KLAS Announces Partnership with CHUG

    OREM, UT, December 04, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- KLAS announced today that it has formed a partnership with the Centricity Healthcare User Group (CHUG) to give thousands of providers performance insights regarding GE Centricity solutions.

The partnership with KLAS will help CHUG members utilize a wealth of data and analysis based on provider-peer experiences with GE Centricity products. The alignment may include collaborative research, insight sharing, special report access, advocacy support and more.

"Working together with CHUG is not only important to healthcare providers using GE Centricity solutions," said Adam Gale, KLAS president. "It's also critical for GE, which can leverage the data to deliver better technology to their users--thereby helping providers give better patient care."

CHUG is pleased to be partnering with KLAS and to be able to offer this level of performance perception across healthcare technology, through measurement of GE products as well as comparisons of other vendors.

According to Terri Werner Brown, president of CHUG, "Our collaboration with KLAS fully supports CHUG's mission of promoting the optimum use of Centricity products through enhanced communication and quality interactions between users and GE Healthcare IT leadership. KLAS allows users a measured voice while maintaining impartiality. We feel this association will strengthen our users and ultimately our relationship and growth with GE products."

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 CHUG
Centricity EMR evolved from MedicaLogic, founded by Dr. Mark Leavitt in 1985. The original version of the MedicaLogic EMR was named ClinicalLogic and was a character based product. The user group was not referred to by the product name, but by the company name, MedicaLogic User Group (MUG), and had their first conference in 1994.

In 1995, MedicaLogic released the first Windows version of the product and rebranded it as Logician. Following that rebranding the User Group renamed itself to Logician User Group (LUG).

In 2002, GE Healthcare purchased MedicaLogic's electronic medical record system and in 2003 acquired Millbrook's practice management system. These products were rebranded to join GE's other healthcare products into the Centricity line of products. Following the GE purchase and rebranding to the Centricity name, the user group was renamed to the Centricity Healthcare User Group (CHUG). Initially, CHUG only included Centricity electronic medical record users. GE expanded the practice management system purchased from Millbrook to include both the practice management product and also a compatible electronic medical record that mirrored the existing Centricity electronic medical record. Following that, CHUG began to include users of the GE Centricity Practice Solutions product line, and in 2014, the Centricity Technical Conference (CTC) attendees joined with CHUG to further increase the user group reach.

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