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66 CIO / HEALTH IT Best in KLAS: Epic Named Top Overall Software Suite for 8th Year in a Row — 9 Report Insights By Julie Spitzer E pic took home a number of Best in KLAS awards for soware and services, including top Overall Soware Suite for the eighth consecutive year. e 2018 "Best in KLAS: Soware & Services" report, published Jan. 30, is based on cus- tomer feedback. "Best in KLAS is more than a ranking," said KLAS President Adam Gale. "It is a recognition of vendors committed to delivering superior solutions. It gives voice to thousands of providers and payers who are demanding better performance, usability and interoperability in healthcare technology." Here are nine report insights. 1. In addition to winning the top Overall So- ware Suite award, Epic was named the top Overall Physician Vendor and won Best in KLAS awards in seven segments, as well as Cat- egory Leader awards in two market segments. 2. Here is the KLAS ranking for Overall So- ware Suite: • Epic • Meditech • Cerner • Allscripts (Paragon by McKesson) • Allscripts • CPSI (Healthland) • Medhost • CPSI (Evident rive) 3. Here is the KLAS ranking for Overall Phy- sician Practice Vendor: • Epic • athenahealth • GE Healthcare • Cerner • NextGen Healthcare • Allscripts • eClinicalWorks • Greenway (Prime Suite) 4. For the second year in a row, Optimum Healthcare IT was named the top Overall IT Services Firm, and it won two Best in KLAS awards and one Category Leader award. 5. ECG Management, a health IT consulting firm, won Overall Best in KLAS for Health- care Management Consulting Firm. 6. Cerner, athenahealth and Merge each re- ceived two Best in KLAS awards. 7. GE Healthcare Universal Viewer took home the Most Improved Soware Product. 8. KLAS awarded its Most Improved Physi- cian Practice Product to NextGen Healthcare NextGen EHR. 9. Omnicell's i.v.station was awarded KLAS' Most Improved Medical Equipment Product. n Apple Teams Up With Aon, Allianz, Cisco to Rollout Cyber Risk Management Solution By Julie Spitzer H orne, a company Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest General Hospital enlists to provide certain Medicaid reimbursement services, discovered one of its em- ployees had fallen victim to an ongoing phishing attack that may have compromised Forrest's patients' protected health information. An unauthorized individual had access to the email account from Oct. 31 to Nov. 1, 2017, during which the account was sending phishing emails. Some of those emails contained an attachment with the PHI of certain patients treated at Forrest. Though Horne cannot confirm whether the unauthorized in- dividual accessed or acquired the attachment, the potentially exposed data includes patients' names, Medicaid identifica- tion numbers, dates of birth, patient account numbers, dates of service and Social Security numbers. Horne began notifying affected individuals Feb. 1 and will offer them one year of free credit monitoring services provid- ed by Experian. Forrest patients can call Horne's dedicated assistance line to find out if they are affected and learn how to enroll in credit monitoring. n Allscripts Appoints Dennis Olis CFO: 4 Things to Know By Jessica Kim Cohen A llscripts appointed Dennis Olis, the company's interim CFO since May 2017, to permanently re- main in the position effective Jan. 31. Here are four things to know about Mr. Olis. 1. As CFO, Mr. Olis will oversee the company's finance functions, including controllership, tax, internal audit, financial planning and analysis, treasury and investor re- lations. 2. Mr. Olis joined Allscripts in November 2012 as the company's senior vice president of operations. He went on to serve as senior vice president of strategic initiatives from November 2016 to May 2017. 3. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Mil- waukee-based Marquette University and a master's de- gree in business administration and accounting from Chicago-based DePaul University. 4. Mr. Olis will report to Allscripts CEO Paul Black. "Den- nis' experience in a variety of finance and operational leadership roles, paired with his accomplishments as Allscripts interim CFO, solidifies our decision to have him permanently take on this role," Mr. Black said. n