July
8 , 1999
Medical
College of Wisconsin Implements NextGen EMR for Physician Residency
Program
Horsham,
Pa. MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems, a division
of Quality Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII), Thursday announced an agreement
under which the Medical College of Wisconsin will install NextGen(R)
EMR.
The
Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, freestanding academic
institution dedicated to excellence in education, research and
patient care. It's multispecialty group practice, comprising more
than 600 physicians offering care in every specialty of medicine,
is eastern Wisconsin's sole academic-based practice.
Each
year its physicians care for more than 180,000 patient at major
affiliates Froedtert Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
and the VA Medical Center-Milwaukee and at many other urban
and rural hospitals and clinics throughout the region.
NextGen
EMR is an innovative electronic medical records system designed
to improve quality of care, reduce risk, cut costs and increase
revenue. NextGen creates and maintains complete medical records,
streamlines workflow, controls utilization and manages critical
data related to outcomes of patient care.
NextGen
automatically creates documents and letters, generates prescriptions,
stores clinical images, provides patient education and exchanges
data with hospitals, labs and practice management systems.
NextGen
EMR has been successfully implemented at a number of other physician
residency programs in university medical center settings.
Patrick
Cline, president of MicroMed, said: "NextGen is a great match
for teaching institutions. We've incorporated advanced resident
and faculty security and sign-off capabilities, sophisticated
work flow triggers and customizable alerts and clinical pathways.
NextGen is also very easy to use. We're pleased that the product
has been chosen by the Medical College of Wisconsin and look forward
to working with this innovative organization."
The
MicroMed division is a result of the recently announced combination
of Clinitec International, Inc. and MicroMed Healthcare Information
Systems Inc., both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Quality
Systems Inc.
Quality
Systems is one of the leading developers and providers of computer-based
practice management and electronic medical records systems for
medical and dental group practices, with a customer base of approximately
500 clients in 45 states, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
This
news release contains 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 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 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; charges in product 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 Quality Systems'
periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.