Press Releases

05/23/2007
HSC Healthcare System Selects PHNS for IT Services

The HSC Healthcare System (HSC), Washington, D.C., has chosen PHNS to provide information technology services and resources for HSC. HSC provides health services for children with special needs.

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05/10/2007
North Texas Hospital selects PHNS to provide Coding Compliance Services

North Texas Hospital, a hospital owned and operated by physicians in partnership with Cirrus Health, located in Denton, Texas has chosen PHNS to provide comprehensive coding auditing services for its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide North Texas Hospital with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform thorough reviews of medical record coding to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding.

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04/17/2007
PHNS Acquires Network Technology Group
Firms join to provide greater breadth of IT services to customers

PHNS today announced the acquisition of Network Technology Group, Inc. (NTG), which provides advanced data center services, physical and network security protection, disaster recovery services, and electronic data vaulting services for commercial customers. NTG’s premier data centers provide the highest levels of reliability through multiple-provider fiber trunk access, redundant uninterruptible power supplies and multiple back-up generators.

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04/12/2007
PHNS Announces IT and HIM Services Agreement with Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center

PHNS Inc. announced a new long-term agreement to provide information technology services (IT), health information management (HIM) services (including medical records, transcription and coding) and selected patient financial services to Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center (MCRMC), Mount Clemens, Michigan. PHNS will hire 36 employees who currently provide those services to MCRMC through another services company.

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04/11/2007
LSU HCSD’s Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center selects PHNS to Provide Health Information Management Consulting Services

Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division’s Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center (LJC), a flagship of Disease Management within the LSU HCSD Disease Management Programs in Diabetes, Asthma, HIV-AIDS and Cancer Screening, has chosen PHNS to provide comprehensive coding auditing and interim management services for its Health Information Management (HIM) department.

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04/04/2007
PHNS to Host Ribbon Cutting

The Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors will conduct a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, for PHNS Inc. located in the SpringNet Underground facility at 3253 E. Chestnut Expressway.

PHNS Inc. has announced that its new subterranean, national data center for PHNS’ hospital customers will be located 85 feet underground in the SpringNet Underground facility, a division of City Utilities of Springfield. PHNS will migrate a significant portion of its national hospital data center operations to its new data center.

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04/04/2007
PHNS Announces Disaster-Proof Subterranean Data Center

PHNS Inc. announced that its new subterranean, national data center for PHNS’ hospital customers will be located 85 feet underground in a solid limestone cave in the SpringNet Underground facility developed by City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri. PHNS will migrate a significant portion of its national hospital data center operations to its new subterranean data center.

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04/03/2007
Abington Memorial Hospital Selects PHNS for Onsite Coding Compliance Audit

As part of its endeavor to maintain excellence as a healthcare provider, Abington Memorial Hospital has selected PHNS to provide an onsite audit of the inpatient and outpatient coding division of its Clinical Information Services (CIS) department. PHNS will provide Abington Memorial Hospital with experienced, credentialed Health Information Management (HIM) professionals to review inpatient and outpatient medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, together with any necessary recommendations and coding staff education.

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04/02/2007
Hamot Medical Center Selects PHNS for Onsite and Remote Coding Compliance Audits

Hamot Medical Center, a 343-bed hospital, Erie, Pennsylvania, has selected PHNS to provide both an onsite audit of inpatient coding services and a remote audit of interventional radiology coding services of its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Hamot Medical Center with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform thorough reviews of both inpatient and interventional radiology medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, as well as to provide any necessary recommendations and coding staff education.

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03/23/2007
PHNS Deploys Center 7 Service Management Platform

Center 7, Inc., the leading provider of SaaS platform services, and PHNS, a leader in information technology and business process outsourcing services to the hospital industry, today announced the deployment by PHNS of Center 7’s PilotCenter SaaS Appliance.

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