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Nightingale congratulates its clients' achievements in technology leadership and innovation. MARKHAM, ON, Feb. 9, 2012 /CNW/ - Nightingale Informatix Corporation "Nightingale" or "Company", an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services congratulates three of the Company's highly respected physicians who have been honoured by various Healthcare IT awards committees for excellence and innovation in their use of Health IT and Social Media in medical practice. "On behalf of Nightingale, I would like to congratulate three of our valued clients, Dr. Mike Wadden, Uptown Health Centre and Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, for being recognized as technology innovators in healthcare through the respective industry awards they won," said President and CEO of Nightingale Informatix Corporation. "We believe these awards are a strong testament to the increasingly important role technology tools have in enhancing patient care, something that is key to us at Nightingale. We pride ourselves in being a technology leader with our web-based EMR and patient portal offerings, and we are very proud to serving such forward-thinking healthcare practitioners." Dr. Mike Wadden received the CMA's 2011 Community-Based Physician Leader/Innovator Award presented by COACH Dr. Mike Wadden, a family physician who has been one of Nova Scotia's leaders in promoting the use of EMRs has received the CMA's 2011 Community-Based Physician Leader/Innovator Award, which is presented annually by Canada's Health Informatics Association (COACH).  In 2006, he was an early adopter of the provincial electronic medical record system (Nightingale On Demand), and empowers his patients through his website (www.DrMike.squarespace.com).  Dr. Wadden has created an epicentre for innovation in his practice by using the clinical functionality of his EMR outside of the normal scope of most of his peers.  He has been able to not only improve the quality and delivery of care provided to his patients, but been able to ensure his practice is efficiently managed. "We are extremely proud of Dr. Wadden's accomplishment, he is a true leader in every sense of the word." said Sam Chebib.  "Not only does Dr. Wadden volunteer a great deal of his time to work with the Nova Scotia Provincial Primary Health Care Information Management (PHIM) EMR program to promote EMR adoption among his colleagues, but has provided leadership for new physicians establishing practices in his community." Uptown Health Centre is the recipient of Canada Health Infoway's ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge Early Adopter Award in the e-Scheduling category. Uptown Health Centre, a client and partner of Nightingale, is the recipient of Canada Health Infoway's ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge Early Adopter Award.  Uptown Health Centre won in the e-Scheduling category for myPatientAccess, a secure web patient portal powered by Nightingale that offers patients access to their health information and additional health management tools.  The e-Scheduling feature of myPatientAccess qualified as an early adopter based on its functionality, which allows patients to book appointments online without interaction with another person. "We at Uptown Health Centre are committed to supporting eHealth strategies for Ontarians by leveraging advanced EMR and PHR solutions with the help of Nightingale On Demand and myPatientAccess," said Dr. Kaushal of Uptown Health Centre. "We understand that in order to move our National eHealth strategy forward, we need to inspire our peers to adopt innovative IT solutions for the betterment of our health care system." Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine is the winner of B Sharp Technologies' Healthcare Social Media Contest, B Social. Quinte Pediatrics is a devoted team of healthcare professionals led by Dr. Paul Dempsey, who diagnose and treat acute medical conditions, as well as provide care for young patients with complex medical conditions and special needs. "When we were initially searching for EMR vendors, we were attracted to Nightingale's approach to healthcare with its ASP solution and integrated patient portal" said Dr. Paul Dempsey, Director and Owner of Quinte Pediatrics.  "We had outgrown what our previous EMR provider offered, and wanted to partner with a vendor who shared our values of innovation and quality of care.  We saw Nightingale's MyPatientAccess as a true differentiator in the EMR market, and saw great value in the way we would be able to communicate and connect with our patients.  This was the pivotal first step in our plan to create an online community for Quinte Pediatrics, and as you can see, we are well underway."  While Quinte Pediatrics has already established a social media presence using tools such as Facebook, FourSquare and blogging, they plan to use their prize to purchase software and equipment that will allow them to create quality video content in-house.  Their goal is to give their online audience an interactive, 'behind-the-scenes' view of Quinte Pediatrics.  Yet another step towards making their patients feel like they're truly part of the experience. About Nightingale Informatix Corporation (http://www.nightingalemd.ca) Nightingale is one of the fastest growing health care service and software companies in North America and is recognized as an industry leader in Web-based clinician and community based electronic medical records (EMR) and patient portals, 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. 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. Although Nightingale has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Nightingale does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Further information on Nightingale Informatix Corporation is available at www.sedar.com. 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. Nightingale Informatix Corporation CONTACT: Media InquiriesSharmeen ArafatMarketing Manager905.307.3617sarafat@nightingalemd.comInvestor InquiriesKristen Dickson, M.Sc.Equicom, a TMX Group CompanyTel: 416.815.0700 ext. 273kdickson@equicomgroup.com

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