Coastal Healthcare Consulting Earns Best in KLAS for Clinical Implementation ? Supportive for Second Consecutive Year

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 20, 2006

Coastal Healthcare Consulting, Inc. (Coastal), a premier provider of information technology consulting services for healthcare facilities, received the ?Best in KLAS? designation for the professional services market segment Clinical Implementation – Supportive for the second consecutive year.

Coastal?s ranking was published in the 2006 Top 20 Year-End report recently issued by KLAS Enterprises, LLC (KLAS). KLAS conducts interviews with healthcare providers who utilize professional service firms for technology projects, and summarizes the performance data collected over the past 13 months into The Top 20 Year-End Best in KLAS Report. Coastal received ?Best in KLAS? designation for Clinical Implementation ? Supportive based on direct client feedback from projects in which Coastal provided resources and tools for a portion of an implementation or upgrade, including key intellectual capital, and completed a measurable portion of the project.

?Our second consecutive ?Best in KLAS? award is truly a testament to our highly-skilled consultants,? said Amy Collins, President of Coastal Healthcare Consulting. ?Our consultants have the ability to manage projects, share implementation best practices and work together on client teams in a cooperative, results-focused manner. We are pleased that our clients can count on Coastal to achieve project success.?

Coastal specializes in providing consulting resources to healthcare facilities in order to assist with the project management and implementation of information systems. Coastal follows a proven methodology and works closely with its clients to ensure the success of each phase of implementation.

About Coastal Healthcare Consulting, Inc.

Coastal Healthcare Consulting, Inc. (?Coastal?) is a premier provider of healthcare information systems consulting with a proven track record of performance over the last eleven years. Coastal?s hard-working, client-focused professionals have the information, expertise and solutions to ensure successful completion of projects for healthcare facilities. Coastal specializes in providing project management and implementation services, including tailoring, testing, training and go-live, to an entire healthcare facility or to a single department. For more information, visit http://www.coastalhealthcare.com.

About KLAS Enterprises, LLC

KLAS, founded in 1996, is the only research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of Healthcares Information Technology vendors and beginning in 2004, the performance of healthcare Professional Services Firms. The KLAS staff and advisory board offer an average of 25 years of healthcare information technology experience.

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