Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Stephen Simpson - Northland Securities.
Stephen Simpson - Northland Securities
Could you give us an idea of what the R&D priorities are going to be for the next fiscal year? Then as a partial follow-up, I guess actually the separate second question, could you give us an idea of how many LifeVest prescribers were first timers at this quarter? Thanks.
Rick Packer
I can’t give you any numbers on the last question of lifetime prescribers first timers. I just don’t have any data available. It’s not something that I’m tracking on a regular basis. On R&D priorities, I think it spreads across the company. We’ve mentioned a new military product coming as we finish up the Welch Allyn and Co on the E Series. I think those are our big defib pry or priorities.
On the Temperature Management, we will concentrate on costs and getting some engineering effort into reducing costs of the catheters primarily, so we can drive the gross margin there. On product wise, for the Vest, we have a new 4000 generation, which we brought out at the end of last year. So I don’t think that there’s anything that we’re really concentrating on in the Vest business right now and then of course, layering across all of the companies, continued push in clinical efforts have primarily the CIRC trial.
Stephen Simpson - Northland Securities
If I could try the LifeVest question a different way, maybe without specific numbers. Do you have a sense of what the reorder rates or same store sales if we want to pull that term out of retail? What same store sales might be like with the LifeVest because it pretty much matches the overall growth or what’s the case there?
Rick Packer
So I did analysis on this last time and we talked about this last time, because it was a question of is growth coming from simply new sales people or old sales people ramping up. We provided a bunch of data and that three months ago said that we’re getting as much growth from existing people that are in territories expanding their penetration as we are from adding new sales people. I have no reason to think that would have changed in the past three months.
Operator
Your next question comes from Joshua Zable - Natixis.
Joshua Zable - Natixis
Couple of questions here, just first of all for clarity’s sake, I know you’re talking about Welch Allyn. So we understand there’s a new AED, which is being sold internationally and there’s another product, which is a military product that’s being developed. So there are two separate Welch Allyn products. Am I correct on that?
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