Irvine-based Quality Systems Inc. is buying a Texas maker of software for hospitals, doctors and medical laboratories.
Terms of the acquisition of Austin-based Opus Healthcare Solutions Inc. weren’t disclosed.
Quality Systems makes software and sells related computers and other gear that doctors and dentists use to manage their practices.
The company’s software creates electronic medical records and helps with appointments, billing, referrals, insurance claims, cash flow, collections and sharing of electronic medical records.
Quality Systems said it expects the Opus Healthcare acquisition to add to its profits in the 12 months through March 2011.
The company plans to combine Opus Healthcare with assets acquired last year from Laguna Hills-based Sphere Health Systems.
Quality bought software for managing patients, finance and human resources at hospitals from Sphere Health.
Opus Healthcare and Sphere’s software are becoming part of Quality’s dominant NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc. unit, which provides software for doctors.
The company said it plans to go after smaller hospitals with the combined software.
The acquisition is the latest in a series for Quality.
Last year, it also bought Hunt Valley, Md.-based Practice Management Partners Inc. and Healthcare Strategic Initiatives Inc. of St. Louis, to expand what it calls its revenue cycle business.
Revenue cycle uses software and computers for coding and documenting insurance claims to help doctors manage payments and cash flow.
For the three months through December, Quality reported sales of $75 million, up 14% from a year earlier.
The company earned $13.2 million, even with a year earlier.
Quality had a recent market value of $1.55 billion.
