Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Gennius, Inc.

Acquisition to provide new enterprise analytics capabilities for QSI’s Subsidiary, Mirth

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII), announced today it has acquired Gennius, a leading provider of healthcare data analytics. The acquisition is expected to enhance the Company’s current enterprise analytics competencies while broadening its business intelligence capabilities for addressing new value-based care requirements.

Founded in 2002, Cambridge, Mass.-based Gennius is a healthcare analytics company with capabilities to harmonize data to prepare and compute utilization and quality analyses of integrated patient, administrative, and financial data across medical settings and time periods. Its solutions generate comprehensive performance information needed to successfully support provider organizations under new coordinated delivery and reimbursement models.

Gennius’ data analytics engine embeds industry specifications as well as payer contract requirements into functionality that provides prioritized actionable insight into patient care, population health and ACO community performance. This includes computing and submitting measurement results for reporting programs, such as Meaningful Use (MU), Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO) and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).

“Gennius is pleased to join forces with QSI and its subsidiaries, Mirth and NextGen Healthcare,” said Bernadette Downey, former chief executive officer for Gennius, Inc. “By combining our engineering expertise and methodologies with Mirth’s premier open source connectivity tools and powerful visualization console, we are able to provide customers with access to an unparalleled enterprise system. The system affords users an in-depth data-driven approach to care and helps healthcare community teams align their efforts, succeed in meeting their financial goals and deliver on their population health initiatives.”

“Utilization and quality of care remain consistent focuses of value-driven organizations. To remain viable, value-driven organizations like ACOs must find ways to leverage agile solutions that can scale and adapt to industry demands, dictated by evolving value-based and coordinated care initiatives,” said Steve Plochocki, president and chief executive officer for QSI. “By integrating Gennius’ extensive data analytics and reporting capabilities with NextGen Healthcare and Mirth solutions, we are bringing to market the analytics-based enterprise system needed to provide actionable data intelligence to all agents involved in the community of care delivery. This further strengthens the position of the company and that of our clients for continued success and growth amid the new pay for performance arena.”

About Quality Systems, Inc.

Irvine, Calif.-based Quality Systems, Inc. and its NextGen Healthcare subsidiary develop and market computer-based practice management, electronic health records and revenue cycle management applications as well as connectivity products and services for medical and dental group practices and small hospitals. Visit www.qsii.com and www.nextgen.com for additional information.

   

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