SHAWNEE, Kan., Dec. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Perceptive Software, creator of ImageNow(r) enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software, today announced that KLAS' "2007: Top 20 Year-End Best in KLAS Awards" has named ImageNow "Best in KLAS" in document management and imaging in the healthcare industry.
ImageNow was ranked the No. 1 document management and imaging vendor and No. 7 overall healthcare software product out of 93 that were ranked. The KLAS Vendor Relationship Evaluation is comprised of questions that cover everything from contracting and sales to implementation, services and upgrades.
"Being named 'Best in KLAS' is a significant milestone for the healthcare team at Perceptive Software," said Scott Coons, Perceptive Software President and CEO. "This award validates that we consistently meet or exceed the expectations of our healthcare customers and confirms our dedication to making ImageNow the best document management solution for the healthcare industry."
KLAS is a research and consulting firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of information technology vendors in the healthcare field. The "Best in KLAS" Award is given annually to vendors whose products score the highest in its designated category and also meets all "Best in KLAS" requirements. The "Top 20" ranking is reserved for all products that fall into the 14 most rated market segments. This subset of products is defined as those having broad operational impact and includes the products most commonly rated by industry chief information officers.
About KLAS
Founded in 1996, KLAS is a research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare information technology (HIT), professional services, and medical equipment vendors and products. KLAS strives to improve HIT delivery by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of consultants, investors, vendors, and healthcare provider partners. KLAS, in concert with thousands of healthcare executives and professionals, has created a dynamic database of HIT evaluations and opinions of healthcare executives, managers, and clinicians from over 4,500 hospitals and 3,000 clinics are represented in the reports, 300+ software vendors, 500+ software products and 35 service firms. The Top 20 Report reflects the summary of HIT product performance data collection over a 13-month period. For further information, contact KLAS at 801-226-5120 or on the Web at www.healthcomputing.com.
About Perceptive Software
Since 1995 Perceptive Software, Inc. has built enterprise content management software, including document management, document imaging and workflow solutions, to help organizations efficiently capture and organize virtually any document, then easily retrieve a precise page at the moment it's needed. More than 60,000 users in 22 countries rely on the ImageNow product suite to simplify their business processes. In the healthcare industry, ImageNow is at work in more than 500 healthcare organizations and 800 individual hospitals throughout North America.
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