Carestream earns top KLAS ratings for vendor-neutral archive and universal viewer

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 31 — Carestream Health earned top ratings from healthcare providers in three KLAS categories: Best in KLAS VNA/Image Archive, Best in KLAS PACS Middle East/Africa, and Category Leader in Universal Viewer for the second consecutive year. These awards were published in the 2019 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report issued today.

KLAS is an independent research organization that monitors healthcare vendor performance. Best in KLAS awards are based on user scores compiled from feedback of thousands of healthcare providers at clinics, hospitals and local, regional and national healthcare systems.

Carestream has earned eight KLAS awards in the past six years for its CARESTREAM Vue PACS, CARESTREAM Vue Motion universal viewer and CARESTREAM Vue Archive.

“Achieving top scores in these categories highlights our success in meeting customer needs by providing world-class systems and services that consistently received high marks from users,” said Ludovic d’Aprea, Carestream’s General Manager for Healthcare Information Solutions. “These awards also recognize our employees for their hard work and professionalism in serving customers around the globe.”

The following quotes from users of Carestream systems can be found on the KLAS web site: “Carestream Vue Archive is a good, standardized product. Carestream is thoughtful about how they plan out upgrades and new features. They have a great application team to support their product” and “Carestream offers a great, fully fledged product that works for multiple users. The system has many functions to meet the needs of any facility.”

A user of the company’s Vue Motion viewer reports that “Carestream's executives are very engaged. The radiologists and referring physicians love the options and flexibility they get from Vue Motion. It is easy to use and we have advanced tools that we can use without being at a workstation; our clinicians love that.” 

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