Nightingale Informatix sells its U.S. business

MARKHAM, Ont. – Nightingale Informatix Corp. has announced the sale of its U.S.-based Practice Management business to Pulse Systems, Inc., a leading provider of Practice Management and EHR software and Revenue Cycle Management services in the United States.

Gross proceeds from the sale are $11 million, less working capital adjustments. The sale includes the assets of Nightingale’s Medrium, RidgeMark, SecureConnect and Northern Health product lines.

The U.S. business represented approximately 35% of Nightingale’s revenue for its fiscal year 2015. Nightingale will maintain the rights to develop, sell, and deploy its clearinghouse and claims hub technology (known as SecureConnect) in Canada and all international markets outside of the United States.

Similarly, Pulse, under a license agreement, will have the right to enhance and further develop, sublicense and sell Nightingale V10 in the United States. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.

This transaction was the result of the company’s previously announced initiative to evaluate its strategic alternatives.

“This transaction strengthens our balance sheet and allows us to focus on deploying our suite of leading-edge technologies, including V10 and the SecureConnect clearinghouse, into the Canadian market and international markets. We are sharpening our focus on the markets where we see substantial opportunity and where we want to continue to lead,” said Sam Chebib (pictured), president and CEO of Nightingale.

“We will be using a portion of the proceeds to pay down certain debt and the balance for working capital and operations. Nightingale is now well positioned to focus its energy on capitalizing on multiple large opportunities in the Canadian and International markets.”

Under terms of the sale, Nightingale will receive gross proceeds of $11.0 million, less $3.0 million of holdbacks. In addition, if the U.S. business meets certain financial targets within the first six months post-closing, Nightingale would also receive a one-time additional payment of $1.75 million.

In conjunction with the sale, Nightingale entered into a mutual non-competition agreement with Pulse for a period of three years, whereby Nightingale would not compete in the United States market, while Pulse would not compete in Canada.

Jeff Burton, Pulse Systems president and CEO stated, “We are excited about this acquisition and the strength of the healthcare IT professionals that will be joining the Pulse team upon closing, along with the clients they serve.” Following the closing, the Pulse focus with its new U.S. clients will be to upgrade and advance each medical organization into the growing Pulse offering of state-of-the-art technology and service solutions. These solutions enable each medical organization to leverage the power and simplicity of Pulse’s suite of fully integrated proprietary products offered in both client server and cloud environments.

This transaction is subject to TSX.V approval and other customary closing conditions.

About Pulse
Pulse provides certified, integrated, electronic healthcare management systems to thousands of providers across more than 40 specialties nationwide. Pulse’s award-winning, interoperable technology platform includes easy-to-use, cost-efficient complete EHR, practice management, e-prescribing, billing and collections, and other revenue cycle management solutions. Pulse is committed to helping our physician partners gain greater workflow efficiencies, reduce costs and achieve Meaningful Use incentives – all supported by our best-in-class client support, training and implementation services. Pulse is part of the Cegedim Healthcare Software division, owned and operated by Cegedim, a global healthcare technology company. To learn more or to request a demonstration of Pulse’s solutions, please visit us at www.pulseinc.com or call 1.800.444.0882

About Nightingale
For more than a decade, Nightingale has been delivering innovative cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR), Practice Management and Claims Clearing House solutions to healthcare organizations across the United States and Canada. Our goal is to un-complicate the day-to-day challenges of healthcare providers. We achieve this by creating software that is truly intuitive – minimizing training and maximizing adoption. We believe so strongly in building easy-to-use software that we structured our entire product team around user-centric design. Our clients are benefiting from this focus through a well-supported and robust solution that presents a holistic view of a person’s well-being in a simple, clean interface, so that the best health decisions can be made. Nightingale – One Patient. One Record. Please visit www.nightingalemd.com.