Dairyland Healthcare Solutions announced today that it was awarded the "Best in KLAS" rating in the Community Hospital Information System category for 2004 from KLAS Enterprises. The 2004 #1 rating is the second year in a row that Dairyland has received the honor and reflects Dairyland’s on-going commitment to providing the best products, services and customer care.

"We are extremely proud of being recognized as the "Best In KLAS" vendor to the community hospital market for two consecutive years. The recognition is a demonstration of our commitment and focus on community hospitals and healthcare systems," said Alan Grundei, Dairyland’s President and CEO. "The "Best In KLAS" distinction validates the decisions we have made over the last couple years to invest significantly in product development, implementation services and customer support."

The award is based on corporate and product performance data collected by KLAS over a 13-month period and published in the "Top 20: Year End Best in KLAS" report. Data for determining the "Best In KLAS" vendors is provided through confidential interviews with healthcare executives and covers over 40 different performance areas.

"Dairyland continues to focus on the community hospital market, and we have seen their results in the category continue to improve," said Adam Gale, KLAS Enterprises’ Vice President, "For 2004 they rated first or second in 33 of the 40 performance areas included in our research, resulting in the “Best In KLAS” ranking in the Community Hospital Information System category for the second consecutive year."

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.