Nightingale Completes the Sale of Its US Practice Management Business

Transaction strengthens Nightingale's balance sheet and positions Company to focus on driving growth in Canada and International markets

MARKHAM, ON, Oct. 13, 2015 /CNW/ - Nightingale Informatix Corporation ("Nightingale" or the "Company") (TSX-V: NGH), announced today that it has completed the sale of its US based Practice Management business, the "Business", to Pulse Systems, 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 $3 million of holdbacks.

The Business represented approximately 35% of Nightingale's revenue for its fiscal year 2015. The Balance of Nightingale's business will be in Canada and the International markets focused on Nightingale's flagship products V9 (Nightingale On Demand) and Nightingale V10. 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 the United States.

"With a stronger balance sheet and complete focus on our core markets, Nightingale can now dedicate its attention on the EMR business which has grown 17% and 23% in fiscal years 2015 and 2014 respectively. Our objective now is to improve on those growth rates and achieve profitability from recurring revenues in the short term," said Sam Chebib, President and CEO of Nightingale. "This transaction also aligns Nightingale's operating cost and debt service with the cash flows from its revenues, providing better predictability of our financial performance. We are now well positioned to capitalize on multiple large opportunities in the Canadian and International markets, to drive tangible growth."

Under the terms of the sale, Nightingale could receive a one-time additional payment of $1.75 million, if the Business meets certain financial targets by March 31, 2016.

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.

About Nightingale

For more than a decade, Nightingale (TSX-V: NGH) has been deliverig 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 uncomplicate 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. www.nightingalemd.com

Forward Looking Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" respecting the Company's financial position and the sale of assets of the Corporation 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: the ability of Nightingale to receive the additional payment from the sale of assets to Pulse; the ability of Nightingale to service the interest on its debt and to repay the principal on its debt; risks associated with obtaining the required approval of the Exchange and other approvals related to its debt; the ability of Nightingale to successfully complete the strategic or financial alternatives being considered; 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 successfully develop and market the V10 platform; 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.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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