MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vital, a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company and leading provider of advanced visualization and analysis solutions for healthcare providers, ranked number one for its Vitrea® Enterprise Suite (VES) software in the Advanced Visualization category of the "2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services" report released by the independent healthcare research firm.
"A core value at Vital is to serve our customers, particularly with solutions that provide easy access to the information needed to make critical decisions in patient care," said Erkan Akyuz, president at Vital. "We are pleased to receive this acknowledgement from the industry."
"Since 1998, KLAS has been committed to helping healthcare providers make decisions based on candid peer feedback," says Adam Gale, KLAS president. "Best in KLAS rankings mark those vendors who best keep their promises in their market segments for offering a combination of superior products, strong service, and high customer value. We hope these ratings continue to help providers find transparency from their vendors in making purchasing decisions."
Vitrea Enterprise Suite, Vital's signature software solution, provides physicians with advanced visualization tools, clinical applications and data management. VES's Web-based access integrates seamlessly with PACS and EMR systems.
KLAS works with thousands of hospitals and clinics to rate more than 750 products and services from over 200 vendors. KLAS data and reports represent the combined opinions of actual people from provider organizations comparing how their vendors, products and/or services performed when measured against the participant's objectives and expectations. KLAS findings are a unique compilation of candid opinions and are real measurements representing those individuals interviewed. Findings are not meant to be conclusive data for an entire client base. KLAS provides the findings as valuable data points to be used with other data points in the reader's overall analysis.
About KLAS
Independently owned KLAS conducts over 1,900 healthcare provider interviews per month with more than 4,500 hospitals and 3,000 clinics to rate over 900 products by 250 vendors. It publishes approximately more than 40 performance and perception reports each year. KLAS (www.KLASresearch.com) is headquartered in Orem, Utah.
About Vital
Vital, a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, is a leading provider of advanced visualization and analysis software for physicians and healthcare specialists. The company's software provides users productivity and communication tools to improve patient care that can be accessed throughout the enterprise anytime, anywhere via the Web. For more information, visit www.vitalimages.com.
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