USA Today Top Workplaces Award Winner
Each year, Top Workplaces USA awards and recognizes midsize and large organizations based solely on the feedback of their employees. This is the fifth year for the national survey co-sponsored by Energage and USA TODAY, and the first year Orchard Software has earned a spot on the list.
“A Top Workplace award brings a company’s culture to the national stage and it helps them differentiate themselves in a fiercely competitive market space,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO.
Black Book Research Award #1 Ranked LIS Vendor
For the seventh consecutive year, the Black Book Market Research User Survey has ranked Orchard Software as the top laboratory information system (LIS) vendor. In the 2025 survey, Orchard took the top spot in the majority of the 18 categories and was named the overall #1 LIS vendor.
Black Book surveyed users from 2,759 laboratories on the performance of various laboratory information system vendors, collecting ballot results on 18 performance areas of operational excellence to rank vendors by electronic medical and health record product lines. The 18 criteria on operational excellence are subdivided by the client’s industry, market size, geography, software and technology niche, and functions outsourced, and are reported accordingly.
Top Workplace & Culture Excellence Award Winner
For the thirteenth time in fifteen years, Orchard Software was named to the Top Workplaces list for 2024 by the Indianapolis Star. We also won a Culture Excellence Award for Work-Life Flexibility. We’re especially proud of these awards, as Top Workplaces award winners are determined entirely by employee survey feedback.
VETS Indexes Recognized Employer
VETS Indexes awarded Orchard the designation of VETS Indexes Recognized Employer in the 2025 VETS Indexes Employer Awards. The award recognizes the organization’s commitment to recruiting, hiring, retaining, developing, and supporting veterans and the military-connected community. “The diligent efforts of Orchard Software Corporation to hire, retain and support veterans and the military-connected community have earned the organization a highly coveted VETS Indexes Employer Award,” said George Altman, president of VETS Indexes.
Orchard Software Certified as a Great Place to Work
We’re proud to be certified as a Great Place To Work®, an award based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Orchard. This year, the Orchard team’s score was 23 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Orchard Software Recognized as an Adoption Advocate by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption®
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a national, nonprofit public charity dedicated to finding permanent homes for the more than 140,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems. Created by Wendy’s® founder Dave Thomas who was adopted, the Foundation implements evidence-based, results-driven national service programs, foster care adoption awareness campaigns and innovative grantmaking.
More than 30 years ago, Dave Thomas led an initiative advocating for better adoption benefits in the workplace. The Foundation has carried that legacy forward through the Adoption-Friendly Workplace program.
Orchard Software is proud to be named a DTFA 2024 Adoption Advocate, which is an organization that offers financial reimbursement, paid leave, or both, and one that supports making adoption and foster care options for working parents.
“Adoption is an amazing, rewarding experience, which can be costly and time intensive. Adoption benefits help to remove the barriers of affordability and time off from work that many adoptive parents face,” says Rita Soronen, President & CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. “By establishing an adoption benefits policy, Orchard Software is making it easier for employees to consider adopting.”
Top 10 Lab Management Solution Providers 2023
Laboratory management is an essential component of the healthcare industry, responsible for the smooth and efficient operation of diagnostic and research laboratories. To help healthcare facilities adapt and align with the changing industry and keep track of the trendsetters, Medhealth Outlook Magazine has prepared a list of some of the most innovative laboratory management solution providers. The companies included in the list are the ones with some of the most outstanding solutions that could redefine the way the industry works today.
KLAS Awards
Orchard Software has been a leader in KLAS rankings since 2004 and remains the top LIS in the community hospital and ambulatory laboratory markets.
For 2020, Orchard received a KLAS Category Leader award for Laboratory Community Hospital/Ambulatory with an overall KLAS score of 90.4.
Note: 2020 was the last year this award was given.
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