Irvine-based Quality Systems Inc. named Steven T. Plochocki as its new President and Chief Executive Officer on Tuesday.

Plochocki, 56 has been on Quality systems’ board of directors since 2004 and a longtime local healthcare executive. He replaces the former CEO Lou Silverman. Silverman has been the Quality systems’ CEO since 2000.

Plochocki will take over as CEO on Saturday. He is the former chairman and CEO of air medical services company Omniflight Helicopters Inc. and he has also worked at health care billing company Centratex. Plochocki was also CEO of Lake Forest-based medical scanning provider InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. and was president and chief operating officer of Lake Forest-based home healthcare provider Apria Healthcare Group Inc.

Quality systems Inc. is a medical records and billing software maker based in Irvine. The company makes software that doctors and dentists use to manage their practices.

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