KLAS Research, Inc. is the official Summit Series education partner, working with Healthcare Innovation to develop panels on various topics for each Healthcare Innovation Summit. Started in 1996 by 4 members of the Healthcare IT (HIT) industry, Kent Gale, Leonard Black, Adam Gale, and Scott Holbrook, KLAS was founded with a desire to help providers, and now payers, find transparency in the healthcare IT marketplace. KLAS began as a 4-person operation working out of a kitchen, but we now have more than 130 employees working to bring data and insights to the market and shine a light on HIT.