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MARKHAM, ON, May 9 /CNW/ -- Seat sales up approximately 200% year-over-year MARKHAM, ON, May 9 /CNW/ - Nightingale Informatix Corporation (TSX-V: NGH) ("Nightingale" or the "Company"), an application service provider (ASP) of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software and related services, today announced that during Fiscal 2011 ended March 31, 2011, it signed agreements to deploy more than 850 seats across North America, compared to approximately 290 seats in Fiscal 2010. (A "seat" is defined as a paying healthcare provider using Nightingale's Electronic Medical Record). More than 200 of the FY2011 total seats were sold during the fourth quarter. "As evidenced by the almost 200% year-over-year increase in the number of seats we signed, the North American EMR market environment is improving, and we are successfully capitalizing on the opportunity," said Sam Chebib, President & CEO, Nightingale Informatix Corporation. "The availability of government funding has been a significant near-term catalyst for increasing adoption rates. However, we are confident that the strengthening of the EMR market demonstrates a growing recognition among physicians of the value EMR technology brings to medical practices, moving us toward the phase of mass adoption." During the fourth quarter, in Canada, Nightingale's success was primarily in the SMB (Small and Medium Business) healthcare sector, particularly driven by agreements supported through OntarioMD's EMR implementation funding program. Contract wins of note include family health organizations in Windsor, London, Ottawa, Hamilton, Muskoka and Mississauga, in addition to numerous wins with other Canadian clinics.  In the US, the Company signed an EMR agreement with a specialized nursing facility in upstate New York. Mr. Chebib added: "EMR is a key growth driver for our business. With our new seat sale wins, we are strengthening our cash from operations and growing our deferred revenue base, with the top line impact becoming more evident over the longer term in the form of recurring revenues. Although there may still be some near-term fluctuations, we anticipate that North American healthcare practitioners' adoption of EMR will continue to gain momentum." About Nightingale Informatix Corporation Nightingale is one of the fastest growing health care service and software companies in North America. It is recognized as an industry leader in Web-based (ASP) clinician and community based electronic medical records (EMR) serving the needs of small primary care practices, multi-physician outpatient clinics, and large scale regional health organizations and networks. Coupled with integrated practice management, transcription and revenue cycle management, Nightingale's comprehensive service offering allows customers to enhance patient care, increase revenue opportunities and optimize operations. Nightingale is continuously innovating and enhancing its services to meet the needs of its growing and diverse customer base.  Nightingale - Healthcare connected.  www.nightingalemd.com Forward Looking Statement This press release contains "forward-looking statements" respecting the issuance and cancellation of securities of the Company within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward- looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may" ,"could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Nightingale to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks related to the speculative nature of the medical software industry, which is affected by numerous factors beyond Nightingale's control; the ability of Nightingale to successfully integrate its acquisitions and any liabilities arising as a result of such acquisitions, access to capital and agreements with its Lenders; the existence of present and possible future government regulation; access to debt or equity financing and agreements with its Lenders; the significant and increasing competition that exists in the medical software industry; the early stage of Nightingale's business; and therefore it is subject to the risks associated with early stage companies, including uncertainty of revenues, markets and profitability and the need to raise additional funding.  All material assumptions used in making forward-looking statements are based on management's knowledge of current business conditions and expectations of future business conditions and trends. Although management believes the assumptions used to make such statements are reasonable at this time, our assumptions may not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Certain material factors or assumptions applied by management in making forward-looking statements, include without limitation, factors and assumptions regarding Nightingale's continued ability to fund its business, rates of customer defaults, relationships with, and payments to, lenders, demand for Nightingale's products, as well as Nightingale's operating cost structure. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/09/c2496.html p Kristen Dickson, M.Sc.br/ Account Executivebr/ Equicom, a TMX Group Companybr/ Tel: 416.815.0700 ext. 273br/ a href="mailto:kdickson@equicomgroup.com"kdickson@equicomgroup.com/a /p

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