Healthcare Providers Rate Halogen Software as Top Talent Management Vendor in Latest KLAS Report

Halogen receives top scores for customer confidence in future vision and impact on efficiency

OTTAWA, Sept. 15, 2014 /CNW/ - Halogen Software has been rated the top performing talent management vendor in the latest KLAS Human Capital Management report, which focuses on the healthcare provider market. Based directly on customer feedback, the ranking was announced in the KLAS report, "Human Capital Management 2014: Just Efficient Is Not Sufficient." KLAS uses ratings from hundreds of healthcare providers to rank human capital management vendors, and in the talent management category, Halogen Software outperformed every other vendor.

The KLAS report states that Halogen has the strongest performance in talent management out of the vendors measured by KLAS, and "received one of the strongest votes of confidence among the vendors measured for its future vision."[1]

The Halogen TalentSpace™ suite for Healthcare is used by hundreds of healthcare organizations, like Madison County Hospital, who has partnered with Halogen to execute a talent strategy aligned to its mission, and to address goals such as improving scores for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey.

"I'm not surprised Halogen is recognized as a top talent management vendor in this report," said Becky Rozell, Chief Human Resources Officer at Madison County Hospital. "Halogen has helped us to increase HCAHPS goal accountability and alignment within our organization and supported us in improving the employee experience at Madison County. Our employees understand the value of the work they do, and the impact it has on patient satisfaction. Halogen's products and services are outstanding."

In the talent management category of the report, vendors are measured on a variety of criteria including efficiency, customer confidence, cost savings and future vision.

"We're honored to be recognized as the top healthcare vendor especially because this feedback comes directly from healthcare customers," said Donna Ronayne, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Halogen Software. "We've worked alongside our clients to evolve our talent management suite for healthcare and really focused on the talent management outcomes that matter most to their organizations – from improving patient satisfaction, to nursing peer reviews, to timely reporting to support accreditation."

A copy of the KLAS report "Human Capital Management 2014: Just Efficient Is Not Sufficient" is available for download at: https://www.klasresearch.com/Store/ReportDetail.aspx?Productid=928

The Halogen TalentSpace suite for Healthcare is designed to help healthcare facilities build high performing teams with the right skills, knowledge and competencies to deliver quality patient care. The Halogen Performance™ Healthcare module is designed to meet the specific performance management needs of healthcare providers, and has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association for employee performance management.

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 executives 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. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

About Halogen Software
Halogen Software (TSX: HGN) offers an organically built cloud-based talent management suite that reinforces and drives higher employee performance across all talent programs – whether that is recruiting, performance management, learning and development, succession planning or compensation. With 2,000 customers worldwide, Halogen Software has been recognized as a market leader by major business analysts and has garnered the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry. Halogen Software's powerful, yet simple-to-use solutions, which also include industry-vertical editions, are used by organizations that want to build a world-class workforce that is aligned, inspired and focused on delivering exceptional results. For more information, visit: http://www.halogensoftware.com. Subscribe to Halogen Software's Exploring Talent Management blog: http://www.halogensoftware.com/blog/  or follow Halogen Software on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HalogenSoftware.

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[1] "Human Capital Management 2014: Just Efficient Is Not Sufficient," August 2014. © 2014 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com

SOURCE: Halogen Software

Melany Gallant, Manager, Public Relations, Halogen Software, [email protected], 613-270-1011 x 4338