KLAS picks top IT vendors of 2011

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KLAS published its “2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services” report, an annual report ranking the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers.

In the 2011 KLAS report, Epic was the top-ranked overall software vendor with an 87.1 out of 100. MaxIT Healthcare garnered top ratings for professional services, scoring an 88.7.

According to the Orem, Utah-based market researcher, the best in vendors for software included:

  • Acute Care EMR – Epic EpicCare Inpatient EMR
  • Ambulatory EMR (over 75 physicians) – Epic EpicCare Ambulatory EMR
  • Ambulatory EMR (11-75 physicians) – athenahealth athenaClinicals
  • Ambulatory EMR (1-10 physicians) – Amazing Charts
  • Business Intelligence/Reporting – Dimensional Insight The Diver Solution
  • Cardiology – Digisonics DigiView
  • Community HIS – McKesson Paragon
  • Document Management and Imaging – MedPlus/Quest Diagnostics ChartMaxx
  • Enterprise Scheduling – Unibased USA RMS
  • Financial/ERP – Oracle People/Soft Enterprise
  • Homecare – Homecare Homebase
  • Laboratory – Siemens Novius Lab
  • Oncology – Elekta MOSAIQ
  • PACS – DR Systems Unity PACS
  • Patient Accounting and Patient Management – Epic Resolute Hospital Billing
  • Pharmacy – Epic Willow
  • Radiology – Epic Radiant
  • Speech Recognition – Nuance eScription
  • Surgery Management – Epic OpTime

The 2011 best in vendors for services included:
  • Application Hosting – Cerner
  • Claims and Clearinghouse Services – ZirMed
  • Clinical Implementation Principal – Impact Advisors
  • Financial ERP Implementation – ACS
  • IT Outsourcing – CareTech Solutions
  • Revenue Cycle Transformation – PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Technical Services – Orchestrate Healthcare
  • Teleradiology Services – Teleradiology Solutions

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