−Removed: is a digital health technology company enabling care-focused engagement between life sciences organizations, healthcare providers, and
−Removed: patients at critical junctures throughout the patient care journey.
+Added: OptimizeRx is a leading healthcare
+Added: technology company that is redefining how life sciences brands connect with patients and healthcare providers.
+Added: OptimizeRx is a
+Added: Nevada corporation and was founded in 2006 in Rochester, Michigan as a healthcare technology company delivering various types of
+Added: messages, including coupons and co-pays directly to physicians and pharmacists though electronic health record (EHR) systems and
+Added: ePrescribing (eRx) platforms.
+Added: Over time, the demand for different types of communication and marketing solutions among life sciences
+Added: organizations, healthcare professionals (HCPs), and patients led us to expand upon our initial solution to increase the variety of
+Added: health-related information we deliver, as well as the platforms, technology, and audiences through, and to which we deliver.
+Added: By combining artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools with our original
+Added: financial messaging solution, we progressively enhanced our original financial messaging solution.
+Added: Our current AI-enabled Dynamic Audience
+Added: Activation Platform (DAAP) not only identifies precise HCP audiences, but also estimates which HCPs will see brand eligible patients,
+Added: and when such brand eligible patients will be seen.
+Added: After acquiring
+Added: Healthy Offers, Inc.
+Added: (d/b/a “Medicx” or “Medicx Health”) in 2023, we expanded our capabilities to include direct-to-consumer
+Added: (DTC) marketing using our patent-protected Micro-Neighborhood Targeting (MNT) solution.
+Added: MNT uses de-identified claims data to target not
+Added: individual patients, but geographies in which eligible patients live, to better target audiences for brand manufacturers - a
+Added: privacy-centric approach to audience creation.
+Added: With the integration of DTC marketing, our life sciences brand customers can now access
+Added: across our omnichannel network to reach both HCP and patient audiences.
+Added: Today, we offer diverse tech-enabled marketing solutions using
+Added: sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to find the best audience in the correct channels at the right time.
+Added: Customers are able to execute traditional marketing
+Added: campaigns on our proprietary digital point-of-care network, as well as dynamic DTC marketing campaigns that optimize audiences in real
+Added: time to increase the value of treatment information for HCPs and patients.
Connecting over two million U.S.
healthcare providers and millions
−Removed: of their patients through an intelligent omni-channel technology platform embedded within a proprietary point-of-care network, as well
−Removed: as mass digital communications channels, OptimizeRx helps life sciences organizations engage and support their customers.
−Removed: are a Nevada corporation organized in September 2008.
−Removed: We conduct our operations through our wholly-owned subsidiaries, Healthy Offers,
−Removed: (d/b/a Medicx Health or “Medicx Health”), a Nevada corporation, CareSpeak Communications, Inc., a New Jersey corporation,
−Removed: CareSpeak Communications, d.o.o., a controlled foreign corporation incorporated in Croatia, and Cyberdiet, a controlled foreign corporation
−Removed: incorporated in Israel.
−Removed: employ a “land and expand” strategy focused on growing our existing client base and generating greater and more consistent
−Removed: revenues, in part through the continued shift in our business model toward enterprise level engagements, while also broadening our platform
−Removed: with innovative proprietary solutions such as our Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Dynamic Audience and Activation Platform (“DAAP”),
−Removed: expanding on previous iterations of the RWD.AI technology.
−Removed: which uses sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to find the best audiences
−Removed: in the correct channels at the right time.
−Removed: sciences organizations face a challenging commercial landscape.
−Removed: In recent years, they have met increased competition, shrinking market
−Removed: sizes, and inconsistent access to patients and healthcare professionals - their most important customers.
−Removed: 81% of new drug approvals are
−Removed: specialty medications, leading to more complex diagnosis criteria, increased utilization management by healthcare payors, and lengthy
−Removed: wait times for patients to begin treatment after care decisions are made.
−Removed: a result, life sciences organizations have increasingly turned to technology solutions to support their commercial strategies.
−Removed: on digital solutions to facilitate greater access to their end markets accounts for one-third of their collective commercial spend in
−Removed: the United States of approximately $30 billion.
−Removed: believe significant opportunity exists to address the unmet needs of life sciences organizations as they relate to digital solutions,
−Removed: including omnichannel access to health care professionals, for complex commercial challenges.
−Removed: Company Highlights
−Removed: revenue increased to $71.5 million in 2023, a 15% increase over 2022.
−Removed: profit increased to $ 42.9
−Removed: million in 2023 from $ 39.0 million
−Removed: in 2022 with corresponding gross margins of 60.0% and
−Removed: 62.4% , respectively.
