Organization of Business	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Organization of Business [Abstract]
Organization of Business	Organization of Business Description of Business Quality Systems, Inc. ("QSI") and its wholly-owned subsidiaries operate as four divisions (each, a "Division") which are comprised of: (i) the QSI Dental Division, (ii) the NextGen Division, (iii) the Hospital Solutions Division (formerly Inpatient Solutions) and (iv) the RCM Services Division (formerly Practice Solutions). In fiscal year 2011, QSI opened a captive entity in India called Quality Systems India Healthcare Private Limited (“QSIH”) (collectively, with QSI and the four Divisions, the "Company"). The Company primarily derives revenue by developing and marketing healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices such as physician hospital organizations (“PHOs”) and management service organizations (“MSOs”), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools along with comprehensive systems implementation, maintenance and support and add on complementary services such as revenue cycle management (“RCM”) and electronic data interchange (“EDI”). The Company's systems and services provide its clients with the ability to redesign patient care and other workflow processes while improving productivity through the facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing its proprietary software in combination with third-party hardware and software solutions, the Company's products enable the integration of a variety of administrative and clinical information operations. The Company was founded with an early focus on providing information systems to dental group practices. This focus area would later become the QSI Dental Division. In the mid-1980’s, the Company capitalized on the increasing focus on medical cost containment and further expanded its information processing systems to serve the ambulatory market. In the mid-1990’s, the Company made two acquisitions that accelerated its penetration of the ambulatory market and formed the basis for the NextGen Division. In the last few years, the Company acquired several companies as part of its strategy to enhance its EDI and RCM services capabilities as well as expand into the small and specialty hospital market. More recently, the Company acquired Mirth Corporation ("Mirth"), which operates under the NextGen Division and is expected to enhance the Company's current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Today, the Company serves the dental, ambulatory, hospital and RCM services markets through its QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division, Hospital Solutions Division and RCM Services Division. The QSI Dental Division, co-located with the Corporate Headquarters in Irvine, California, currently focuses on developing, marketing and supporting software suites sold to dental organizations located throughout the US. The NextGen Division, with headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania and a significant location in Atlanta, Georgia, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory and dental provider organizations. The Hospital Solutions Division, with its primary location in Austin, Texas, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for rural and community hospitals. The RCM Services Division, with locations in St. Louis, Missouri, North Canton, Ohio, South Jordan, Utah and Hunt Valley, Maryland, focuses primarily on providing physician practices with RCM services, primarily billing and collection services for medical practices. This Division combines a web-delivered Software as a Service ("SaaS") model and the NextGen® Practice Management ("PM") software platform to execute its service offerings. In January 2011, QSIH was formed in Bangalore, India to function as our India-based captive to offshore technology application development and business processing services. The Divisions have historically operated as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development, implementation and support teams and branding. However, there are a growing number of customers who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of the Divisions. In an effort to encourage this cross selling of its products and services between Divisions, the Company is in the process of further integrating its ambulatory and hospital products to provide a more robust and comprehensive platform to offer its customers. The Divisions also share the resources of the Company's “corporate office,” which includes a variety of accounting and other administrative functions. Acquisitions On September 9, 2013, the Company acquired Mirth, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. Operating results associated with Mirth products and services are included in the NextGen Division. The acquisition of Mirth will enhance the Company's current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Mirth offers a wide variety of products and services utilized by both users of Mirth open code technology as well as a large base of domestic and international paying customers. Stock Split On July 27, 2011, the Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of the Company's common stock and a proportional increase in the number of our common shares authorized from 50 million to 100 million. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on October 6, 2011 received one additional share for every outstanding share held on the record date. The additional shares were distributed October 26, 2011 and trading began on a split-adjusted basis on October 27, 2011. All share and per share amounts in this Annual Report on Form 10-K have been restated for all periods presented to reflect the two-for-one split of our common stock.

Organization of Business

Description of Business

Quality Systems, Inc. ("QSI") and its wholly-owned subsidiaries operate as four divisions (each, a "Division") which are comprised of: (i) the QSI Dental Division, (ii) the NextGen Division, (iii) the Hospital Solutions Division (formerly Inpatient Solutions) and (iv) the RCM Services Division (formerly Practice Solutions). In fiscal year 2011, QSI opened a captive entity in India called Quality Systems India Healthcare Private Limited (“QSIH”) (collectively, with QSI and the four Divisions, the "Company"). The Company primarily derives revenue by developing and marketing healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices such as physician hospital organizations (“PHOs”) and management service organizations (“MSOs”), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools along with comprehensive systems implementation, maintenance and support and add on complementary services such as revenue cycle management (“RCM”) and electronic data interchange (“EDI”). The Company's systems and services provide its clients with the ability to redesign patient care and other workflow processes while improving productivity through the facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing its proprietary software in combination with third-party hardware and software solutions, the Company's products enable the integration of a variety of administrative and clinical information operations.

The Company was founded with an early focus on providing information systems to dental group practices. This focus area would later become the QSI Dental Division. In the mid-1980’s, the Company capitalized on the increasing focus on medical cost containment and further expanded its information processing systems to serve the ambulatory market. In the mid-1990’s, the Company made two acquisitions that accelerated its penetration of the ambulatory market and formed the basis for the NextGen Division. In the last few years, the Company acquired several companies as part of its strategy to enhance its EDI and RCM services capabilities as well as expand into the small and specialty hospital market. More recently, the Company acquired Mirth Corporation ("Mirth"), which operates under the NextGen Division and is expected to enhance the Company's current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Today, the Company serves the dental, ambulatory, hospital and RCM services markets through its QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division, Hospital Solutions Division and RCM Services Division.

The QSI Dental Division, co-located with the Corporate Headquarters in Irvine, California, currently focuses on developing, marketing and supporting software suites sold to dental organizations located throughout the US.

The NextGen Division, with headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania and a significant location in Atlanta, Georgia, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory and dental provider organizations.

The Hospital Solutions Division, with its primary location in Austin, Texas, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for rural and community hospitals.

The RCM Services Division, with locations in St. Louis, Missouri, North Canton, Ohio, South Jordan, Utah and Hunt Valley, Maryland, focuses primarily on providing physician practices with RCM services, primarily billing and collection services for medical practices. This Division combines a web-delivered Software as a Service ("SaaS") model and the NextGen® Practice Management ("PM") software platform to execute its service offerings.

In January 2011, QSIH was formed in Bangalore, India to function as our India-based captive to offshore technology application development and business processing services.

The Divisions have historically operated as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development, implementation and support teams and branding. However, there are a growing number of customers who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of the Divisions. In an effort to encourage this cross selling of its products and services between Divisions, the Company is in the process of further integrating its ambulatory and hospital products to provide a more robust and comprehensive platform to offer its customers. The Divisions also share the resources of the Company's “corporate office,” which includes a variety of accounting and other administrative functions.

Acquisitions

On September 9, 2013, the Company acquired Mirth, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. Operating results associated with Mirth products and services are included in the NextGen Division. The acquisition of Mirth will enhance the Company's current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Mirth offers a wide variety of products and services utilized by both users of Mirth open code technology as well as a large base of domestic and international paying customers.

Stock Split

On July 27, 2011, the Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of the Company's common stock and a proportional increase in the number of our common shares authorized from 50 million to 100 million. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on October 6, 2011 received one additional share for every outstanding share held on the record date. The additional shares were distributed October 26, 2011 and trading began on a split-adjusted basis on October 27, 2011. All share and per share amounts in this Annual Report on Form 10-K have been restated for all periods presented to reflect the two-for-one split of our common stock.