MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems Signs Agreement With St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center to Provide Enterprise Practice-Management Solution.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1997--MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII), Wednesday announced that it has signed an agreement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (SARMC), a member of Holy Cross Health System, to provide an enterprise practice-management solution for its outpatient integrated delivery network.

SARMC, founded in 1895 and serving practitioners in southern Idaho, will utilize the MicroMed enterprise practice-management solution in order to provide integrated practice management throughout its IDS and the physicians it serves.

Leslie Kelly Hall, vice president and chief information officer for SARMC, commented: ``After reviewing over 60 vendors representing a myriad of technologies and experiences, SARMC chose MicroMed because of its intuitive ease of use, client-server architecture and integrating capabilities within our HL-7 data repository and integration methodology.

``We were able to go live in four sites on the same day, integrating with our Master Patient Index (MPI) and converting patient history from multiple legacy systems. The product and company have proven their technical capabilities with an excellent customer-service focus not found in many existing practice- management providers.

``We rank MicroMed as one of our top vendor relationships established this year. We will achieve our ROI in less than 18 months with the implementation of MicroMed, and the subsequent elimination of the existing systems and outsourced staff. The integration with our MPI will enable us to readily identify all Medicare patients and more easily and efficiently address the `72 Hour Rule' regulatory requirements.

``Clearly, MicroMed has embraced the newest technology available, and in doing so is redefining the future of practice- management systems in health care.''

Added Steve Puckett, president of MicroMed: ``We are exceptionally pleased to have been chosen by SARMC because we know they reviewed dozens of vendors. Our being selected is proof positive that MicroMed provides a premium practice-management product. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with SARMC.''

MicroMed is one of the most feature-rich applications available for practice management. The ability to access the MPI and rapidly schedule appointments through the application, as well as being able to scan images of patient insurance and identification cards to be stored in the patient files, saves the user time.

The billing and collections module readily handles managed care, capitation and fee-for-service reimbursements while editing claims prior to submission to create clean claims and to shorten A/R days. The smooth workflow across the various modules creates improved operational efficiencies for both the practice and central management offices.

Sheldon Razin, chief executive officer of Quality Systems, said of the agreement: ``We are excited about MicroMed's agreement with St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, and we believe our technology and their needs are a good fit. We are pleased to see our newly acquired MicroMed subsidiary moving forward with their marketing plans and developing new client relationships.''

QSI 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. -0-

This news release contains forward-looking statements, including those relating to the company's expectations of MicroMed and anticipated operating results, 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 of MicroMed will not achieve market acceptance or be successfully integrated with the company's other products and operations; 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 the company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

CONTACT: MicroMed Healthcare Information Systems Inc., Atlanta

Dolf Schmitz, 404/467-1500

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Quality Systems Inc., Tustin

Robert G. McGraw, 714/731-7171

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St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, Idaho 

Leslie Kelly Hall, 208/367-3892

or

Coffin Communications Group, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

William F. Coffin or Rachel Reynolds, 818/789-0100