−Removed: increased our DAAP footprint.
−Removed: With 2023 having 24 DAAP deals compared to only six deals in
−Removed: Medicx Health, a leading healthcare consumer-focused omnichannel marketing and analytics
−Removed: company that significantly expands our footprint with consumers and patients.
−Removed: operations on core solutions to streamline efficiencies and better position the Company to
−Removed: capitalize on synergies with Medicx Health, focusing on Audience Development, Audience Activation
−Removed: and Media Execution, and Financial Messaging.
−Removed: Company’s original solution was Financial Messaging - the delivery of treatment-specific financial support information for patients distributed
−Removed: directly to healthcare prescribers through a combination of our proprietary technology and a network of electronic health record (EHR)
−Removed: and electronic prescribing (ERx) platforms.
−Removed: Over time, the demand for different types of communication and marketing solutions among
−Removed: life sciences organizations, healthcare providers, and patients led us to expand upon our initial solution to increase the variety of
−Removed: health-related information we deliver, as well as the platforms, technology, and audiences through and to which we deliver.
−Removed: offer diverse tech-enabled marketing solutions through our AI-generated DAAP, which enables customers to execute traditional marketing
−Removed: campaigns on our proprietary digital point-of-care network, as well as dynamic marketing campaigns that optimize audiences in real time
−Removed: to increase the value of treatment information for healthcare professionals and patients in response to clinical care events.
−Removed: Our principal
−Removed: solutions, available individually or through our DAAP, can be summarized as follows:
−Removed: ● AI-generated
−Removed: dynamic audience creation using predictive analytics via machine learning methods applied
−Removed: to real-world data (RWD) to assist healthcare providers (HCPs) in identifying patients who
−Removed: may be qualified for specific therapies, raise awareness of patient access pathways, and
−Removed: identify early indicators of non-adherence among patient populations.
−Removed: This solution has a
−Removed: “patient-first” focus, helping manufacturers identify which HCPs to engage by
−Removed: first identifying if they currently care for qualified patients, based on where they are
−Removed: in their care journey and disease state.
−Removed: These AI models provide our clients with the most
−Removed: relevant targets and fuel the deployment of programs across our other solutions.
−Removed: of consumer audiences using our privacy-safe and HIPAA-compliant Micro-Neighborhood Targeting®
−Removed: technology available for traditional media execution through major programmatic Demand-Side
−Removed: Platforms (DSPs)
−Removed: Activation and Media Execution
−Removed: media execution delivering awareness (brand, therapeutic support, affordability, HUB, limited
−Removed: distribution, and patient support program) messaging via our HCP omnichannel network including
−Removed: digital point-of-care banners within clinical workflow applications, such as EHR systems
−Removed: and ERx platforms, programmatic social media, and programmatic display.
−Removed: audience media execution delivering consumer awareness via our consumer omnichannel network
−Removed: including programmatic display, programmatic connected television (CTV)/over-the-top (OTT),
−Removed: programmatic social media, addressable television (ATV), digital out-of-home (OOH), programmatic
−Removed: audio (podcasts, apps, radio), and email/direct mail.
−Removed: Messaging solution providing prescribers visibility to branded copay offers directly within
−Removed: their EHR systems and/or ERx platforms.
−Removed: It allows prescribers to print, digitally send directly
−Removed: to patients via SMS, and/or digitally send copay offer details electronically to the dispensing
−Removed: Our solution addresses the fact that many healthcare systems and prescribers are
−Removed: looking for an easier, more effective way to increase affordable access to their prescribed
−Removed: branded medications.
−Removed: and Marketing
−Removed: employ a sales team of over 20 people, marketing our solutions to new and existing clients.
−Removed: Our sales team drives awareness of the increased
−Removed: value of our technology stack as an AI tech-enabled marketing platform.
−Removed: Accordingly, our sales efforts are not directed merely at selling
−Removed: individual solutions, but more broadly towards selling enterprise platform engagements with access to our full set of solutions.
−Removed: sales and marketing teams work closely together to cultivate customer relationships.
−Removed: We use a number of methods to market and promote
−Removed: our solutions, including digital advertising, industry events, trade shows, conferences, media coverage, social media and email.
−Removed: we enhanced our RWD.AI platform solution to become the premier platform to devise and execute Next-Best-Action marketing strategies within
−Removed: healthcare professional audiences and branded the platform as DAAP.
−Removed: support our growth and provide maximum security, scalability, and flexibility, all of our systems, including from acquisitions, are now
−Removed: hosted and integrated in the cloud.
