KLAS Celebrates 15 Years of Best in KLAS with Healthcare VIPs

NEW ORLEANS, LA, March 06, 2013

KLAS Enterprises celebrated 15 years of working with providers and vendors last night with their annual Best in KLAS awards reception in New Orleans. The event was attended by prominent healthcare leaders who came to support KLAS' ongoing effort to improve healthcare transparency.

The speakers for the evening included Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, Peter Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors, and keynote speaker Russell Branzell, CEO of Colorado Health Medical Group. Branzell focused most of his comments on praising KLAS for being the "go-to source for healthcare technology information."

"The Best in KLAS awards reception is the highlight of our year," said Adam Gale, president of KLAS. "Being able to honor vendors that have aligned with providers to improve healthcare is truly the most gratifying thing we do."

In attendance were the who's who of healthcare, including healthcare providers, members of the press, and executives from the following companies:

- athenahealth
- CareTech Solutions
- Cerner
- Cisco
- Cymetrix
- Digisonics
- Dimensional Insight
- Dolbey
- DR Systems
- Elekta
-Epic
- Homecare Homebase
- Huron Consulting
- Impact Advisors
- McKesson
- Navicure
- Navin, Haffty & Associates
- Oracle
- Orchestrate Healthcare
- Perceptive Software
- Precyse
- Siemens
- StatRad
- Unibased
- Wellsoft
- Xerox

The Best in KLAS awards are awarded annually based upon KLAS' more than 20,000 yearly interviews with providers to determine the performance of hundreds of software and professional services firms and their offerings. The research enables healthcare providers to make more-informed technology decisions and vendors to strive for excellence. The Best in KLAS report ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in nearly 100 market segments, including acute care EMR, ambulatory EMR, emergency department information systems, financial/ERP, clinical implementation, and IT outsourcing, among others.

For detailed information from 2012 Best in KLAS Awards on each vendor's performance, visit KLAS online at www.KLASresearch.com/reports. The report is available to healthcare providers and vendors Providers receive a significant discount off the standard retail price or can receive a complimentary summary report in exchange for a survey of one of their current suppliers.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving supplier performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.