Dairyland Healthcare Solutions announced today that it was awarded the "Best in KLAS" rating in the Community Hospital Information System category for 2003 from KLAS Enterprises.

"Being recognized as the "Best in KLAS" is a tremendous honor for Dairyland, especially since this is based on input from our customers. We moved from third to second to first over the past three years, " stated Dairyland President Alan Grundei. "This recognition validates our commitment to providing the highest quality support services available in the marketplace. This award is particularly gratifying to receive during a period of time when we have reinvested so much of our efforts in retooling our products."

Said Adam Gale, Vice President of KLAS, "Dairyland has shown consistent improvement over the past several years. Their commitment to customer satisfaction has resulted in their top rating in the Community HIS category with a score above 80."

KLAS was established in 1996 to provide the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with unbiased factual information on HIT vendor performance. KLAS executives annually collect rankings and rating of HIT vendors and personally interview thousands of healthcare executives on their HIT vendor experience. From this KLAS has created a dynamic database of information about the performance of healthcare information technology software vendors. For further information visit www.healthcomputing.com.