NextGen Healthcare Names 2011 Best Practice Award Winners at Annual Users Group Meeting

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. QSII, and leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, this week revealed the recipients of its sixth annual Best Practice Awards. Winners were honored Monday evening at the NextGen Healthcare Users' Group Meeting (UGM) in Las Vegas, Nev. before an audience of more than 4,200 attendees.

NextGen Healthcare's Best Practice Awards acknowledge three clients for exemplary use of NextGen® solutions. This year, clients leveraged NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, NextGen® Practice Management, NextGen® Patient Portal, NextGen™ Health Information Exchange and NextGen™ Consulting Services to help transform their practices and achieve a significant return-on-investment:

• Small Practice: Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Kingston, Wash., implemented an evidence-based preventative care and chronic disease management program using NextGen® solutions as the nexus. It has also increased visits reportable to the Indian Health Service by 44 percent; enhanced billings by 35 percent; saved more than $230,000 annually on staffing; and recovered more than 30 hours on audits of diabetic patient charts and age- and gender-appropriate preventive screenings and immunizations.
• Mid-Size Practice: Drs. Goodman & Partridge, OB/GYN, Chandler, Ariz., leveraged the ability to make critical patient information readily available, searchable and reportable to improve its efficiency and become the largest OB/GYN practice in Arizona. The practice has saved more than $1.5 million in staff hours and office supplies, and in a recent seven-month period increased revenue by 26.36 percent and decreased A/R time by 76 days.
• Large Practice: Nautilus Healthcare Management Group, Newport Beach, Calif., used virtually all NextGen® solutions to develop a successful system of population health management and to support an enterprise database with 200 physicians, 15 specialties and 80 practices. Today it serves as a communications hub within its community of physicians, patients, hospitals, diagnostic facilities and Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), managing the exchange of 500,000 patient records. Physicians have also improved patient satisfaction up to 20 percent; decreased central billing office staffing ratios by 20 percent; and received nearly $1 million in Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) incentive payments in 2010.

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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc., provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory, inpatient and dental provider organizations. For more information, please visit www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com. Follow NextGen Healthcare on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nextgen or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NextGenHealthcare.

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