IRVINE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 17, 2002 — Quality Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII - News) announced today that it has been named to the Forbes Magazine list of "The 200 Best Small Companies" for the second consecutive year. Debuting last year at #158 on the list, QSI rose to #77 in the 2002 rankings. Companies were evaluated based on sales growth, earnings growth, return on equity, and relative stock price strength.

Quality Systems and its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary develop and market computer-based practice management and electronic patient records systems for dental and medical group practices.

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 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