CHICAGO, Dec. 29, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KLAS Enterprises, LLC. (KLAS), an organization that helps healthcare providers make informed technology decisions by offering accurate, honest, and impartial vendor performance information, ranked Initiate Patient(tm) (formerly know as Initiate Identity Hub(r)) as the Category Leader in Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) software in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report.
According to the report, this recognition signifies leadership in working with customers to resolve issues and match expectations to reality. A category leader designation is reserved for vendor products and firms that lead select markets in the annual year-end report.
Initiate Systems supports more than 100 healthcare organizations in the highly accurate sharing of patient records which helps organizations improve services at the point of care, increase operational efficiencies and enable interoperability among applications contributing to successful health information exchange.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS' mission is to improve delivery, by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of our healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors. Working together with executives from over 4500 hospitals and over 2500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics, which provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, and medical equipment vendors. For more information, go to www.klasresearch.com.
About Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems, Inc. enables organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Its master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and Toronto, London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.InitiateSystems.com.
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