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Unibased Solutions Again Earn Hightest Rankings In "Top 20:Year-End Best in KLAS" Report

Unibased Solutions Again Earn Hightest Rankings In "Top 20:Year-End Best in KLAS" Report

KLAS Enterprises, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm, published its annual “TOP 20: Year-End Best in KLAS” awards today reporting that Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) was positioned 1st as the “Best in KLAS” in two different market solution categories, including Enterprise Scheduling and Surgery Management based on confidential surveys of healthcare executives, managers and clinicians from over 4,500 hospitals and 2,500 clinics. Unibased also secured the #2 and #5 positions overall among the 400 healthcare information technology vendors considered beating out mega-firms such as GE, McKesson, Cerner, Siemens and others.

Chesterfield MO (PRWEB) December 17, 2004

KLAS Enterprises, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm, published its annual “TOP 20: Year-End Best in KLAS” awards today reporting that Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) was positioned 1st as the “Best in KLAS” in two different market solution categories, including Enterprise Scheduling and Surgery Management based on confidential surveys of healthcare executives, managers and clinicians from over 4,500 hospitals and 2,500 clinics. Unibased also secured the #2 and #5 positions overall among the 400 healthcare information technology vendors considered beating out mega-firms such as GE, McKesson, Cerner, Siemens and others.

KLAS Enterprises, founded in 1996, is the only research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare's information technology (HIT) vendors. To ensure a candid collection of performance data, KLAS uses a two-step approach, first collecting a series of product/vendor evaluations covering more than 40 performance areas and then conducting in-depth, confidential interviews covering 500 products. The TOP 20: Year-End Best in KLAS report reflects the summary of HIT product performance data collected over a 13-month period.

Unibased, the Scheduling Company, provides the complete alignment and monitoring of healthcare services and enterprise related resources in order to meet the coordinated agenda needs of physicians and patients. “The first contact with the patient is where effective care delivery begins. It continues through the visits, tests, and operative procedures that have been scheduled for the organized, efficient care of the patient as well as convenience to the physicians. Eliminating the manual processes and seamlessly connecting the resources, processes, and information with our solutions allows our clients to focus on patient care and revenue-generating activities“, said J. R. Digman, Vice President Field Technical Services of Unibased. “Our solutions can have significant, measurable impact on critical issues like patient safety, speed of diagnosis and treatment, and our customer’s bottom line - the rankings by our clients, who use our products every day, reinforce that fact.”

“We are pleased that our solutions have once again been recognized by KLAS Enterprises and our clients as the industry's leading enterprise scheduling and surgery management solutions," said Barry M. Rundquist, CEO. “These awards are further evidence of Unibased’s commitment to client satisfaction and to our continued development efforts to ensure that our products and services meet the evolving needs of today's healthcare organizations."

About Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (USA): 

Unibased and its products have maintained the highest rankings from the KLAS independent reporting for the last five years and their reputation for product quality, reliability, and supporting services has no equal in the HIT industry. Unibased markets various products which are open, scalable, integrated client/server and web enabled solutions, designed to meet the unique needs of sophisticated enterprise organizations. Unibased has major solution offerings in the HIT and air travel markets, providing real time production scheduling, human resource, security and financial systems. In the HIT industry, RMS is an integrated solution which schedules and tracks patient resource needs from pre-access through follow-up. RMS also monitors the effectiveness of clinical programs, financial productivity and capacity management. ORMS is an integrated module which addresses OR scheduling, surgeon preferences, suite utilization, materials management, clinical worker training and certification. RMS/ORMS results in significant improvements in physician and patient relations. Unibased products and services are available through direct sales, marketing partners, value added resellers and system integrators. Unibased is a private corporation founded in 1986, and is based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Visit Unibased on the web at www. unibased. com.

About KLASTM Enterprises

KLASTM is an organization established in 1996 to provide the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with unbiased factual information on HIT vendor performance. With an average of 25 years in HIT /healthcare experience KLASTM executives collect rankings and rating of HIT vendors and personally interview healthcare executives on their HIT vendor experience. KLASTM, in concert with hundreds of CIOs and other healthcare professionals, has created a dynamic database of information about the performance of Healthcare Information Technology Software Vendors. This extensive database contains vendor performance data representing over 4500+ healthcare facilities and 600 different products. For further information, contact KLAS Enterprises, LLC. at 801-226-5120 or on the web at http://www. healthcomputing. com (http://www. healthcomputing. com).

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