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Craneware

September 2013

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Craneware, the supplier of billing and auditing software to US hospitals, has stated that revenues will be below expectations for the current year and in a range of US$41m-US$42m with adjusted EBITDA US$11.9m-US$12.6m. Although it continues to see increased sales activity and conversion of its sales pipeline into revenue in small and medium sized hospitals the bugbear was that it hasn't been able to sign any larger hospital deals. These larger contracts are more complex and harder to predict when they will be closed and management has responded by dedicating extra resources to solve this issue. As Craneware state â€œfiscal and regulatory pressures on all US hospitals continue to drive interest in its productsâ€ so medium ter ...

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