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Impact Advisors Recognized by KLAS as Best Overall IT Services Firm
Firm earns number one overall distinction three consecutive years
Chicago, IL – February 3, 2015 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, has received 2014 Best in KLAS distinctions for the seventh consecutive year. Impact Advisors is ranked in the 2014 Best in KLAS Software and Services report as the Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm and Clinical Implementation – Principal. The firm will be recognized April 12, 2015 at the Best in KLAS Awards Ceremony at the HIMSS conference in Chicago, Illinois. Impact Advisors has received the Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm for three consecutive years.
“We are humbled to once again be ranked Best in KLAS as it is validation that we are achieving our goal of providing a wide breadth and depth of exceptional quality, value, and impactful results to our clients,” said Peter Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “This distinction is meaningful because it is our client base affirming the value they derive from our firm. This value is much in part a result of the dedication and strength of our Associates.”
The Best in KLAS Overall Services Firm ranking is reserved for those firms that have a minimum of three separate IT services that meet the minimum “KLAS Konfidence” level in three separate market segments. Impact Advisors received above average or well above average rankings in all six ranking categories. Impact Advisors is represented as Number One in the graph below.
Client Feedback Categories – Impact Advisors represented as Number One.
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The Clinical Implementation – Principal category is defined by KLAS as, “Engagements in which a professional services firm (PSF) assisted a provider in implementing inpatient EMR, ambulatory EMR (25+ physician practices only), ED, OR, or pharmacy applications by providing guidance, expertise, tools, methodology, and resources. Rated PSFs played a major role in completing a measurable portion of the work with specific deliverables associated with the engagements.” Impact Advisors received the highest overall score of 93.5, an aggregate score taken from 25 separate categories.
Impact Advisors’ Rankings in KLAS Key Performance Categories
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KLAS independently monitors vendor performance through the active participation of thousands of healthcare organizations. KLAS uses a stringent methodology to ensure all data and ratings are accurate, honest and impartial.
The findings from KLAS are supported by feedback from Impact Advisors’ clients. A Director in May of 2014 reports, “The principal leadership has been exceptional in their technical, functional, and operational skills…The resources [Associates] are knowledgeable about the industry and the product, and they have experience with operational and workflow issues. They have great skill sets and are able to communicate and collaborate well with a variety of staff members and leaders across our organization. Everyone I come in contact with from Impact Advisors is extremely talented. I would say Impact Advisors is superior in their quality.”*
* Selected commentaries may not represent the whole of provider sentiment related to this product or service. Visit KLASresearch.com for a complete view.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving supplier performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.About Impact Advisors
Impact Advisors, a distinguished healthcare information technology consulting firm, improves its clients’ healthcare delivery through technology. As a trusted healthcare leader, the firm helps hospitals and health systems maximize clinical and operational performance with its Best in KLAS® strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Since its inception, Impact Advisors has consulted to more than 140 hospitals and health systems nationally and internationally. The firm has earned a number of industry and workplace quality awards including Best in KLAS® for seven consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty and Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.###
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ZynxCare Named Top Performer in the 2014 Best in KLAS Report Clinical Decision Support Care Plans Category
Los Angeles, CA – February 2, 2015 — The results are in: ZynxCare has been named the KLAS Category Leader in the 2014 Best in KLAS Report: Software and Services Clinical Decision Support Care Plan market segment released January 29, 2015.
ZynxCare received an overall score of 84.5, the highest in this product category.1 The ranking is based exclusively on customer feedback in the areas of sales and contracting, implementation and training, functionality and upgrades, and general performance.
As the No. 1 solution in this category, ZynxCare provides actionable evidence-based plans of care that enable providers to strategically coordinate patient- and family-focused care, reduce care disparities, and prevent avoidable and unnecessary readmissions. The solution is applauded for providing highly regarded content that is easily consumed and updated within the electronic health record. Zynx also stands apart from other vendors related to outcomes improvement as noted by one client who remarked that, “a decrease in the length of stay was the immediate outcome we saw after implementing ZynxCare. We also increased our compliance around care plans for our clinicians.” 2
“We are honored to be able to continue to work with talented healthcare providers to create the annual Best in KLAS report. Their feedback is beneficial as vendors strive for excellence,” said Adam Gale, CEO and president of KLAS Research.
One of a suite of clinical decision support products from Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions, ZynxCare specifically outscored other products in the majority of categories including quality of implementation, training, support, needed product functionality, and ease of use.2
“The fact that our customers, through the KLAS study, have evaluated our product so favorably provides us with the ultimate stamp of approval. We are truly honored to be recognized for all the hard work that we have put into developing and implementing a clinical decision support solution that provides evidence-based care guidance at those crucial care moments that really matter to patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations,” stated Bertina Yen, MD, MPH, executive vice president of the product group at Zynx Health. “With this recognition,” Dr. Yen added, “we know that we are on the right path and will continue to work toward providing solutions that will improve clinical and financial outcomes and transform healthcare delivery.”
About Zynx Health
Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.About Hearst Health
Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG and Homecare Homebase. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 76% of discharged patients, 133 million insured individuals, 30 million home health visits, 1.88 billion retail pharmacy prescriptions and 3.26 billion prescription claims. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. www.hearsthealth.com1 “2014 Best in KLAS Report,” January 2015. Copyright © 2015 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com
2 “CDS Order Sets and Care Plans 2014,” September 2014. Copyright © 2014 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com
Media Contact
Angela Jenkins
Amendola Communications for
Zynx Health
720.859.6930
[email protected]Posted 2.2.2015