April 06 , 2000

Quality Systems' MicroMed Division to Launch NextMD.com
Health Portal to Provide Patients with Health Content and Tools via Internet

HORSHAM, Pa. — Co-branded Interface with Physicians' Office Systems to Enhance Doctor-Patient Communication, Physician Practice Efficiency.

Quality Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII - news) announced today that its MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems division will launch an Internet-based consumer health portal, NextMD.com.

NextMD.com, targeted for launch in late April 2000, will be a vertical portal for the healthcare industry, linking patients with their physicians, insurers, laboratories and online pharmacies, while providing a centralized source of health-oriented information for both consumers and medical professionals.

Planned features include health articles and news that will be updated daily, health reference libraries, a healthcare-oriented Internet search engine, polls and surveys on health questions, links to numerous health sites, health calculators, and a number of unique features designed to revolutionize communications between patients and their doctors. Nearly all features will be free of charge to both patients and physicians.

Patients whose physicians are linked to the portal will be able to request appointments, send appointment changes or cancellations, receive test results online, request prescription refills, view and/or pay their statements, and communicate with their physicians, all in a secure, online environment. MicroMed's NextGen suite of information systems will be linked to NextMD.com, integrating a number of these features with physicians' existing systems.

"We believe that NextMD.com will be an invaluable tool for patients to actively manage their own health and healthcare delivery, while enhancing the physician's ability to manage their practices more effectively and to enrich the doctor-patient relationship," said Patrick Cline, MicroMed's President. "It's estimated that over 100 million people searched the Internet for health information during the last year, and most consumers say they would like to be more involved with the care process and communicate more effectively with their doctors. Physicians are looking for solutions that will increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve quality. NextMD.com will allow the physician to harness the Internet's power of real-time, rules-based interaction to enhance the quality of the doctor-patient relationship, reduce clerical errors and make medical practices more efficient."

MicroMed, which is the result of a combination of Clinitec International, Inc. and MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., offers a modular suite of state-of-the-art information systems for physicians known as NextGen. The NextGen suite includes NextGen EMR, MicroMed's Electronic Medical Records System, and NextGen EPM, MicroMed's Enterprise Practice Management System.

NextMD.com will also be able to communicate with a number of other vendors practice management systems, including systems from Medical Manager (Nasdaq:MMGR - news), IDX Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:IDXC - news), Infocure Corp. (Nasdaq:INCX - news), PCN, MEDIC and others, as well as Quality Systems' other practice management products.

MicroMed intends to "co-brand" the portal site with a number of large medical practices and networks of physicians. When a patient links to NextMD.com from a physician or hospital Web site, the portal can display information about that entity, and provide return links.

Brad Block, Chief Information Officer of Doylestown Hospital, one of the first MicroMed customers to integrate its systems with the NextMD.com portal, said, "Many of our physicians say their patients are interested in communicating with them using the Internet. These patients also want to obtain accurate and timely healthcare information. Given the rich functionality, reliability and state-of-the-art security for which MicroMed's products are known, we are excited about the positive impact NextMD will have on our practices and on the community."

The Company also announced that it has executed a number of agreements with organizations that will provide third-party content and/or features for NextMD.com, including Clinical Reference Systems, Medical Data Exchange, Health24News, Onhealth.com (Nasdaq:ONHN - news), Aeneid, and others.

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