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PHNS is First IT Outsourcer to Receive National Emergency Telecommunications Service Priority
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 3, 2008--PHNS, a Texas-based IT outsourcing company, announced that it is the first information technology outsourcing company to qualify for priority restoration and telecommunication services under the National Communications System/Telecommunication Services Priority (TSP) program. The TSP program provides priority telecommunication services that are critical to national security and emergency preparedness, particularly for coordinating and responding to natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and forest fires, and man-made disasters such as terrorist attacks. The TSP priority will enable PHNS to obtain Government Emergency Telecommunications Service and Wireless Priority Service so that PHNS can continue to provide critical IT services to its 400 hospital customers during national or regional emergencies or disasters.
"Qualification under the Telecommunications Service Priority program enables PHNS to ensure that all our hospital customers will have critical telecommunications services so that they can continue to provide uninterrupted healthcare services in the event of natural or man-made disasters or emergencies", said Richard Seril, who is in responsible for Business Continuity/Quality/Compliance for PHNS' IT Division. "We are proud to have been the first information technology outsourcing services company to complete the lengthy qualification process to obtain this crucial telecom priority", added Seril.
About PHNS: PHNS provides information technology (IT) services for hospitals, other healthcare providers and businesses. PHNS' IT services include application hosting, co-location and managed services; electronic off-site data back-up and data vaulting; business continuity solutions; disaster recovery services; and systems integration services. PHNS also provides comprehensive business process solutions for hospitals including health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory and receivables management services. PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand, which allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care. PHNS has approximately 900 customers, including approximately 400 hospital IT and business process customers and approximately 500 IT customers. PHNS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.
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