−Removed: Our technology development and systems management core team is in the U.S.
−Removed: and in Croatia, with contractors
−Removed: in India and Ukraine to provide bench depth, rich skills experience, and business economies.
−Removed: The teams are organized into Centers of
−Removed: Excellence focused on Product Domains, Quality Assurance, Information Security, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Platform
−Removed: Services, and Internal Systems Support.
−Removed: Systems enhancements in 2023 included upgrades and documentation of processes and procedures
−Removed: and security implementation for ongoing cybersecurity, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and customer security assessments, and in achieving enterprise
−Removed: HITRUST recertification.
−Removed: solutions face competition from numerous other companies, both in attracting users and in generating revenue from advertisers and sponsors.
−Removed: We compete for users with online services and websites that provide savings on medications and healthcare products.
−Removed: Our messaging offerings
−Removed: compete for pharmaceutical budgets with a variety of other forms of advertising and promotion.
−Removed: solutions compete broadly in the highly competitive pharmaceutical and life sciences digital marketing industry that is dominated by
−Removed: large well-known companies with established names, solid market niches, and wide arrays of product offerings and marketing networks.
−Removed: Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, product development, marketing and other resources than we do.
−Removed: These companies
−Removed: may be better known than we are and have more customers or users than we do.
−Removed: As a result, many of these companies may respond more quickly
−Removed: to new or emerging technologies and standards and changes in customer requirements.
−Removed: companies may be able to invest more resources in research and development, strategic acquisitions, and sales and marketing.
−Removed: compete on the basis of several factors, including size of our network, quality of our service, our ability to target specific customer
−Removed: needs, and to a lesser extent, price.
−Removed: For more information on risks relating to our competition, see Item 1A.
+Added: of their patients through an intelligent technology platform embedded within a proprietary omnichannel network, OptimizeRx helps life
+Added: sciences organizations engage and support their customers.
+Added: Business Strategy
+Added: OptimizeRx is at a pivotal moment in its almost 20-year
+Added: Over the past few months, we have completed an extensive review of our business processes, operations, growth plans, capital
+Added: allocation, strategies and opportunities - with the ultimate goal of assessing how we can best create value for our shareholders.
+Added: On March 10, 2025, after a rigorous search and selection
+Added: process for a new Chief Executive Officer that was conducted by our independent directors with the assistance of a leading executive search
+Added: firm, we named Stephen L.
+Added: Silvestro as our Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Silvestro leads the next phase of the
+Added: Company’s growth and transformation, many of our business priorities will be the same, such as continuing to focus on customer
+Added: centricity and delight, operational excellence, disciplined execution, developing stronger relationships with our valued business
+Added: partners, and expanding our unique value proposition with our top-tier pharma customers.
+Added: However, going forward, a core aspect of
+Added: our new value creation strategy will be to drive towards being recognized as a “Rule of 40” company within the next
+Added: several years such that our combined annual revenue growth rate and EBITDA margin are 40% or higher.
+Added: Like other companies aspiring
+Added: to be a “Rule of 40” company, we understand the need to effectively balance growth with profitability.
+Added: towards this ambitious financial goal, we plan to develop a re-occurring revenue component to our business as we look to convert our
+Added: DAAP customers to a subscription-based model for the data component of our offerings.
+Added: We believe this will improve our EBITDA
+Added: margins over time while substantially enhancing the overall predictability of our revenue streams.
+Added: We also believe this will enhance
+Added: our ability to scale our business and more thoughtfully plan for profitable growth.
+Added: While we believe we are executing the right strategy,
+Added: our Board of Directors and management team understand the need to regularly review our strategy, assess it against a variety of opportunities
+Added: that may create greater value, and ensure that the strategy we are executing is fully aligned with the best interests of our shareholders.
+Added: Industry Background
+Added: Life sciences organizations face a challenging
+Added: commercial landscape.
+Added: The life sciences industry is characterized by rapidly advancing science and technologies, intense competition,
+Added: and a strong emphasis on differentiated products.
+Added: As a result, life sciences organizations have
+Added: increasingly turned to technology solutions to support their commercial strategies.
+Added: According to industry sources, total pharmaceutical
+Added: industry commercial spend in the United States is $30 billion of which approximately $10 billion is attributable to commercial digital
+Added: We believe significant opportunity exists to address
+Added: the unmet needs of life sciences organizations as they relate to digital solutions, including omnichannel access to HCPs, for our customers’
+Added: biggest commercial challenges.
