Corporate Backgrounder 2011
History:
Founded in 1980, Healthland (formerly Dairyland Healthcare Solutions) is America's market
leader of IT solutions to small community and critical access hospitals. With over 30 years of
service and 500 customers across the United States, Healthland software and services
empower rural community hospitals to deliver the best possible healthcare by helping create
one patient chart across the community, be it a hospital, clinic, home healthcare or long term
care facility.
In 2007, Healthland was acquired by Francisco Partners, a leading private equity firm focused
on information technology. Healthland is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., with business
hubs located in Glenwood, Minn., Louisville, Ky. and Waco, Texas.
The organization announced its acquisition of Advanced Professional Software, Inc. (APS) in
September 2008. The Waco, Texas-based company became a division of Healthland and
added 140 new healthcare providers to its customer base, making Healthland the largest
supplier of IT solutions to critical access and rural community hospitals in America.
In August 2009, the healthcare IT provider acquired American Healthnet (AHN), based in
Omaha, Neb. Founded in 1980, AHN developed healthcare information systems to help
hospitals efficiently manage critical information and decision processes to enable quality and
cost-effective patient care. As a result of the acquisition, Healthland acquired all of AHN’s
customers, further cementing its role as the healthcare IT market leader for rural community and
critical access hospitals.
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Today, the company’s rural market focus remains a part of the corporate culture. Fifty percent of
Healthland employees have lived in a small town, and the company actively seeks to recruit and
retain professionals who value family, community and quality healthcare.
Healthland makes it a top priority to understand the rural healthcare environment, including the
unique needs, barriers and financial considerations these hospitals face every day. With this
awareness, the company has developed highly functional, cost-effective information systems
while providing superior customer service and support.
Solutions:
Healthland provides healthcare IT solutions to the rural community hospital market, designed to
enhance patient safety, reduce medical errors and improve employee satisfaction. These
comprehensive solutions – including the electronic health record (EHR) – are a unique
combination of functionality, integration and value. Today, Healthland’s EHR solutions for
hospitals and clinics satisfy a fundamental component within the government’s vision of creating
national, interoperable EHR systems. Healthland Inpatient EHR has received ONC-ATCB
2011/2012 certification from CCHIT® and meets all requirements necessary to achieve Stage 1
Meaningful Use compliance.
Healthland plays an active role helping rural community hospitals realize the benefits of a fully
integrated EHR, including the ability to share electronic patient charts across their continuum of
care. Rural community hospitals find their EHR investment with Healthland helps with
recruitment and retention of physicians and hospital staff; assists in increasing the quality of
patient care they provide; and enables them to compete with other facilities in the region,
improving their community image.
The Healthland Solution provides complete visibility to patient information across all points of
care, whether it is a community hospital or a critical access hospital with associated clinics,
long-term care facilities, and a home healthcare practice.
Services:
Healthland also specializes in services to assist community healthcare providers as they
implement clinical and financial patient information systems. Healthland services promote
collaboration with decision-makers and key users—from the initial planning phase through major
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implementation milestones— to ensure a strong sense of ownership and shared knowledge
transfer of the applications.
Once all applications are operational, Healthland's dedicated client care team will continue to
ensure everything is operating smoothly and provide any remote hardware and networking
service support that’s needed.
Healthland’s specialized services include:
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Implementation Services
Professional Services
Training
Support
Associations: Healthland’s dedication to its customers extends beyond its solutions and
services. The company is a member of and/or actively supports numerous industry
organizations responsible for providing leadership in healthcare, information technology and
standards development.
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Partners:
Healthland is committed to providing complete solutions for its customers. The company’s select
partnerships enable the deployment of solutions on proven platforms, extend and enhance
product lines, and provide innovative services. Partners include:
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Awards:
In August 2009, a KLAS report ranked Healthland the highest in performance and customer
satisfaction, exceeding all other vendors in the 50-bed-and-under hospital market. According to
the report, Closing the IT Gap: Critical Access to 50 Bed Hospitals © 2009 KLAS Enterprises,
LLC., Healthland’s score illustrated its constant and predictable performance across regions,
departments and hospital sizes in the small community hospital segment.
Healthland also received “Best in KLAS” achievement awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005. KLAS
helps healthcare providers make informed technology decisions by offering accurate, honest
and impartial vendor performance information. KLAS independently monitors vendor
performance through the active participation of thousands of healthcare organizations.
A Best in KLAS designation is reserved for vendor products and firms that lead select market
segments in KLAS' annual year—end report. The title of Best in KLAS remains applicable for
one year.
KLAS Confidential Information. © 2008 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.
* KLAS is vendor neutral and does not endorse Healthland in any way.
Healthland has also received the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information
Technology (CCHIT) Certification for products including:
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Healthland Inpatient EHR has received ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification from CCHIT®
for Stage 1 Meaningful Use compliance
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Clinical Information system, version 9.0.0 from Healthland is a CCHIT Certified® product
for Inpatient EHR 2007
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Physician Practice documentation, version 9.0.0 from Healthland is a CCHIT Certified®
product for Ambulatory EHR 2007
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CCHIT has evolved as the leader in developing standards for the healthcare information
systems industry in the areas of functionality, security/reliability and interoperability. To
accelerate the adoption of health information technology and to ensure that software vendors
meet standards of excellence, the CCHIT organization offers a certification program for product
assessment. To date, CCHIT has developed these standards and certification processes in two
areas—Ambulatory Services and Inpatient Services—and is currently developing additional
standards.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT ®) is an independent,
nonprofit organization that has been named by the federal government as the Recognized Certification
Body for health information technology. "CCHIT®" and "CCHIT Certified®" are service marks of the
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
Media Contacts:
Tracey Schroeder
Healthland
tracey.schroeder@healthland.com
612.787.3125 office
651.373.3007 mobile
Dawn Klehr
Communications Consultant
dfklehr@yahoo.com
952.994.2177
More information on Healthland is available at http://www.healthland.com.
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