Dairyland Healthcare Solutions announced today that for the third consecutive year it has been recognized as the "Best in KLAS" vendor in the Community Hospital Information System category by KLAS Enterprises. The award is based on data collected by KLAS over a 13-month period and published in the "Top 20: Year End Best in KLAS" report.

"Dairyland is exceptionally proud to be the first vendor in the category to be awarded "Best in KLAS" for three consecutive years," said Alan Grundei, President and CEO, "The continued recognition emphasizes our commitment and focus on community hospitals and healthcare systems validates the investments we continue to make in our product, services and support."

In 2005 KLAS conducted over 10,000 confidential interviews with healthcare executives and professionals covering more than forty areas of performance. The performance areas focus on customers experience with vendors in the area sales, implementation, products and customer support. "Healthcare providers benefit when vendors exceed expectations. Being recognized as "Best in KLAS" indicates Dairyland is exceeding customer expectations in the community hospital market," said Kent Gale, President of KLAS.

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.