+Added: These complex challenges include brand visibility to HCPs which is impacted by a competitive drug environment
+Added: with sales representatives losing time in front of prescribers, augmented by the amount of time the HCPs have to spend in front of computers
+Added: and in the EHR.
+Added: Further, EHRs do not often communicate with one another, creating interoperability issues resulting in HCPs not having
+Added: all relevant patient information.
+Added: In addition, expensive specialty medications are becoming more common and involve more complex diagnosis
+Added: criteria - factors that contribute to substantial script abandonment by patients.
+Added: Our solutions are designed to address these and other
+Added: commercial challenges faced by our customers.
+Added: Principal Solutions
+Added: We offer clear, actionable solutions to the challenges
+Added: faced by our customers, and our combined HCP and DTC marketing strategies are designed to ensure our customers’ brands are positioned
+Added: at the right moment and with the right message, always prioritizing the end result:
+Added: successful brand engagement to reach both HCPs and
+Added: patients, ultimately resulting in improved patient care.
+Added: Our principal solutions can be summarized as follows:
+Added: Audience Development:
+Added: ● Dynamic Audience Activation Platform (DAAP) generates dynamic audiences
+Added: with predictive analytics via machine learning methods.
+Added: This identifies which potentially qualified patients and which HCPs to actively
+Added: engage based on the patient’s care journey and disease progression.
+Added: These dynamic audiences provide our manufacturing customers
+Added: with relevant and timely targets, generating a higher likelihood of impact.
+Added: ● Micro-Neighborhood Targeting (MNT) creates consumer audiences using
+Added: a privacy-first process.
+Added: MNT looks for all patients expressing brand eligibility signals (covering more than 90% of the U.S.
+Added: then scores over 35 million 9-digit zip codes based on the concentration of those signals to create a prioritized, yet de-identified audience.
+Added: Geographies are automatically refreshed and prioritized regularly for maximum marketing relevance and precision.
+Added: Our clients may then
+Added: activate these audiences through programmatic Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs).
+Added: Audience Profiling:
+Added: ● Our audience profiling solution, Profiler, provides insights into our customers’
+Added: target consumers, identifying the most cost effective and engaging channels, partners, and strategies for our customers.
+Added: Audience profiling
+Added: enables clients to maximize marketing dollars, focusing on channels their targets are most likely to be consuming, and more specifically
+Added: focusing on the media partners within those channels.
+Added: This is critical to upfront planning as well as periodic analysis to ensure efficient
+Added: use of marketing budgets.
+Added: Audience Activation and Media Execution
+Added: ● Our primary media offering is banner messaging delivered to HCPs.
+Added: Banner messages include brand messaging,
+Added: therapeutic support messaging, affordability messaging, HUB awareness, limited distribution drug information, and patient support program
+Added: We can deliver these in a number of ways via our HCP omnichannel network (EHR systems and eRx platforms), programmatic social
+Added: media, and programmatic display.
+Added: ● With the acquisition of Medicx, our omnichannel solutions expanded further to offering media execution
+Added: solutions to consumer audiences.
+Added: To reach consumer audiences - brand eligible patients - we deliver messages via our consumer omnichannel
+Added: network including through programmatic display, programmatic connected television (CTV)/over-the-top (OTT), programmatic social media,
+Added: addressable television (ATV), digital out-of-home (OOH), programmatic audio (podcasts, apps, radio), and email/direct mail.
+Added: Pharmacy Alerts
+Added: ● Pharmacy Alerts improves the existing workflow for prescribing HCPs by informing
+Added: them in real time about which pharmacies are able to fill a patient’s prescription.
+Added: Currently, HCPs typically see a list of pharmacies
+Added: near their patients, sorted by proximity, without regard to whether each pharmacy carries the medication or is permitted to fill it (in
+Added: case of a limited distribution drug).
+Added: Pharmacy Alerts flags pharmacies that have the medication in stock and are able to fill the prescriptions,
+Added: resulting in less frustration and added work for prescribing physicians, pharmacies and patients and less waiting time to get essential
+Added: medications to the patients.
+Added: Financial Messaging
+Added: ● Financial Messaging provides prescribers visibility to branded copay offers for patients directly within
+Added: their EHR systems and eRx platforms.
+Added: It allows prescribers to print or digitally send copay offer details to the dispensing pharmacy.
+Added: Our solution addresses the fact that many healthcare systems and prescribers are looking for an easier, more effective way to increase
+Added: affordable access to their prescribed branded medications.
+Added: Sales and Marketing
+Added: The go-to-market
+Added: strategy for the business aligns sales and marketing efforts while keeping customer engagement at the core.
+Added: Engaging customers early,
+Added: providing value throughout their journey, and nurturing long-term relationships drive sustainable growth and retention.
