June
16 , 2000
MicroMed
Announces Agreement With drugstore.com
Successfully Completes RxML Certification Program
HORSHAM,
Pa MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems, a division
of Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII - news) today announced an
agreement with drugstore.com (Nasdaq:DSCM - news) and the successful
completion of the drugstore.com RxML(TM) electronic prescribing
certification process.
With
drugstore.com's cooperation, MicroMed has developed the capability
for NextGen EMR, MicroMed's electronic medical records system,
to send electronic prescriptions securely to drugstore.com's online
pharmacy directly from physicians' exam rooms.
Prescribed
medications can then be dispensed by drugstore.com and delivered
directly to patients. drugstore.com's RxML standard was developed
to conform to the NCPDP's (National Council for Prescription Drug
Programs) widely accepted SCRIPT standard using state-of-the-art
XML technology.
"Drugstore.com
is committed to working with MicroMed to streamline the electronic
prescribing process, thereby reducing the potential for prescribing
errors, increasing overall efficiencies, and helping physicians
and their patients,'' said Marc Lilly, Director of Health Services
for drugstore.com.
Drugstore.com(TM)is
a leading on-line drugstore and information site offering health,
beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy products. Quality
Systems is a developer and provider of computer-based practice
management and medical records systems for medical and dental
group practices.
This
news release contains forward-looking statements, including those
related to revenue and net income, which 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;
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.