April
23, 2001
Quality
Systems Accepted into The Leapfrog Group
TUSTIN, CA April 23, 2001 Quality Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: QSII), today announced that it has joined The Leapfrog
Group. The Leapfrog Group is a nationwide initiative sponsored
by The Business Roundtable and is a consortium of approximately
80 Fortune 500 companies and other private and public health care
purchasers.
The purpose of the group is to advance initiatives designed to
help reduce preventable medical errors. The group has selected
three areas for its initial focus: implementation of computerized
physician order entry; evidence-based hospital referrals; and
ICU physician staffing guidelines. Group members have also committed
to implement purchasing principles designed to heighten employee
awareness in these areas as well as to recognize and reward hospitals
who are in compliance.
The Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers
of leading corporations with a combined workforce of more than
10 million employees in the United States. More information on
The Leapfrog Group is available at www.leapfroggroup.org.
Quality Systems, Inc. and its MicroMed division are developers
and providers of computer-based practice management, medical records,
and e-business applications for medical and dental group practices.
Visit www.qsii.com for additional information.
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.