+Added: Our sales and
+Added: marketing teams include over 25 individuals focused on awareness, adoption and expansion of data and technology solutions designed to
+Added: address the digital engagement needs of life sciences brands and their agency partners.
+Added: patent pending patient-centric omnichannel engagement platform combines artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence (HI), to determine
+Added: the optimal time to engage patients and physicians.
+Added: We synchronize HCP and DTC marketing across the programmatic and point-of-care channels
+Added: to increase brand conversions, streamline therapy starts, and build stronger brand relationships.
+Added: Our sales and marketing teams
+Added: work closely together to cultivate customer relationships.
+Added: We use a number of methods to market and promote our solutions, including digital
+Added: advertising, industry events, trade shows, conferences, media coverage, social media, and email.
+Added: Our proprietary technology platform enables us
+Added: to curate privacy safe DTC audiences, dynamic HCP and DTC audiences, and effectively manage digital media campaigns for our advertiser
+Added: clients (agencies, and manufacturer/brands) across our channel partner network.
+Added: Our platform consists of a unified data intelligence technology
+Added: stack, multiple cloud-based data warehouses, and in-house applications and application programming interface layers.
+Added: Collectively, this
+Added: platform enables us with a collaborative environment for data engineering, data science, and machine learning, an efficient method to
+Added: curate privacy safe DTC audiences, and a scalable means to manage both point-of-care media campaigns and the supply-side inventory request
+Added: For the management of point-of-care media campaigns, the platform integrates advanced features of a Supply-Side Platform (SSP),
+Added: allowing us to provide seamless access to an expansive range of point-of-care inventory via our strategic partnerships.
+Added: As an SSP, our
+Added: platform enables us to manage and optimize our point-of-care network’s ad inventory, maximizing their revenue.
+Added: On the demand side,
+Added: our platform empowers our account and program managers to efficiently manage our customers’ campaign(s).
+Added: Our technology is built
+Added: on a scalable and secure architecture that supports high-performance data processing, real-time decisioning, and integration with third-party
+Added: data providers.
+Added: To support our growth and provide maximum security,
+Added: scalability, and flexibility, all our systems, including from acquisitions, are now hosted and integrated in the cloud.
+Added: Our technology
+Added: development and systems management core team is in the U.S.
+Added: and in Croatia, with contractors in India and Ukraine to provide bench depth,
+Added: rich skills experience, and business economies.
+Added: The teams are organized into Centers of Excellence focused on Product Domains, Quality
+Added: Assurance, Information Security, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Platform Services, and Internal Systems Support.
+Added: System enhancements
+Added: in 2024 included system and framework upgrades, documentation of processes and procedures, security implementation for ongoing cybersecurity,
+Added: Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and customer security assessments, and in achieving both System and Organization
+Added: Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 and Type 2 certifications.
+Added: The competitive
+Added: landscape within life sciences digital marketing is constantly evolving.
+Added: Our solutions face competition from numerous other companies.
+Added: We compete broadly in the dynamic and ever-evolving
+Added: pharmaceutical and life sciences digital marketing industry with healthcare data suppliers, health-focused demand-side platforms, and
+Added: health-focused walled garden websites and web platforms, and advertising networks that aggregate traffic from multiple web sites or point-of-care
+Added: platforms such as telehealth, EHR, eRx, physician practice management, health information exchanges (HIE), and site-based platforms within
+Added: large health systems.
+Added: Our competitors include large well-known companies with established names, solid market niches, and wide arrays
+Added: of product offerings and marketing networks.
+Added: As innovators
+Added: in the industry, we have patented and patent-pending technologies that provide unique differentiation, including a patient-centric focus
+Added: on brand conversion, and value generation for our customers.
+Added: Our extensive point-of-care network provides our customers with unparalleled
+Added: reach to relevant prescribers.
+Added: We are uniquely able to use DAAP to produce targeted, privacy-safe audiences for both consumers and their
+Added: treating HCPs, allowing brand engagement to occur within the likely care window to find brand-eligible patients at the right time for
+Added: brand adoption.
+Added: DAAP leverages the investment in data and AI technologies, combined with human intelligence, in applying brand-specific
+Added: strategies to optimize program performance.
+Added: Our patented MNT technology provides a unique opportunity for pharmaceutical brands to market
+Added: to consumers while adhering to HIPAA and state level privacy requirements.
+Added: For more information on risks relating to our
+Added: competition, see Item 1A.
Risk Factors.
−Removed: Historically,
−Removed: we have created intellectual property or obtained intellectual property through commercial relationships and in connection with acquisitions.
