HeartSciences Provides Business Update and Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Results
September 12 2024 - 4:15PM
Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences
(Nasdaq: HSCS; HSCSW) ("HeartSciences" or the "Company"),
an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical technology company
focused on transforming ECGs/EKGs to save lives through earlier
detection of heart disease, today reported financial results for
the first quarter fiscal 2025 ended July 31, 2024 and provided a
business update.
First Fiscal Quarter 2025 Highlights:
During the first quarter of fiscal year 2025
(“Q1 FY2025”), HeartSciences has seen material progress for both
its MyoVista wavECGTM device, MyoVista InsightsTM cloud-platform
and associated first cloud-based AI-ECG algorithm. A summary of the
main changes and business highlights during Q1 FY2025 include:
- HeartSciences is uniquely developing both cloud and
device-based AI-ECG solutions, driving innovation in heart disease
detection. This versatility will enable AI-ECG solutions to be
provided across a wide range of healthcare settings, from large
hospital systems to simple nurse-led mobile testing services.
- Cash and cash equivalents of $4.3 million and shareholder’s
equity of $5.9 million. Subsequent to the quarter end, the Company
further strengthened its balance sheet by extending its cash runway
with the closing of $1.9 million, net proceeds, in non-dilutive
financing through an 18-month loan note and the 12-month extension
of a $500,000 loan note to September 2025.
- The MyoVista Insights AI-ECG algorithm cloud-platform (the
“MyoVista Insights Platform”) is progressing well with the Phase 1
version on track to be completed by end of calendar year 2024.
Pre-validation work on the first cloud-based algorithm, which will
be a low ejection fraction (LVEF ≤ 40) algorithm licensed from
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (Mount Sinai) is
soon to be underway. Assuming this work is successful, FDA
validation studies, expected to be conducted using retrospective
data, would follow.
- Together, the MyoVista Insights Platform and low ejection
fraction algorithm would form the software-based medical device for
regulatory purposes. FDA submission is targeted for the second half
of calendar year 2025.
- FDA 510(k) submission for the MyoVista® wavECG™ device remains
on track for the first calendar quarter of 2025. The hardware and
software issues are now believed to be resolved and work on the
updated age-adjusted algorithm is nearing completion. Thereafter, a
final FDA pre-submission meeting will take place to finalize the
validation study reporting processes associated with the category
outputs of the MyoVista® wavECG™. Patient recruitment and core-lab
work for the MyoVista validation study has already been completed.
Subject to and following a satisfactory pre-submission meeting,
final FDA algorithm validation is expected to take place
expeditiously.
Other notable highlights:
- Innovation Value Institute published analysis which
demonstrated MyoVista® wavECG™’s potential to radically improve the
cardiovascular pathway efficiency.
- HeartSciences selected to demonstrate MyoVista® wavECG™ at the
United Nations General Assembly Digital Health Symposium at the end
of September, as a technology to radically transform healthcare.
This follows continued expansion of our key opinion leader network
outside the U.S. and the reception of strong feedback from real
world clinical use of a small number of MyoVista® wavECG™ devices
which were placed in Europe.
- Continued material expansion of our IP with new patents
granted, including notice of allowance from the United States
Patent and Trademark Office for the detection of left ventricular
(LV) and/or right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, using deep learning
and a grant by the Indian Patent for our MyoVista Wavelet
Technology.
- Launch of our new website at
https://www.heartsciences.com.
Management Commentary
“We made material progress on both the MyoVista
Insights cloud-platform, its first related algorithm, and the
MyoVista® wavECG™ device in recent months. We have also resolved
some challenges and continue to focus on ensuring a robust
financial position to capitalize on our opportunity to be a leader
in what is set to become a $25 billion per year market. We are
laying the long-term foundations to solve the diagnostic gap for
the early detection of heart disease, which represents one of the
most significant benefits for healthcare worldwide,” said Andrew
Simpson, CEO of HeartSciences.
“Our team remains focused on getting through
regulatory submission for the MyoVista® wavECG™ as quickly as
practical, and we continue to work methodically and diligently to
bring a successful conclusion to many years and several tens of
millions of dollars of investment in R&D, clinical studies and
regulatory work.”
“Feedback on our MyoVista Insights platform has
been positive and work to bring forward the first of the Mount
Sinai licensed algorithms is well underway. As a software based
medical device many of the most time-consuming development and
regulatory requirements associated with a hardware-based device are
avoided.”
“We believe HeartSciences is uniquely positioned
to bring forward both cloud-based and device-based AI-ECG solutions
for the resting ECG, which is expected to provide significant
competitive advantage. Engagement with key opinion leaders is more
active, which bodes well for commercialization,” concluded Mr.
Simpson.
First Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial
Results
There were no revenues during Q1 FY2025. As of
July 31, 2024, cash and cash equivalents were approximately $4.3
million and shareholders’ equity was approximately $5.9 million.
Subsequent to the quarter end, the Company further strengthened its
balance sheet by extending its cash runway through the closing of
$1.9 million, net proceeds, in non-dilutive financing through an
18-month loan note and the 12-month extension of a $500,000 loan
note to September 2025. Complete financial results have been filed
in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission and is available on the
Company’s website.
About HeartSciences
Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a
HeartSciences is a medical technology company focused on applying
innovative AI-based technology to an ECG (also known as an EKG) to
expand and improve an ECG's clinical utility. Millions of ECGs are
performed every week and the Company's objective is to improve
healthcare by making it a far more valuable cardiac screening tool,
particularly in frontline or point-of-care clinical settings.
HeartSciences has one of the largest libraries of AI-ECG algorithms
and intends to provide these AI-ECG algorithms on a device agnostic
cloud-based solution as well as a low-cost ECG hardware platform.
Working with clinical experts, HeartSciences ensures that all
solutions are designed to work within existing clinical care
pathways, making it easier for clinicians to use AI-ECG technology
to improve their patient's care and lead to better outcomes.
HeartSciences' first product candidate for FDA clearance, the
MyoVista® wavECG™, or the MyoVista®, is a resting 12-lead ECG that
is also designed to provide diagnostic information related to
cardiac dysfunction which has traditionally only been available
through the use of cardiac imaging. The MyoVista® also provides
conventional ECG information in the same test.
For more information, please
visit: https://www.heartsciences.com.
X: @HeartSciences.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made
under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are relating to the Company's
future financial and operating performance. All statements, other
than statements of historical facts, included herein are
"forward-looking statements" including, among other things,
statements about HeartSciences' beliefs and expectations. These
statements are based on current expectations, assumptions and
uncertainties involving judgments about, among other things, future
economic, competitive and market conditions and future business
decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict
accurately and many of which are beyond the Company's control. The
expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements involve
significant assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these
expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date of this press release. Potential risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks discussed in
HeartSciences' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
April 30, 2024, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") on July 29, 2024, HeartSciences’ Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2024,
filed with the SEC on September 12, 2024 and in HeartSciences'
other filings with the SEC at www.sec.gov. Other than as required
under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to
update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts:
HeartSciences Gene Gephart +1-682-244-2578 Ext.
2024 info@heartsciences.com
Investors Gilmartin Group
Vivian Cervantes investorrelations@heartsciences.com
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