Orem, Utah-based KLAS released its annual rankings of the best-performing healthcare IT software and services vendors.
The 2009 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report includes performance ratings for nearly 900 software products and service offerings
2009 Best in KLAS vendors for software:
| Acute Care EMR Epic EpicCare Inpatient | Homecare McKesson Horizon Homecare |
| Ambulatory EMR (Over 100 Physicians) Epic EpicCare Ambulatory | Laboratory Siemens Novius Lab |
| Ambulatory EMR (26-100 Physicians) eClinicalWorks EMR | PACS GE Centricity PACS-IW |
| Ambulatory EMR (6-25 Physicians) Greenway Medical PrimeSuite Chart | Patient Accounting and Patient Management Epic Resolute Hospital Billing |
| Ambulatory EMR (2-5 Physicians) Epic EpicCare Inpatient | Pharmacy Epic Willow |
| Cardiology Digisonics DigiView | Practice Management (Over 100 Physicians) Epic Resolute/Prelude/Cadence |
| Community HIS McKesson Paragon | Practice Management (26-100 Physicians) McKesson Horizon Practice Plus |
| Decision Support – Business Eclipsys Sunrise EPSi Decision Support | Practice Management (6-25 Physicians) Greenway Medical PrimeSuite Practice |
| Document Management and Imaging MedPlus ChartMaxx | Practice Management (2-5 Physicians) athenahealth |
| Emergency Department Wellsoft EDIS | Radiology Epic Radiant |
| Enterprise Scheduling Unibased Systems Architecture RMS | Speech Recognition Nuance eScription |
| Financial/ERP McKesson Pathways Fin./Materials/HR Mgr | Surgery Management Unibased Systems Architecture ORMS |
2009 Best in KLAS vendors for professional services are:
| Application Hosting (CIS/ERP/HIS) Cerner | IT Outsourcing (Extensive) CareTech |
| Claims and Clearinghouse Services RealMed | Outsourced Transcription Webmedx |
| Clinical Implementation Principal ACS | Planning and Assessment Impact Advisors |
| Clinical Implementation Supportive Coastal Healthcare Consulting | Revenue Cycle Transformation Deloitte Consulting |
| Financial ERP Implementation CSC | Technical Services Hayes Management |
In addition to recognizing the Best in KLAS honorees, the 2009 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report also highlights the highest-performing vendors across all the market segments in which they have rated products or services – a group known as the Top 20. In the 2009 report, Epic is the top-ranked software vendor, with an overall performance score of 86.85 out of 100, followed by 3M and Ingenix. The top-rated services firm is Hayes Management (89.5), followed by Ingenix and Deloitte.
To purchase the full report, healthcare providers and vendors can visit www.KLASresearch.com/top_20.
