Practice Plus Chooses NextGen® Enterprise Solutions

Business Wire,  April 16, 2008  

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MSO partners with NextGen Healthcare to offer integrated technology to its Arkansas-based clients

HORSHAM, Pa. -- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of ambulatory healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced that Practice Plus, a management services organization (MSO) supporting physician practices throughout Arkansas, has selected NextGen Healthcare's suite of enterprise software solutions to enhance its clients' clinical and administrative performance. Products selected include NextGen Electronic Medical Records (EMR), NextGen Enterprise Practice Management (EPM) and NextGen Image Control System (ICS), as well as the NextMD(sm) patient portal.

Established in 1993, Practice Plus provides management, billing services, computer software and hardware support and/or consulting services to more than 200 physicians in 70-plus medical practices. Practice Plus purchased NextGen EPM for all of its client practices and NextGen EMR for employed physicians.

Practice Plus chose NextGen Healthcare because of its proven track record with large, multi-specialty organizations, and because its integrated database enhances information sharing and streamlines workflow. Information captured within NextGen EPM is immediately accessible within NextGen EMR, minimizing redundant data entry. Integration at the database level also reduces support, training and system administration efforts.

Practice Plus anticipates that NextGen EMR's out-of-the box, specialty-specific content will make adoption easy, because it supports workflow processes familiar to the various specialties that the MSO serves. NextMD also will facilitate electronic communication between practices and patients, likely improving patient satisfaction and reducing the number of phone calls and mailings each practice now manages.

By adopting the NextGen enterprise solution, Practice Plus will be able to offer advanced health information technology across the state of Arkansas. Citing burgeoning governmental initiatives, quality improvement standards and pay-for-performance programs, Guy Gardner, MD, medical director for Practice Plus, notes that these systems are no longer "nice to have," but "need to have" tools. "Our partnership with NextGen Healthcare will allow Practice Plus to offer leading integrated, multi-specialty EMR and EPM software to practices large and small throughout the state," he says. "By leveraging tremendous economies of scale, practices will be able to afford top-of-the-line software at entry level prices."

About NextGen Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII), develops and markets computer-based practice management and electronic medical records systems for medical group practices and Healthcare Systems. For more information about NextGen, please visit www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com.

About Practice Plus

Established in 1993, Practice Plus is an Arkansas-based physician resource company providing management, centralized or clinic-based billing services, computer software and hardware support, and consulting services to more than 200 physicians in 70-plus medical practices across the state. For more information, please visit http://www.practice-plus.com/index.htm.

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