NextGen
Wins Top Honors at Microsoft Healthcare
Users Group -- MS-HUG -- Awards -- NextGen
Applications Voted Best in Two Categories.
HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Feb.
25, 2003-- NextGen Healthcare
Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary
of Quality Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII
- News), today announced that the company's
NextGen EMR (Electronic Medical Records)
and NextGen EPM (Enterprise Practice Management)
applications were awarded top honors in
the Administrative/Financial Systems and
Clinical/Patient Information Systems categories
of the MS-HUG Industry Solution Awards.
The awards were presented during a ceremony
conducted in connection with the Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) conference in San Diego.
MS-HUG holds the annual Industry Solutions
Awards for Healthcare (ISAH) event to
recognize independent software vendors
that utilize Microsoft technology to provide
significant business benefits to healthcare
organizations. Vendors' solutions were
scored according to the following criteria:
business benefit to the customer, business
agility, ease of adoption, solutions architecture
used in developing the solution, and technical
challenges.
About
Quality Systems
Quality Systems, Inc. and its NextGen
Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary
are developers and providers of computer-based
practice management, medical records,
and connectivity applications for medical
and dental group practices. Visit www.qsii.com
and www.nextgen.com
for additional information.
Contact:
Quality Systems Inc., Irvine
Lou Silverman, 949/255-2600
www.qsii.com
or
Coffin Communications Group, Sherman Oaks,
Calif.
William F. Coffin/Sean Collins, 818/789-0100
www.coffincg.com
This news release may contain forward-looking
statements, including those related to
revenue and net income, that involve a
number of risks and uncertainties. Among
the important factors that could impact
actual results are volume and timing of
systems sales and installations; length
of sales cycles and installation process;
the possibility that the products will
not achieve market acceptance; seasonal
patterns of sales and customer buying
behavior; the development by competitors
of new or superior technologies; delays
in product development; undetected errors
or bugs in software; product liability;
changing economic, political or regulatory
influences in the health-care industry;
changes in product-pricing policies; competitive
pressures; possible regulation of the
company's software by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration; general economic
conditions; and the risk factors detailed
from time to time in Quality Systems'
periodic reports and registration statements
filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.