Nightingale Informatix Corporation Signs EMR Agreement with Six Nations Health Services

• Company selected by the largest First Nations group in Canada, to replace legacy EMR with Nightingale On Demand EMR
• Nightingale On Demand EMR to be deployed to 150 First Nations Health Services Providers
• Company will manage migration of existing client and clinical data through its Data Migration Centre of Excellence

MARKHAM, ON, July 25, 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 that it has signed a three-year agreement with Six Nations Health Services to provide its leading EMR and practice management solution, Nightingale On Demand (NOD), to healthcare providers practicing within the Six Nations Health Services department of the Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council.

"Over the past 12 months, Nightingale has strengthened its foothold as the EMR partner of choice for community-based health organizations across Canada," said Sam Chebib, President and CEO of Nightingale. "This agreement with Six Nations builds directly on our earlier success with the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC). We are making great progress in the emerging Aboriginal market segment through our customized workflow. Our partnership with Six Nations is a testament to the leadership position Nightingale has achieved in the specialized community health and public health markets."

This is the largest single Aboriginal Healthcare agreement to date for Nightingale. It will cover 150 providers who provide comprehensive and diverse health services to clients at the Six Nations Health Services primary site in Ohsweken, Ontario and across the Six Nations territory. Deployment is expected to be completed by December 2012. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.

"Our Community Health Services providers have been using EMR since 2007; however, the former solution did not meet our clients' specific medical, cultural and reporting needs," said Ruby Miller, Director, Six Nations Health Services. "Not only does Nightingale provide a more flexible EMR solution, but the Nightingale team demonstrated a commitment to continue to develop a deep understanding of our cultural needs as a result of their work with other Aboriginal Health Access Centres."

Adoption of EMR by community-based centres is in the early stages. Nightingale's track record of successful EMR deployments, technology leadership, demonstrated experience in multiple jurisdictions, as well as the comprehensive functionality of Nightingale On Demand positions the Company to become the leading EMR provider in this sector. Moreover, as a true bilingual EMR service provider, Nightingale is positioned to accelerate market penetration in regions where French is a requirement.

As a competitive EMR replacement agreement with Six Nations Heath Services, Nightingale will also be responsible for migrating original client data from the existing databases. The Company will manage the process through its Data Migration Centre of Excellence (DMCE).

"Protecting the integrity of data quality through the data migration process is an important priority of this EMR deployment process," Mr. Chebib continued. "We have successfully managed hundreds of successful data migrations and our team that forms the Company's Data Migration Centre of Excellence understands the complexities of patient record systems, data and workflows."

Nightingale's Data Management Centre of Excellence (DMCE) includes a set of processes, tools and resources designed to help health care organizations extract data from their legacy EMR applications and populate the data into Nightingale on Demand EMR in a useful format. Migrating data is complicated and time consuming; the tools built by Nightingale ensure that this data is of the highest quality and will be readily available and useable in the Nightingale On Demand EMR solution.

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 and transcription, 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

About Six Nations Health Services

Mission Statement
Six Nations Health Services is dedicated to building a healthy O gweh ό:weh (original people) community, where each individual is respected, valued, and provided with continued excellence in health care.

Vision Statement
Six Nations Health Services will continue to lead in the provision of advanced, wholistic community health care.

Six Nations Health Services is one of thirteen departments operated by the Six Nations Elected Council. With almost 300 employees this department offers various comprehensive health services to approximately 14,000 residents. With a total band membership of 24,744 numerous non-residents return home to access services.

Six Nations of the Grand River community is located 25 km southwest of the city of Hamilton, ON and is between the cities of Brantford, Caledonia and Hagersville.

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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SOURCE: Nightingale Informatix Corporation

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For further information about Six Nations Health Services, contact 

Karen Best, Six Nations Council
Communications Officer
519-445-2201
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