Quality Systems Signs Agreement with Decatur Dental Services for Clinical Product Suite Implementation.

Business Editors

TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 30, 1999

Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:QSII) today announced that it has signed an agreement with its long-time customer, Decatur Dental Services ("DDS") of Decatur, Ind., for implementation of the company's Clinical Product Suite.

Under this agreement, DDS will implement the full spectrum of the company's Clinical Product Suite throughout its facility in conjunction with a complete remodeling effort of the practice. The desire to upgrade to the latest technologies while maintaining a superior level of patient care was the motivating factor in management's decision to purchase the comprehensive dental software system.

The state-of-the-art technology offered through the Clinical Product Suite will make electronic tooth charting and treatment planning, voice-activated periodontal charting, intra-oral imaging, digital X-rays, clinical progress notes, and patient education tools available to the practitioners at the point of care.

The new system will enhance the functionality of QSI's Dental Practice Management System, which the general dentistry group has used effectively for more than 15 years.

"After an extensive review of several products, we have chosen QSI's Clinical Product Suite because of the synergy it will create with our current practice management system," remarked Dr. Terry Baker of Decatur Dental Services. "We are confident the innovative features of the Clinical Product Suite will significantly benefit our practice by enhancing case presentations and facilitating efficient patient flow."

Don L. Jackson, vice president of marketing for Quality Systems, said of this agreement: "Decatur Dental Services has made a wise decision to implement our Clinical Product Suite during this phase of renovation. We are pleased DDS has reaffirmed our expertise in the industry and has allowed us the opportunity to help them realize their system enhancement goals.

"With the current trend in dentistry to upgrade to the latest technology, many of our clients have begun to recognize the tremendous benefits their practices can derive from our clinical technology."

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 600 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, 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 Quality Systems' periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as applied to the company as of the date hereof.