API Healthcare, a GE Healthcare Company, and a leader in workforce optimization technology and services, today announced the company was named ‘Highest Performer’ in the HCM SUITE/BROAD VENDORS category for the company’s suite of human capital management solutions (HCM) by KLAS, a healthcare technology research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure. Technology considered in the 2014 report “Human Capital Management: Just Efficient is not Sufficient,” include API Healthcare Time and Attendance, Staff Scheduling, Human Resources and Payroll, and Talent Management.

Recognized within the report as being an exception to the rule for performance and impact, API Healthcare is one of only a handful of vendors to stand out as delivering both high customer satisfaction and high impact in efficiency, cost savings and future vision. The report also notes the company as being the friendliest and most supportive HCM suite vendor.

“Once again API Healthcare has set the bar for excellence in human capital management technology,” said API Healthcare General Manager Lisa LaBau. “The GE Healthcare acquisition created a strong union between two companies fully committed to the research and development of powerful and relevant technology that is worthy of maintaining a top ranking with KLAS.”

The ‘Beyond Efficient’ designation recognizes standout vendors with high performance scores and multiple above-average ratings across the impact areas measured in the report, which includes efficiency, cost savings and future vision.

“Continuing to stand out as a leader in this space, API Healthcare received the highest scores among the fully rated suite/broad vendors we evaluated, and is seen as a large, but friendly vendor,” said KLAS Report Author Joe Van De Graaf. “API Healthcare has consistently demonstrated that they place the highest value on building solutions that enable clients to optimize their workforce. The customers we spoke to as part of our research gave API Healthcare positive remarks for overall experience, and expressed the highest confidence in the company’s future direction.”

For more information about the report, and API Healthcare’s top ranked solutions, please visit,www.apihealthcare.com/KLAS.

ABOUT API HEALTHCARE

API Healthcare (www.apihealthcare.com) is focused on workforce optimization solutions exclusively for the healthcare industry. The company’s staffing and scheduling, patient classification, human resources, talent management, payroll, time and attendance, business analytics, and staffing agency solutions are used by more than 1,600 health systems and staffing agencies. Founded in 1982, API Healthcare has been rated by KLAS in the Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards Report (www.KLASresearch.com) as the top time and attendance provider system for the last 12 years (2002-2013) and the top staffing and scheduling solution in 2012 and 2013.

GE HEALTHCARE

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.

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 professionals 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 vendor performance. Follow KLAS on Twitter (News – Alert) at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.