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI)
Terms of Agreements through December 31, 2018
Laerdal provided notice that, upon the December 31, 2018 expiration of its existing agreements with HealthStream regarding the HeartCode and Resuscitation
Quality Improvement (RQI) products, Laerdal does not intend to continue these existing agreements or enter into new agreements with HealthStream in relation to such products.
HealthStream s Joint Marketing and Licensing Agreements with Laerdal for HeartCode and for RQI, respectively, remain unaltered and continue in effect
through December 31, 2018. Up to that expiration date, HealthStream retains the right to offer HeartCode and RQI licenses that extend, and correspondingly generate revenue, through December 31, 2020. HealthStream retains exclusivity of RQI
sales to its existing customer network through the agreement expiration date of December 31, 2018 and is prohibited from selling substantially similar products to HeartCode and RQI during that time.
HealthStream expects to continue selling HeartCode and RQI for the next 18 months and will provide uninterrupted support and excellent service to all of its
HeartCode and RQI customers for the duration of their current and renewed contracts through December 31, 2020.
Although sales of the HeartCode and RQI products have been strong over the past several years, margins on such products are lower than HealthStream s
average margin. During the twelve months ended March 31, 2017, HeartCode generated approximately $37.8 million of revenue and RQI generated approximately $1.9 million of revenue.
The announcement today of the expected conclusion of HealthStream s agreements with Laerdal does not affect HealthStream s previously stated
financial guidance for 2017.
Bringing Choice to Customers in January 2019
Robert A. Frist, Jr., chief executive officer, HealthStream, said, We believe disruptive resuscitation technologies and innovation should drive quality
up and cost down for our healthcare customers. We are in active negotiations to bring several disruptors that would deliver lower-cost, guideline-compliant resuscitation programs to our customers in January 2019.
As we serve thousands of hospitals and health systems on a daily basis, HealthStream s role includes bringing choice and competition to the
marketplace on their behalf. We have, for example, already successfully brought a wide selection of training options to customers in other solution areas, including two of the top three leading brands in clinical skills development. We are extending
this approach to resuscitation solutions.
Awards Program for Quality, Innovation, & Cost Containment in Resuscitation Launched
To support our long-term commitment to hospitals and providing quality, innovative resuscitation programs, HealthStream is launching an Awards Program for
quality, innovation, and cost containment in resuscitation. The awards will be given to hospitals that demonstrate outstanding, cost-efficient innovation in resuscitation programs. The first award recipient will be recognized in the third quarter of
2017. To learn more about the Award Program, go to: http://www.healthstream.com/community/awards-of-excellence-2017.
We are committed to making the next 10 years a period of great improvement in the quality of resuscitation, said CEO Frist. We believe the
forces of competition, choice, and disruptive technologies will drive that movement so that quality improvement can become more affordable.
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is
dedicated to improving patient outcomes through the development of healthcare organizations greatest asset: their people. Our unified suite of solutions is contracted by, collectively, approximately 4.6 million healthcare employees in the
U.S. for workforce development, training & learning management, talent management, credentialing, privileging, provider enrollment, performance assessment, and managing simulation-based education programs. Our research solutions provide
valuable insight to healthcare providers to meet HCAHPS requirements, improve the patient experience, engage their workforce, and enhance physician alignment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream has additional offices in Brentwood,
Tennessee; Jericho, New York; Boulder; Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; and San Diego, California. For more information, visit http://www.healthstream.com or call
This press release includes certain forward-looking statements (statements other than solely with respect to historical
fact), including statements regarding expectations for the financial performance for 2017, statements in relation to anticipated developments associated with the expiration of HealthStream s existing agreements with Laerdal regarding the
HeartCode and RQI products, and statements regarding the anticipated introduction of new partners and products following the expiration of these agreements with Laerdal, that involve risks and uncertainties regarding HealthStream. These statements
are based upon management s beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and data currently available to management. This information has been, or in the future may be, included in reliance on the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company cautions that forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially
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