NextGen®
Wins Top Honors at Microsoft Healthcare
Users Group (MS-HUG) Awards
-- NextGen®
EMR and NextGen® EPM voted best in
two categories
HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March
1, 2004-- NextGen Healthcare
Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary
of Quality Systems, Inc. (QSII:NASDAQ),
today announced that the company’s
NextGen® EPM (Enterprise Practice
Management) and NextGen® EMR (Electronic
Medical Records) applications were awarded
top honors in the Administrative/Financial
Systems and Ambulatory Care: Clinical/Patient
Information Systems categories of the
MS-HUG Industry Solution Awards for the
2nd consecutive year. The awards were
presented during a ceremony conducted
in connection with the Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
conference in Orlando, Florida.
HUG holds the annual Industry Solutions
Awards for Healthcare (ISAH) to recognize
individuals and organizations in the healthcare
industry for their innovative development
on, and use of, Microsoft technology to
provide tangible business benefits and
improved patient care. Vendor’s
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 MS-HUG
With headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
the independent, nonprofit Microsoft Healthcare
Users Group is the leading healthcare
industry forum for exchanging ideas, promoting
learning and sharing solutions for information
systems using Microsoft technologies.
MS-HUG works to provide industry leadership,
drive appropriate standards and develop
associated requirements in support of
healthcare solutions. The diverse membership
of MS-HUG is united by a shared interest
in implementing vendor- and user-developed
software based on Microsoft technology
to improve quality and efficiency in healthcare.
More information can be found on MS-HUG’s
Web site at www.mshug.org.
About NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems,
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality
Systems, Inc., develops and markets computer-based
practice management and electronic medical
records systems for medical and dental
group practices. In business for more
than 25 years, QSI is profitable and has
a history of financial health and customer
service. Please visit www.nextgen.com
and www.qsii.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.
