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 announced an agreement with the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest physician organization, to offer physicians NextGen® Ambulatory EHR and NextGen® Practice Management on a new AMA online platform.
“NextGen Healthcare is a leader in maintaining the latest certifications available and we are confident in the company's commitment to helping physicians demonstrate Meaningful Use of a certified EHR”
The AMA platform will enable physicians to assess and meet their clinical and practice needs. It will provide physicians access to information, products and services with a single, secure sign-on. The platform, which will launch nationwide by the beginning of 2011, is currently being beta tested in Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan State Medical Society.
NextGen Healthcare's competitively priced SaaS subscription model includes its award-winning EHR and practice management systems and serves as an alternative to the traditional software license purchase model. Under the SaaS model, users will be able to access the hosted NextGen® solutions through the AMA platform, helping them save on the typical upfront costs of purchasing a system. NextGen Healthcare's SaaS offering packages everything a physician practice needs to reach the next level of healthcare automation, including state-of-the-art hosting, implementation, training, maintenance, image scanning and superior client support.
"NextGen Healthcare is a leader in maintaining the latest certifications available and we are confident in the company's commitment to helping physicians demonstrate Meaningful Use of a certified EHR," said AMA Secretary Steven Stack M.D. "NextGen Healthcare consistently displays a commitment to physicians in small and medium-sized practices by delivering tools, clinical encounter forms, and workflow automation tailored to their practice needs. By working together, NextGen Healthcare's technology and services will help physicians best leverage electronic health record technology in their practices."
"We are pleased that the AMA has chosen NextGen Healthcare to help physicians automate their practices and strive to secure stimulus funds as meaningful users," said Scott Decker, President of NextGen Healthcare. "With the breadth and depth of our suite of solutions now being offered though a SaaS model, we are confident that NextGen Healthcare can provide all medical specialties a complete offering. Our flexible SaaS model enables smaller practices to gain the same advantages of healthcare automation as their larger counterparts at a price they can afford. Consistent with our Money-Back Guarantee, we've also promised the AMA that our software will evolve to meet the requirements of Meaningful Use."
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