−Removed: own patents important to our business, and we expect to continue to file patent applications to protect our research and development
−Removed: investments in new products.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, we held five patents and two pending patent applications, including foreign
−Removed: counterpart patents and foreign applications.
−Removed: For the United States, patents may last 20 years from the date of the patent’s filing,
−Removed: subject to term adjustments made by the patent office.
−Removed: addition, we own registered trademarks in the United States and other countries.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, OPTIMIZERx, OPTIMIZEMD,
−Removed: CareSpeak, DIETWATCH, Innovate4Outcomes, SPRx, SPx, RMDY, Specialty Express, TELAREP, Medicx, Micro-Neighborhood, and Geomedical Targeting
−Removed: are our registered trademarks.
−Removed: We also have several pending trademark applications.
−Removed: also have licenses to intellectual property for the use and sale of certain of our solutions.
−Removed: In addition, we obtain other intellectual
−Removed: property rights and/or licenses used in connection with our business when practical and appropriate.
−Removed: healthcare industry and, in particular, our customers and partners are subject to U.S.
−Removed: federal, state and local laws and regulations,
−Removed: including those governing fraud, abuse, privacy and security.
−Removed: Many of these laws and regulations are complicated and how they might apply
−Removed: to us, our customers, our partners, or the specific services and relationships we have with our customers and partners are not always
−Removed: well-defined.
−Removed: Our failure, or perceived failure, to accurately apply, or comply with, these laws and regulations could subject us to
−Removed: significant fines and liability, result in reputational harm, and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Any new or amended laws or regulations
−Removed: that impose significant operational restrictions and compliance requirements may negatively impact our business.
−Removed: for more information on the impact of Government Regulations on OptimizeRx.
−Removed: of December 31, 2023, we had 116 full-time employees and 1 part-time employee in the U.S, as well as 19 full-time employees in Croatia.
−Removed: None of our employees are represented by a labor union or collective bargaining agreement with respect to their employment with us.
−Removed: majority of our employees work remotely and are geographically distributed across the United States and Croatia.
−Removed: We supplement our workforce
−Removed: with contractors in the United States and internationally on an as-needed basis.
−Removed: We consider our relationship with our employees to be
−Removed: good and have not experienced any work stoppages.
−Removed: are dedicated to providing a supportive and respectful environment to our employees where everyone feels valued, and we celebrate both
−Removed: the differences and similarities among our people.
−Removed: We also believe that diversity in all areas, including cultural background, experience
−Removed: and thought, is essential to bettering a professional environment and in making our Company stronger.
−Removed: Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
−Removed: & Belonging Committee (DEI&B) is actively engaged in improving our culture, hiring practices and training.
−Removed: In 2023, we upheld
−Removed: the Parity Pledge – a commitment made in 2021 to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and one underrepresented minority
−Removed: for every open role, VP or higher.
−Removed: In addition, the DEI&B Committee sponsored quarterly events in 2023, including “Historic
−Removed: Women Inventors”, “Mental Health Awareness”, “Step Challenge”, and “Affinity Groups”.
−Removed: prioritize recruiting, retaining, and incentivizing a highly qualified, diverse workforce as the success of our Company is dependent
−Removed: on the skills, experience, and efforts of our employees.
−Removed: A skilled workforce not only improves a company’s performance, but also
−Removed: contributes to overall employee satisfaction and enhances human capital.
−Removed: We have increased our focus on training and development for
−Removed: our current employees and have implemented a Learning Management System where current and future training modules will be presented and
−Removed: tracked for reporting purposes.
−Removed: We offer other learning and development opportunities and resources to support our employees in achieving
−Removed: and enhancing their development objectives.
−Removed: We equip our managers with the skills and tools to provide ongoing coaching and feedback
−Removed: so employees can maximize their performance and potential, delivering success for the Company and the employee.
−Removed: pay our employees competitively and offer a broad range of company-paid benefits, which we believe are competitive with others in our
+Added: Intellectual Property
+Added: Historically, we have created intellectual property
+Added: or obtained intellectual property through commercial relationships and in connection with acquisitions.
+Added: We own patents important to our business, and
+Added: we expect to continue to file patent applications to protect our research and development investments in new products.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2024, we held five patents and two pending patent applications, including foreign counterpart patents and foreign applications.
+Added: United States, patents may last 20 years from the date of the patent’s filing, subject to term adjustments made by the patent office.
