Nightingale Appoints an Experienced Operations Executive

The Company Continues to Execute on its Brand Promise

MARKHAM, ON, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Nightingale Informatix Corporation ("Nightingale" or the "Company") (TSX-V: NGH), an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, today announced the appointment of Trevor Henderson to the role of Executive Vice President of Operations, effective immediately.  In his role, Mr. Henderson will be an integral part of the Nightingale executive management team. He will oversee the Company's operations in Canada and the US. His teams will have primary responsibility for Nightingale's existing client base, working to achieve the core tenets of Nightingale's Brand Promise, including unparalleled customer service, dedicated ethical people, superior products and Apostle training programs.

"We are excited to have Trevor join the team; his leadership and experience will be a big asset to Nightingale," said Sam Chebib, President and CEO of Nightingale.  "Trevor's key mandate is to deepen our relationships with our client base, and to strengthen our ability to deliver on our brand promise of offering best-in-class customer satisfaction.  By better aligning our internal infrastructure with our customers' requirements, we can ensure that their needs are being met and addressed in a more effective manner."

A respected industry veteran, Mr. Henderson has almost 20 years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, information technology and marketing.  He has held many operational and executive positions in the finance and technology fields, driving technology development, operations, acquisition integration and business development.

In his last position, Mr. Henderson was Senior Vice President & Managing Director at ADESA and OPENLANE, divisions of KAR Auction Services, a NYSE-listed company providing diversified automotive auction, technology and financing services across North America. In this role, Mr. Henderson was the head of a Canadian electronic commerce business facilitating several billion dollars in online vehicle sales. During the past nine years, Mr. Henderson provided strategic, technology and operations leadership in Canada and the US, including responsibilities for online platform development, market and partner development, and acquisitions. Mr. Henderson holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science from McMaster University.

About Nightingale
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) 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.ca

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",  "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", "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 secure customer contracts and the timing of securing such contracts; the ability of Nightingale to complete and successfully integrate its acquisitions on an accretive basis, Nightingale's access to debt and capital facilities, including compliance with current debt arrangements; the existence of present and possible future government regulation; the significant competition that exists in the medical software industry; the early stage of Nightingale's business, and 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. Certain material factors or assumptions applied by management in making forward-looking statements, include without limitation, factors and assumptions regarding future trends in healthcare spending, economic conditions affecting Nightingale and North American economies; Nightingale's ability to continue to fund its business, rates of customer defaults, relationships with, and payments to lenders, 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.

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Sharmeen Arafat, Marketing Manager
Nightingale Informatix Corporation
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Kristen Dickson, Account Executive
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