ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Stereotaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: STXS) announced today following its regularly scheduled board meeting that it reaffirmed the Company’s plans for both the launch of the Epoch platform and expansion of the Odyssey platform into standard labs.
“At our meeting last week, the Board reviewed and endorsed the commercial strategies put forth for the launch of Epoch, as well as for the expansion of Odyssey’s market penetration into standard labs,” said Fred A. Middleton, Chairman of the Board of Directors. “We are encouraged by the positive early physician feedback to Epoch’s productivity enhancements, and remain optimistic about the commercial potential for the Epoch magnetic surgery platform for robotic assisted surgeries in the cardiology suite. We are also encouraged by the positive trends in recurring revenue as reflected in our financial statements.”
Mr. Middleton added, “The Board has established a Strategy Committee to evaluate various capital raising strategies to fund the Company’s planned growth initiatives over the next 18 months, and we are focused on non-equity sources of funding as our first choice for raising capital since we believe our common stock is significantly undervalued in the public market.”
The Company also completed last week its previously announced plans for operating expense reductions amounting to approximately 15 to 20% of annual operating expenses.
About Stereotaxis www.stereotaxis.com www.odysseyexperience.com
Stereotaxis designs, manufactures and markets an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital’s interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of coronary artery disease and arrhythmias. The Niobe® Remote Magnetic Navigation System is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing image guided delivery of catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites. This is achieved using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation, shorter procedure time and reduced x-ray exposure.
Stereotaxis’ Odyssey portfolio of products provides an innovative enterprise solution for integrating, recording and networking interventional lab information within hospitals and around the world. Odyssey Vision integrates data for magnetic and standard interventional labs, enhancing the physician workflow through a consolidated display of multiple systems and eliminating the challenge of interacting simultaneously with many separate diagnostic systems. Odyssey Enterprise Cinema then captures a complete record of synchronized procedure data that can be viewed live or from a comprehensive archive of cases performed. Odyssey then enables hospitals to efficiently share live and recorded clinical data anywhere around the world to maximize referrals and promote collaboration.
The core components of the Stereotaxis systems have received regulatory clearance in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere. For more information, please visit www.stereotaxis.com and www.odysseyexperience.com.
This press release includes statements that may constitute “forward-looking” statements, usually containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace, the effect of global economic conditions on the ability and willingness of customers to purchase our systems and the timing of such purchases, competitive factors, changes resulting from the recently enacted healthcare reform in the U.S., including changes in government reimbursement procedures, dependence upon third-party vendors, timing of regulatory approvals, and other risks discussed in the Company’s periodic and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release. There can be no assurance that the Company will recognize revenue related to its purchase orders and other commitments in any particular period or at all because some of these purchase orders and other commitments are subject to contingencies that are outside of the Company’s control. In addition, these orders and commitments may be revised, modified, delayed or canceled, either by their express terms, as a result of negotiations, or by overall project changes or delays.
SOURCE Stereotaxis, Inc.
