Clinitec International Announces Agreement with Stormont-Vail HealthCare for the Implementation of NextGen.HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997--Clinitec International Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Quality Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :QSII), announced today that it has executed an agreement with Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka, Kansas This article is about the state capital of Kansas. For other uses, see Topeka (disambiguation). Topeka is the capital of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County, which is named after the Shawnee Indians. . Under the agreement, Stormont-Vail will implement the NextGen(R) Electronic Medical Record System in its network of ambulatory care ambulatory care n. Medical care provided to outpatients. ambulatory care, n the health services provided on an outpatient basis to those who can visit a health care facility and return home the same day. clinics. NextGen(R) is an innovative electronic medical record system designed to improve quality, reduce risk, cut costs and increase revenue. NextGen creates and maintains complete medical records with minimal effort, streamlines workflow, controls utilization and manages critical data related to outcomes of patient care. It automatically creates documents and letters, manages prescriptions and clinical images, provides patient education and exchanges data with hospitals, labs and practice management systems. Stormont-Vail will deploy the system using dual IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS6000 model R50's and IBM's high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. features to maintain system uptime for their 17 clinic locations throughout northeast Kansas. Wayne Stucky, director, Information Systems at Stormont-Vail, said: "Solutions like NextGen will help Stormont-Vail continue to improve quality and efficiency. After an extensive review of systems, we feel Clinitec's technology outpaces competitive systems." Kent Palmberg, M.D., Stormont-Vail's Medical Director said: "We're excited about the NextGen product and its ability to share data between healthcare providers, clinic locations and other information systems. The NextGen product will revolutionize the way we document patient care. It will create new opportunity in productivity and quality improvement." Patrick Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. , president of Clinitec International added: "This opportunity was important to Clinitec and we're delighted to have prevailed in a very competitive selection process. We look forward to working with Stormont-Vail to deploy one of the largest outpatient EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. Systems in the country." Clinitec, headquartered in Horsham, is a subsidiary of Quality Systems Inc. Quality Systems is a leading provider 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 Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. . -0- This press 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, 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 the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. CONTACT: Quality Systems Inc. Robert G. McGraw, 714/731-7171 or Stormont-Vail HealthCare Wayne Stucky, 913/354-6349 or Coffin Communications Group William Coffin or Rachel Reynolds Rachel Reynolds is an American model and actress who is currently one of "Barker's Beauties" on the game show The Price Is Right. In 2002, she was one of the finalists in the search to replace Brooke Burke as the host of Wild On!. , 818/789-0100 |
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