Healthcare software ranked - Awards - KLAS Enterprises report - Brief Article

Health Management Technology, Feb, 2002

KLAS Enterprises, a healthcare research and consulting firm based in Draper, UT, has released its 2001 HIT Performers, the annual ranking of healthcare software applications based on the reports of more than 1,000 CIOs, CFOs and other executives representing 3,500 healthcare facilities that use the software. KLAS named Epic's Cadence software as the best overall HIT Performer as well as the top enterprise scheduling solution.

Other categories and the top-ranked applications (in parentheses) include:

* Acute Care Clinical Data Repository (3M Care Innovation);

* Acute Care Registration/Scheduling (QuadraMed Affinity);

* Acute Care Ordering & Charting (Eclipsys SCM);

* Ambulatory Billing (LSS Practice Management);

* Ambulatory Clinical (Epic's EpicCare);

* EMPI (Madison's Aligndex);

* Financial Decision Support (HMS' HCm/Alliance);

* General Financial (MediClick);

* Interface Engines (SeeBeyond's e*Gate);

* Laboratory Information Systems (Sunquest);

* OR Scheduling (iPath);

* Pharmacy Information Systems (PDS PharmPro);

* Picture Archiving and Communication System (DR Systems);

* Radiology Information Systems (IDX Corp.);

For more information, visit the KLAS website, www.healthcarecomputing.com.