Horsham, PA — February 24, 2003 — NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII), today announced that the company�s NextGen EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and Nextgen EPM (Enterprise Practice Management) applications were awarded top honors in the Administrative/Financial Systems and Clinical/Patient Information Systems categories of the MS-HUG Industry Solution Awards. The awards were presented during a ceremony conducted in connection with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in San Diego.

MS-HUG holds the annual Industry Solutions Awards for Healthcare (ISAH) event to recognize independent software vendors that utilize Microsoft technology to provide significant business benefits to healthcare organizations. Vendor�s solutions were scored according to the following criteria: business benefit to the customer, business agility, ease of adoption, solutions architecture used in developing the solution, and technical challenges.

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Quality Systems, Inc. and its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary are developers and providers of computer-based practice management, medical records, and connectivity applications for medical and dental group practices. Visit www.qsii.com and www.nextgen.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.

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Quality Systems Inc., Irvine
Louis Silverman,
President & CEO
(949) 255-2600