21 Jun 2007
Thomson Healthcare's MercuryMD Mobile Tops KLAS Mid-year Performance Ranking for Fifth Consecutive Year
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.,
— Thomson Healthcare, the leading provider of integrated decision
support solutions that assist healthcare organizations in their efforts to
improve clinical and business performance, announced that its MercuryMD
Mobile Solution has been recognized as the Category Leader for Mobile Data
Systems in the KLAS Mid-Year Report Card released June 15, 2007.
For more than five years, MercuryMD Mobile has been ranked number one in
the Mobile Data System category, signaling a high degree of quality and
customer confidence in the solution to resolve the challenges of delivering
critical information to medical professionals at the point of care.
MercuryMD Mobile scored 94 percent on key business indicators such as “core
to IS plan,” “would buy again,” “keeps promises” and ranked “client’s best
vendor.” In addition, the solution scored 8.2 out of a possible 9 on
performance indicators around expectations, including “value of the
investment to customers” and “overall quality.”
In compiling the report, KLAS monitors vendor performance through
participation of thousands of healthcare organizations, including
confidential customer interviews of CIOs, healthcare executives, managers,
and clinicians. “Thomson MercuryMD continues to perform at a high rate as
measured by those who know them best, their customers,” noted Jason Hess,
KLAS Director of Research for Clinical Ancillary.
About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions
that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and
business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help
clinicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, government agencies, and
pharmaceutical companies understand healthcare markets, access medical and
drug information, manage costs, and improve the quality of
healthcare.
Thomson Healthcare is a part of The Thomson Corporation, a provider of
value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals
in the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific research, and
financial services. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New
York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). For more
information, visit www.thomsonhealthcare.com.
About KLAS Enterprises
KLAS was 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, KLAS
executives collect information about HIT vendors and personally interview
healthcare executives on their HIT vendor experience. KLAS has partnered
with thousands of healthcare professionals (executives like CFOs and CIOs
along with Directors, Managers and Clinicians) creating a dynamic database
of performance information on the Healthcare Information Technology
software vendors. The KLAS database benefits all players in the healthcare
market by reporting vendor performance data from 4500+ healthcare
facilities, 300 HIT vendors and 500 different products. KLAS subscribers
see the latest, most current performance information because the database
is continually updated with reports from healthcare professionals across
the U.S., Canada and selected countries around the world. For further
information contact KLAS at 801-226-5120 or at www.healthcomputing.com
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