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QSSI Establishes a Health IT Council

Columbia, MD — October 30, 2009 – QSSI is pleased to announce it has formally established a Health IT Council to serve as a guiding body for QSSI’s extensive healthcare business and its anticipated future growth. The council members are all practicing physicians who bring significant experience in Health IT (HIT) Politics, Health Information Exchange (HIE) management, Hospital Administration, as well as Emergency Medicine and Independent Providers. The council is served by four distinguished doctors: Dr. Ram Peruvemba is a partner in First Colonies Anesthesia Associates (FCAA) as well as President and founder of Pain Management Specialists (PMS). Dr. Peruvemba has been extensively involved in the implementation of HIT in both the Adventist Health Care system as well for PMS; Dr. Sunil Madan is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician with over ten years of experience in patient care, operations, reimbursement, quality, regulatory affairs, and health information technology. Dr. Madan currently serves as the Medical Director of the emergency department at one of the nation’s largest tertiary community teaching hospitals; Dr. Shobhit Arora, MD, MMM, FACEP is President of Doctors Emergency Physicians, a group of 25 physicians and mid-level providers who specialize in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Arora is integrally involved with the medical leadership of the hospital, sitting on both the Medical Executive and Quality Management Committees; and Dr. Gaurov Dayal serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Adventist HealthCare. Dr. Dayal provides leadership to the system’s medical informatics, quality and patient safety initiatives and the Adventist HealthCare health insurance plan.

The mission of the council is threefold: (1) Provide support, education, and guidance to QSSI to remain an effective and meaningful resource to support HIT standards initiatives, (2) Educate QSSI healthcare stakeholders on the pain points in the provider communit y when dealing with HIT and government mandates, and (3) Support QSSI technical solution stakeholders as they continue to pursue innovative and leading edge solutions to increasingly complex healthcare and privacy concerns.

The QSSI Health IT Council plays an active part in supporting QSSI’s current HIT offerings at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as defining new offerings that fulfill the requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical (HITECH) Act.

In its first quarter, the Health IT Council has already set into motion the QSSI Health IT Solution Set consisting of: the QSSI PHIM (Patient Health Information Manager) – a set of custom modules, integration tools and services that accelerates EMR/PHR adoption compliant with HITECH meaningful use; a Secure and scalable solution for healthcare entities to connect to the NHIN; and Professional services to aid Eligible Professionals and Eligible Institutions to comply with HITECH meaningful use.

About QSSI

Founded in 1997, QSSI is a rapidly growing firm with a broad set of Information Technology solution offerings. A SEI CMMI® Maturity Level 3 rated firm, QSSI focuses on Enterprise Software Development, Security Services and Critical IT Infrastructure solutions as our core competencies. QSSI has successfully performed on over 200 Federal Contracts in the Civilian market and has over 200 IT professionals. QSSI is only among a handful of businesses that are GSA approved to provide HSPD-12 services to the Federal Government on SIN 132-62. We are also a GSA Schedule 70 holder - #GS-35F-0308L and GSA STARS awardee – #GS- 06F-0148Z

For additional information, please contact:

Bikram Bakshi, President & CEO

301-977-7884, ext 208

bbakshi@qssinc.com