NextGen Healthcare’s Hospital Clients to Be Recognized for Achieving Meaningful Use

Inpatient facilities to be celebrated at annual Users’ Group Meeting for attestation under Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

HORSHAM, Pa. (November 15, 2011) – NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today will recognize several critical access hospital clients for their successful Stage 1 Meaningful Use attestation.

Bullock County Hospital, Union Springs, AL; Crenshaw Community Hospital, Luverne, AL; King’s Daughters’ Hospital and Health Services, Yazoo City, MS; Salem Township Hospital, Salem, IL; and Washington County Hospital, Nashville, IL, will be recognized at the 2011 NextGen Healthcare Users’ Group Meeting for meeting all measures required under the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.

“Rural and community hospitals face distinct challenges relevant to the adoption of healthcare IT,” said Kim Larkin, MBA, CPHIMS, chief information officer at Washington County Hospital. “Few vendors offer the technology and resources we require to achieve such milestones, but having NextGen Healthcare as our partner through this process was critical to our success.”

Washington County Hospital selected NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals in the spring of 2010 to complement its use of NextGen® Inpatient Financials and to help the facility secure incentives introduced by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). NextGen Healthcare also worked closely with other external vendors to help ensure a seamless integration with the hospital’s technology infrastructure. Washington County’s ambulatory providers are currently working towards Meaningful Use attestation using NextGen® Ambulatory EHR. In addition, Washington County is implementing NextGen(TM) Health Information Exchange, a critical tool for fulfilling the data exchange requirements anticipated in Stage 2 Meaningful Use.

“The majority of Meaningful Use success stories to date come from large hospitals and physician practices,” noted Steve Puckett, executive vice president and general manager at NextGen Inpatient Solutions. “These clients are leaders in many ways when it comes to deploying healthcare technology, but this milestone serves as a significant example to other community hospitals that Meaningful Use is in fact achievable with the right technology, support and partnership.”

NextGen Healthcare’s 2011 Users’ Group Meeting is being held at the MGM Grand® Hotel & Conference Center in Las Vegas, November 13

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