NextGen Healthcare, Inc. is an American

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and services company headquartered in

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. The company develops and sells

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(EHR) software and practice management systems to the

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. NextGen Healthcare also provides population health, financial management, and clinical solutions for medical and dental practices. On September 7, 2018, Quality Systems, Inc. changed its name to NextGen Healthcare, Inc. and on September 10, their stock ticker symbol changed to NASDAQ: NXGN.

History

Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) was formed by

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in 1973 in Corona, California, as a dental software company. Sheldon started QSI in his home study with $2,000, and built it into a business with a market capitalization of over a billion dollars, with no debt or venture funding. QSI was incorporated in April 1974. In December 1982, QSI went public through NASDAQ under the symbol QSII. In 1994, Clinitec was formed by Pat Cline and

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to sell software for converting paper medical records into electronic medical records. After acquiring a smaller interest in 1995, QSI purchased the remaining equity of Clinitec in 1996. In May 1997, QSI purchased Micromed, which provided front- and

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. In April 1999, QSI combined Clinitec and MicroMed into one operating division to create the MicroMed division, which was later renamed NextGen Healthcare Information Systems division in 2001. In 2008, NextGen Healthcare then acquired HSI of St. Louis,

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, and Practice Management Partners of

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, to expand its billing services and revenue cycle consulting division. In 2009, NextGen Healthcare updated the name of its electronic medical record system from NextGen EMR to NextGen EHR. In February 2010, Quality Systems entered into an agreement to acquire Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and announced it would be integrated with the assets of Sphere Health Systems, Inc., which were acquired by QSI in August 2009. Both software and services companies for the inpatient market would become part of NextGen Healthcare. In October 2010, NextGen Ambulatory EHR v.5.6.SP1 earned certification for Stage 1 Meaningful Use to support eligible providers in receiving funding under the

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(ARRA). NextGen Inpatient Clinicals v.2.4 earned Stage 1 Meaningful Use certification to support hospitals in December 2010. Version 5.6 certified reporting makes extensive use of included add-on Crystal Reports which mine data from the EHR database. Pat Cline retired from NextGen in 2011, and started up a new

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venture: Lightbeam Health Solutions. In 2013, Quality Systems acquired

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, developers of

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, a popular open-source integration engine used by thousands of healthcare entities. In 2013, NextGen was ranked as one of the Top 20 Most Popular EHR Software Solutions on the market by

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. In 2014, NextGen earned

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Honors for Ambulatory RCM Services. On October 30, 2015, Quality Systems announced an agreement to acquire HealthFusion for $165 million-plus potential additional contingent consideration of up to $25 million. Based in

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, HealthFusion was a privately held developer of web-based software for physicians, hospitals and medical billing services. In October 2019, NextGen Healthcare acquired

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. In November 2019, NextGen Healthcare announced the acquisition of Medfusion and completed the acquisition in December 2019. In December 2019, NextGen Healthcare announced an agreement to acquire

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Products and services

NextGen Healthcare's products include: * NextGen Enterprise Ambulatory EHR (Electronic Health Record). The NextGen EHR is primarily a single, all-encompassing database that combines user management, EHR and EPM. This database can run under

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. * NextGen Practice Management. Shares the same database backend as the core EHR product. * NextGen Office * NextGen Patient Portal * NextGen Health Data Hub * NextGen Health Quality Measures * NextGen Advanced Auditing * NextGen Mobile * NextGen Rosetta interface platform *

''acquired September 2013'' NextGen Healthcare's services include: * Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) * NextGen EDI Services * NextGuard Data Protection

Former products

* NextGen Inpatient Clinicals ''acquired by Quadramed in 2015'' * NextGen Inpatient Financials ''acquired by Quadramed in 2015''

References

External links

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Quality Systems Acquires Opus Healthcare Solutions
- ''Healthcare Innovation'' article
Quality Systems, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire HealthFusion Holdings, Inc.
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