February 02 , 1999

Southeast Texas Medical Associates Begins Building Medical Practice of the Future
Atlanta, GA — MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. and Clinitec International, Inc. both wholly owned subsidiaries of Quality Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: QSII), announced today that Southeast Medical Associates, L.L.P. (SETMA) will be the first to fully implement the completely integrated version of MicroMed�s Practice Management System and Clinitec�s electronic medical records system, NextGen. The MicroMed Practice Management System and NextGen EMR System will increase practice efficiency by seamless exchanging demographic, payer, managed care and clinical information between the two systems. Together, they will form a comprehensive information technology solution to meet the needs of a growing medical practice.

"We evaluated MicroMed�s and Clinitec�s systems separately," says Richmond Holly, SETMA�s MIS manager. "We found they were the most powerful and customizable in their own right and the only two systems that could fully meet our needs.

"As an electronic medical record, NextGen� gives us the ability to do much more than just see patients, enter the visit data using a computer and then store the information on a hard drive . In an environment of managed care, we need to improve the quality of care while at the same time lowering the costs of that care. This solution allows us to do that in many ways including the ability to track outcomes, perform sophisticated drug studies, track patient trends and more.

"MicroMed�s and Clinitec�s systems also allow us to begin providing services to our patients over the Internet. This solution is imperative to manage and grow a medical practice into the next millennium," Holly continues.

"We�re looking forward to working with SETMA to implement what will surely be a cutting-edge, industry leading solution," says Steve Puckett, president of MicroMed. "MicroMed�s easy-to-use, comprehensive functionality will provide a system that SETMA can depend on as they build their state-of-the-art medical facility. In addition, growth of the practice can be accommodated with the sealability and flexibility of our applications."

"SETMA is undertaking a task that many organizations have yet to begin," added Patrick Cline, president of Clinitec. "We have designed NextGen� to enable healthcare providers to improve quality of care, reduce risk, lower costs and increase revenues. We are pleased that this leading-edge organization has selected our integrated system to meet their information needs."

"A continuum of care in which information is available at every point of service is critical for managed care in the 21st century," said Dr. James L. Holly, managing partner at SETMA. "When a patient contacts the physicians on call, it is imperative for the provider to have access to the medication, diagnoses, and instructions given to the patient. These systems make that possible."

About SETMA
Based in Beaumont, Texas, Southeast Texas Medical Associates L.L.P. (www.setma.com), is a growing, primary-medicine health care group, with 15 health-care providers and more than 80 support personnel. SETMA, LLP was formed by Dr. Joseph M. Finley, Dr. James L. Holly and Dr. Mark A. Wilson as a vehicle through which health-care providers could interact with managed care while maintaining patients' health and quality of life in a cost-effective manner.

About MicroMed
MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems (www.micromed.com), with headquarters in Atlanta, provides enterprise practice management systems and services to the medical marketplace utilizing a Microsoft Windows(R)-based graphical user interface (GUI) client-server platform.

About Clinitec
Clinitec International (www.clinitec.com), with headquarters in Horsham, Pa., is a developer and provider of electronic medical records systems that address many of the needs of today's health-care providers in the ambulatory care setting, including electronic charting, image management, automated document generation, prescription management, drug interaction, referral authorization, insurance eligibility verification, contract management and outcomes analysis.

About QSI
Quality Systems (www.qsii.com), with headquarters in Tustin, Calif., is one of the leading developers and providers of computer-based practice management systems for medical and dental group practices, with a customer base of approximately 500 clients in 45 states, Canada and Saudi Arabia. Note to Editors: NextGen(R) is a registered trademark of Clinitec International Inc. All other company and product brand names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders, and are hereby acknowledged. This news release contains forward-looking statements that 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 on 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 as applied to the company as of the date hereof.