+Added: In addition, we own registered trademarks in the
+Added: United States and other countries.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, OPTIMIZERx, OPTIMIZEMD, CareSpeak, DIETWATCH, Innovate4Outcomes, SPRx,
+Added: SPx, RMDY, Specialty Express, TELAREP, Medicx, Micro-Neighborhood, and Geomedical Targeting are our registered trademarks.
+Added: We also have licenses to intellectual property
+Added: for the use and sale of certain of our solutions.
+Added: In addition, we obtain other intellectual property rights and/or licenses used in connection
+Added: with our business when practical and appropriate.
+Added: Government Regulation
+Added: The healthcare industry and, in particular, our
+Added: customers and partners are subject to U.S.
+Added: federal, state and local laws and regulations, including those governing fraud, abuse, privacy
+Added: and security.
+Added: Many of these laws and regulations are complicated and how they might apply to us, our customers, our partners, or the specific
+Added: services and relationships we have with our customers and partners are not always well-defined.
+Added: Many states have enacted laws regulating
+Added: the processing of personal information which may reduce demand for placing digital ads in general, especially when those ads relate to
+Added: medications, medical products, or health conditions.
+Added: Although our solutions address these laws by using publicly available information
+Added: and by processing de-identified and aggregated information, and we use this data to target geographies rather than individuals, our customers
+Added: and partners in the advertising industry remain subject to these regulatory pressures and may not process personal information in this
+Added: Our failure, or perceived failure, to accurately apply, or comply with, these laws and regulations could subject us to significant
+Added: fines and liability, result in reputational harm, and adversely affect our business.
+Added: Any new or amended laws or regulations that impose
+Added: significant operational restrictions and compliance requirements may negatively impact our business.
+Added: Risk Factors for more
+Added: information on the impact of Government Regulations on OptimizeRx.
+Added: Human Capital
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had 106 full-time
+Added: employees and 1 part-time employee in the U.S, as well as 22 full-time employees in Croatia.
+Added: None of our employees are represented by
+Added: a labor union or collective bargaining agreement with respect to their employment with us.
+Added: The majority of our employees work remotely
+Added: and are geographically distributed across the United States and Croatia.
+Added: We supplement our workforce with contractors in the United States
+Added: and internationally on an as-needed basis.
+Added: We consider our relationship with our employees to be good and have not experienced any work
+Added: We are dedicated to providing a supportive and
+Added: respectful environment for our employees where everyone feels valued, and we celebrate both the differences and similarities among our
+Added: We also believe that diversity in all areas, including cultural background, experience and thought, is essential to bettering
+Added: a professional environment and in making our Company stronger.
+Added: Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee (DEI&B)
+Added: is actively engaged in improving our culture, hiring practices and training.
+Added: In 2023, we upheld the Parity Pledge – a commitment
+Added: made in 2021 to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and one underrepresented minority for every open role, VP or higher.
+Added: In addition, the DEI&B Committee sponsored quarterly events, including “Cultural Café”, “Food Waste Awareness”,
+Added: “Movement Challenge”, and “Affinity Groups”.
+Added: We prioritize recruiting, retaining, and incentivizing
+Added: a highly qualified, diverse workforce as the success of our Company is dependent on the skills, experience, and efforts of our employees.
+Added: A skilled workforce not only improves a company’s performance, but also contributes to overall employee satisfaction and enhances
+Added: human capital.
+Added: We have increased our focus on training and development for our current employees and have implemented a Learning Management
+Added: System where current and future training modules will be presented and tracked for reporting purposes.
+Added: We offer other learning and development
+Added: opportunities and resources to support our employees in achieving and enhancing their development objectives.
+Added: We equip our managers with
+Added: the skills and tools to provide ongoing coaching and feedback so employees can maximize their performance and potential, delivering success
+Added: for the Company and the employee.
+Added: employees competitively and offer a broad range of company-paid benefits, which we believe are competitive with others in our industry.
Moreover, we believe our long-term incentives are structured in a manner to provide time-based vesting schedules that are retentive
−Removed: and we incentivize select employees through the granting of stock-based
−Removed: awards and cash-based performance bonus awards.
−Removed: are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and
−Removed: in accordance therewith, we file reports, proxy and information statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission
−Removed: You can read our SEC filings over the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
−Removed: Our filings with the
−Removed: SEC are also available free of charge through the investor relations section of our website at www.optimizerx.com.
−Removed: available free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file them with, or furnish them to, the SEC.
−Removed: time to time, we also use multiple social media channels to communicate with the public about OptimizeRx.
−Removed: It is possible that the information
−Removed: we post on social media could be deemed to be material information.
−Removed: Therefore, we encourage you to review the information we post on
−Removed: the social media channels listed on our investor relations website, if any.
