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KLAS Enterprises LLC, an Orem, Utah-based health information technology vendor research firm, has bestowed its year-end 2006 Best in KLAS Awards.

The firm surveys and interviews thousands of executives at provider organizations to score vendor products based on customer satisfaction. Following is the winning product and vendor in each category:

General Market Solutions

*Acute care CDR, orders and charting: EpicCare Inpatient from Epic Systems Corp.

* Acute care registration/scheduling/patient accounting: Affinity Financials from QuadraMed Corp.

* Picture archiving and communication systems: Dominator from DR Systems Inc.

* Cardiology PACS: Calysto from the Witt Biomedical unit of Philips Medical Systems.

* Cardiology reporting and documentation: Horizon Cardiology Reporting from McKesson Corp.

* Business decision support: EPSi Decision Support from Enterprise Performance Systems Inc.

* Document Management and Imaging: ChartMaxx from MedPlus Inc.

* Emergency department systems: ICMS from Wellsoft Corp.

* Enterprise Scheduling: RMS from Unibased Systems Architecture.

* Financial enterprise resource planning: McKesson PW Financial/Materials Management from McKesson Corp.

* Laboratory: Misys Lab from Misys Healthcare Systems.

* Pharmacy: Centricity Pharmacy from GE Healthcare.

* Radiology: Novius Radiology from Siemens Medical Solutions.

* Surgery management: ORMS from Unibased Systems Architecture.

* Transcription and back-end speech recognition: EditScript from eScription Inc.

Community Hospitals

* Community hospital information system: Paragon from McKesson Corp.

* Community clinical ancillary solutions: Horizon Medical Imaging from McKesson Corp.

Physician Practice Solutions

* Ambulatory billing and scheduling (more than 100 physicians): Resolute/Prelude/Cadence from Epic Systems Corp.

* Ambulatory billing and scheduling (26 to 100 physicians): Centricity Group Management (IDX Groupcast) from GE Healthcare.

* Ambulatory billing and scheduling (six to 25 physicians): athenahealth Inc.

* Ambulatory billing and scheduling (one to five physicians): eClinicalWorks PM from eClinicalWorks Inc.

* Ambulatory electronic medical records (more than 25 physicians): EpicCare Ambulatory from Epic Systems Corp.

* Ambulatory electronic medical records (six to 25 physicians): PrimeSuite Chart from Greenway Medical Technologies Inc.

* Ambulatory electronic medical records (one to five physicians): eClinicalWorks EMR from eClinicalWorks Inc.

Other Solutions

* Home care: BeyondNow HomeWorks/Road Notes from Cerner Corp.

Professional Services

* Clinical implementation (principal): Healthlink unit of IBM Corp.

* Clinical implementation (supportive): Coastal Healthcare Consulting.

* Financial Implementation (principal): Rapidigm unit of Fujitsu Consulting.

* I.T. Outsourcing (extensive): Eclipsys Corp.

* Outsourced transcription: Focus Informatics Inc.

* Planning and assessment: Hayes Management Consulting.

* Revenue cycle consulting--transformation: Stockamp & Associates Inc.

* Technical consulting: Accenx Technologies

Medical Equipment

* Computed Radiography: DirectView CR 975 from Eastman Kodak Co.

* Computed Tomography: Aquilion 64-slice CT from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.

* Magnetic Resonance: Vantage 1.5T from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc.

KLAS Enterprises also recognized more han 30 other products that were category leaders but were not formally given “Best in KLAS” status. The full list and ordering information for the full report is available at healthcomputing.com.