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10/19/2000 Seattle, WA - Practice Partner, a leader in the development and marketing of innovative medical practice management software, today announced its inclusion in two prestigious rankings that recognize the company's rapid growth. Practice Partner made the Puget Sound's Business Journal's recent listing of the 100 fastest-growing privately-owned companies in Washington state. It also was included in the Deloitte & Touche Fast-50 program for Washington State, a ranking of the state's 50 fastest-growing technology companies.
Practice Partner was 68th in the Puget Sound Business Journal's annual listing of privately-owned companies with a 71.42% growth in revenues between 1997 and 1999 (three-year period). Practice Partner was 40th in the Deloitte & Touche Fast-50, with a 218.04% revenue growth between 1995 and 1999 (five year period).
"Making Deloitte & Touche's list of Fast 50 and the Puget Sound Business Journal's top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies of Washington is both an honor and testament to the strength of Practice Partner," says Andrew Ury, M.D., founder and president of Practice Partner "When a company's financial success mirrors its achievements in developing quality products, we know we're making the right decisions."
"In an era where technology companies come and go like shooting stars, making the Deloitte & Touche 'Fast 50' is a testament to a company's leadership and its ability to not only have the right solution for that moment in time, but also the vision that allows growth over five years," says Larry Hile, partner, Deloitte & Touche. "Practice Partner has proven that they have the right stuff to succeed, and we at Deloitte & Touche salute its accomplishments."
Seattle-based Practice Partner is a leader in the development and marketing of innovative Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management products for medical offices and large health care enterprises. Practice Partner, founded in 1983 by Dr. Andrew Ury to provide comprehensive software solutions for office-based physicians, is one of the pioneers in electronic medical records software. More than 1200 offices use Practice Partner software, and more than 700 of them use Practice Partner Patient Records. With over a decade of experience with the EMR (Practice Partner released its first version of Practice Partner Patient Records in 1987), Practice Partner has created software products that are finely honed to the real world needs of physicians, nurses, and office professionals.
The Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ) is one of the leading weekly business publications in the Northwest. Owned by American City Business Journals Inc., the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, the PSBJ covers a wide range of issues that affect Seattle and the Northwest region at large.
Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services through 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel. Known as an employer of choice for its innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for three consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche is part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services firms, with more than 90,000 people in over 130 countries. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.us.deloitte.com.
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