−Removed: contained on or accessible through the websites and social media channels referred to above is not incorporated by reference in, or otherwise
−Removed: a part of, this Annual Report, and any references to these websites and social media channels are intended to be inactive textual references
+Added: and we incentivize select employees through the granting of stock-based awards and cash-based performance bonus awards.
+Added: Smaller Reporting Company
+Added: We are a “smaller reporting company”
+Added: as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: As a result, we may take advantage of
+Added: certain reduced disclosure obligations available to smaller reporting companies, including the exemption from compliance with the auditor
+Added: attestation requirements pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2022, reduced disclosure about our executive compensation arrangements
+Added: and the requirements to provide only two years of audited financial statements in our annual reports and registration statements.
+Added: continue to be a “smaller reporting company” as long as (1) we have a public float (i.e., the market value of our American
+Added: Depositary Shares held by non-affiliates) less than $250 million calculated as of the last business day of our most recently completed
+Added: second fiscal quarter, or (2) our annual revenues are less than $100 million for our previous fiscal year and we have either no public
+Added: float or a public float of less than $700 million as of the end of that fiscal year’s second fiscal quarter.
+Added: Decreased disclosures
+Added: in our SEC filings due to our status as a “smaller reporting company” may make it harder for investors to analyze our results
+Added: of operations and financial prospects.
+Added: Corporate Information
+Added: On January 31, 2006, Optimizer Systems, L.L.C.
+Added: formed in the State of Michigan and, on October 16, 2007, OptimizeRx Corporation was separately incorporated in Michigan.
+Added: On October 22,
+Added: 2007, Optimizer Systems, LLC merged into OptimizeRx Corporation, a Michigan corporation, and the name OptimizeRx Corporation remained
+Added: unchanged following the merger.
+Added: On April 14, 2008, an alternative reporting company with the OTC Market
+Added: Group, Inc., known at the time as RFID Ltd., and formed in the State of Colorado, entered into a share exchange agreement with the stockholders
+Added: of OptimizeRx Corporation, pursuant to which the stockholders of OptimizeRx Corporation exchanged all of the issued and outstanding capital
+Added: stock of OptimizeRx Corporation for shares of common stock of RFID Ltd.
+Added: As of April 30, 2008, RFID’s officers and directors
+Added: resigned their positions and RFID changed its business to OptimizeRx’s business.
+Added: On April 15, 2008, RFID Ltd’s
+Added: corporate name was changed to OptimizeRx Corporation, a Colorado corporation.
+Added: On September 4, 2008, the Company then completed a migratory
+Added: merger, thereby changing the Company’s state of incorporation from Colorado to Nevada, resulting in OptimizeRx Corporation, a Nevada
+Added: corporation becoming the parent corporation of OptimizeRx Corporation, a Michigan corporation.
+Added: On April 11, 2023, OptimizeRx Corporation,
+Added: a Michigan corporation was merged with and into OptimizeRx Corporation, a Nevada corporation.
+Added: We conduct our operations through our wholly-owned subsidiaries, Healthy
+Added: (d/b/a Medicx Health or “Medicx Health”), a Nevada corporation, and CareSpeak Communications, d.o.o., a controlled
+Added: foreign corporation incorporated in Croatia.
+Added: Our principal executive offices are located at
+Added: 260 Charles Street Suite 302, Waltham, MA 02453 and our telephone number is (248) 651-6568.
+Added: Our website address is www.optimizerx.com .
+Added: Information contained on or accessible through this website is not incorporated by reference in, or otherwise a part of, this Annual Report
+Added: on Form 10-K, and any references to this website are intended to be inactive textual references only.
+Added: Available Information
+Added: We are subject to the informational requirements
+Added: of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and in accordance therewith, we file reports, proxy
+Added: and information statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
+Added: You can read our
+Added: SEC filings over the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
+Added: Our filings with the SEC are also available free of charge through
+Added: the investor relations section of our website at www.optimizerx.com.
+Added: Reports are available free of charge as soon as reasonably
+Added: practicable after we electronically file them with, or furnish them to, the SEC.
+Added: From time to time, we also use multiple social media
+Added: channels to communicate with the public about OptimizeRx.
+Added: It is possible that the information we post on social media could be deemed
+Added: to be material information.
+Added: Therefore, we encourage you to review the information we post on the social media channels listed on our investor
+Added: relations website, if any.
+Added: Information contained on or accessible through
+Added: the websites and social media channels referred to above is not incorporated by reference in, or otherwise a part of, this Annual Report,
+Added: and any references to these websites and social media channels are intended to be inactive textual references only.
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