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Netsmart Now the Only Provider to Offer Practice Management and Clinical Software Solutions for All Sizes and Types of Mental Health Care Providers

GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and human services organizations, today announced it acquired the Therapist Helper product suite and operations from Nightingale VantageMed Corporation, a subsidiary of Nightingale Informatix Corporation (TSX-V: NGH), a Markham, Ontario-based provider of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services. Therapist Helper offices and staff, located in Woburn, Mass., will remain in place after the completion of the acquisition.

KLAS award-winning Therapist Helper software is a practice management and clinical system for individual and small group private practice psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, therapists and social workers. The acquisition brings the more than 17,000 customers that have purchased Therapist Helper into the Netsmart customer family, further expanding the number of providers that use Netsmart software and creating a greater opportunity to share clinical information among all points of care to achieve true Connected Care.

"We're pleased to now be the technology partner to the entire mental healthcare spectrum, from individual private practice and small group providers to community mental health centers and counties to comprehensive state systems," said James L. Conway, chief executive officer, Netsmart Technologies. "Therapist Helper has a long tradition of providing high quality support for its thousands of customers. We are fully committed to continuing that high level of customer support as we welcome them into the Netsmart family."

The acquisition of Therapist Helper by Netsmart Technologies benefits both current Netsmart customers and Therapist Helper customers.

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