Welcome to the RevTech Rx Podcast- Your prescription for a healthy revenue cycle! This episode is powered by Streamline Health, a leader in pre-billing financial performance improvement. ‘The Balancing Act at KLAS' features two great guests. Steve Low, President of KLAS Research, and Jawad Shaikh, Chief Strategy Officer for Streamline Health, discuss the role that KLAS Research has played in helping healthcare providers find objective, actionable insights into the performance of HIT vendors supporting the spectrum of delivery settings.Starting with the origin story of KLAS itself, our panel reviews the initial goals of setting up an independent, transparent source of information on the various technology and service vendors supporting healthcare providers.  By including internal and external views of the role of KLAS, they discuss how its mission has evolved, all while retaining its neutrality and adapting to myriad changes in the HIT market.As the premier source of objective research in the HIT space, providers of all sizes and specialties should tune in to learn how KLAS came to be and how it’s positioned to continue serving the market well into the future.  Connect with our panel of experts:   David Kosloski- Host https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kosloski/ Steve Low, President, KLAS Research https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenlow/Jawad Shaikh, Chief Strategy Officer, Streamline Healthhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jwshaikh/Chapters

Origins of KLAS

Pursuing Best of KLAS

The need for transparency

Audience feedback

KLAS guidance for vendors

Vendor application of feedback

Extending the mission to improve HIT

What sets KLAS apart

KLAS in five years

An outsider’s perspective

Best practices & gap analysis