Premier Health Announces Closing of Cloud Practice Inc. Acquisition
January 29 2019 - 9:34AM
InvestorsHub NewsWire
- Cloud Practice Inc., a medical software
application company
with products including: Juno
EMR, a cloud-based EMR solution; ClinicAid, a medical
billing software; and MyHealthAccess, an online patient
portal
- The Juno EMR system is currently used by 287 clinics, over
3,000 licensed practitioners, 1,500 staff and 2,870,000 registered
patients
- Cloud Practice services over
60 Cannabis Clinics with over 120,000
active patients
- ClinicAid processes upwards of $30,000,000 in
payments to over 3000 health providers on a monthly
basis
VANCOUVER, BC -- January 29, 2019 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire --
Premier Health Group Inc. (PHGI.CN)
(PHGRF)
(Frankfurt: 6PH) (the "Company" or "Premier Health"), a Company
focused on developing innovative approaches that combine human
skill based expertise with emerging technologies for the healthcare
industry, is pleased to announce, further to its news release
dated January 10, 2019, the Company has acquired all of the
outstanding securities of Cloud Practice Inc. ("Cloud
Practice").
Cloud Practice's Founders, including CEO Jordan Visco, and
entire support team, consisting of several software developers and
sales staff, will join and work alongside the Premier Health team
to offer tools and resources providing for better efficiency on a
day-to-day basis for both physicians and customers. The combined
Premier and Cloud Practice ecosystem consists of over 3,000,000
patients.
"We are very excited to have completed this acquisition and to
have the experienced team at Cloud Practice join the team at
Premier Health. With this acquisition, we now have a medical
software company with national reach. Thus, enabling us to build on
our patient-centric technology platform that will integrate
telemedicine, online booking and other premium services with our
electronic medical records (EMR) system," said Dr. Essam
Hamza, CEO of Premier.
Jordan Visco, CEO of Cloud Practice, stated: "We are thrilled to
be joining a progressive group such as Premier Health. We are
focused on delivering top quality service
to Canada's healthcare industry and we are confident that
with Cloud Practice's offerings combined with the Premier Health
teams' expertise and long-term vision, we can achieve considerable
success."
In consideration for the acquisition of all of the outstanding
Cloud Practice securities, Premier will pay to the Cloud Practice
shareholders total consideration of up to $5 million, $2
million dollars in cash to be paid out as follows:
(i) $500,000 paid in cash on signing of the binding LOI
as a refundable deposit, (ii) $500,000 in cash payable on
closing, (iii) $500,000 in cash payable 90 days after
closing, (iv) $500,000 in cash payable within six months
of the LOI subject to the satisfaction of certain milestones
related to the integration of the Juno EMR, and $3
million payable in common shares of Premier at a deemed price
of $0.76 per share.
All shares issued in the transaction are subject to a restricted
period of four months and one day. There were no finder's fees paid
in connection with the Transaction.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Essam Hamza, MD
Chief Executive Officer
About Premier Health
Premier Health is a Canadian company that is strategically
poised to take advantage of business opportunities in the global
health care industry. We are developing innovative health care
approaches that combine human skill based expertise with emerging
technologies, with the goal of setting the gold standard for
services in locations of interest worldwide. Premier Health's
subsidiary, HealthVue is focused on developing proprietary
technology to deliver quality healthcare through the combination of
connected primary care clinics with telemedicine and artificial
intelligence (AI). We currently have an ecosystem of over 100,000
active patients and have plans to rapidly increase that number both
domestically and internationally. The HealthVue team has a strong
track record of successfully creating value in healthcare and
technology enterprises. The Management team has deep clinical,
financial and operational expertise and a passion for improving
healthcare for all patients.
About Cloud Practice
Cloud Practice is a cloud-based software solutions company
focused on streamlining medical practice throughout Canada.
They offer three products including Juno EMR, ClinicAid and
MyHealthAccess. Juno EMR, a modified branch of an open-source
electronic medical records (EMR) software which was originally
released by McMaster University, is hosted in the cloud and
can be accessed anywhere, anytime. ClinicAid
is Canada's easiest medical billing software.
MyHealthAccess is an online patient portal which puts patients back
in control of their health care through connecting with their
clinics and booking appointments online.
Cautionary Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are
based on Premier Health's expectations, estimates and projections
regarding its business and the economic environment in which it
operates, including with respect to its business plans, completion
of its acquisition of Cloud Practice, and the timing thereof, the
expected benefits to the Company following the integration of Cloud
Practice's software and the expected implementation of new
applications, including the timing thereof, the expect growth to
Cloud Practice's business and the expected synergies resulting from
the Company's acquisition of Cloud Practice. Although Premier
Health believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking
statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are
not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and
uncertainties that are difficult to control or predict. Therefore,
actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those
expressed in these forward-looking statements and readers should
not place undue reliance on such statements. These forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and
Premier Health undertakes no obligation to update them publicly to
reflect new information or the occurrence of future events or
circumstances, unless otherwise required to do so by law.
The Canadian Securities Exchange does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
Premier Health Group Inc.
http://www.mypremierhealth.com
Email: investors@mypremierhealth.com
+1-604-617-7221
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