TUSTIN, Calif., March 23, 1999 -- Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII)
announced today an agreement with Venice Family Clinic of Venice, California
for the joint implementation of QSI’s Medical System and the NextGen®
Electronic Medical Records System, the product of Quality Systems’ subsidiary
Clinitec International, Inc. The agreement calls for an initial installation
of the practice management software, with a roll-out of the electronic
medical records beginning in September.
Venice Family Clinic is a private, non-profit, free clinic founded in 1970 by Dr. Phillip L. Rossman, co-founder Dr. Mayer Davidson, and local community members who were alarmed by the lack of access to health care for low income and homeless families in the area. Today, Venice Family Clinic is the largest free clinic in the United States. Approximately 2,000 volunteers, including 500 medical and mental health professionals, provide free, high-quality medical care to over 17,000 children and adults.
The Medical System will address the unique needs of the Clinic through its specialized features oriented to Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), such as sliding fee scales, UDS reporting, and family size and income tracking. The Medical System also provides a broad base of practice management functionality, including insurance processing, accounts receivable, and patient scheduling.
Clinitec’s NextGen® is an innovative electronic medical records system designed to improve quality of care and increase productivity. NextGen creates and maintains complete medical records with minimal effort while streamlining workflow, controlling utilization, and managing critical data related to outcomes of patient care. The system automatically creates documents and letters, manages prescriptions and clinical images, provides patient education, and exchanges data with hospitals, labs and practice management systems.
Elizabeth Benson Forer, Executive Director of the Venice Family Clinic, stated that, “Venice Family Clinic is very proud to have purchased the QSI System and NextGen. We selected QSI because they are one of the only vendors in the industry that provides user-friendly practice management and electronic medical records capabilities in one package.”
Greg Flynn, Quality Systems’ Executive Vice President, said of the agreement, “Venice Family Clinic is a very unique organization, and they needed a unique solution. We believe that they made the right decision in selecting our integrated offerings for business and clinical automation. We have many years of experience working with large FQHCs like Venice Family Clinic, and we understand their special needs.”
Quality Systems is one of the leading developers and providers of computer-based practice management and electronic medical records systems for medical and dental group practices, with a customer base of approximately 500 clients in 45 states, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including those relating to revenue and net income, that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are volume and timing of systems sales and installations, length of sales cycles and installation process, 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 on the healthcare 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 as applied to the company as of the date hereof.
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