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Press Releases
HSC Healthcare System Selects PHNS for IT Services
DALLAS, TX- May 23, 2007 -
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.
PHNS will provide HSC with experienced, qualified and local IT staff that will include a dedicated
PHNS IT site manager, a regional account executive, employees who are currently providing IT services
to HSC and a support staff of over 100 additional PHNS IT professionals located in the Washington,
D.C. metropolitan area. PHNS will also provide all of HSC’s Microsoft SharePoint application
development resources and services. In addition, PHNS will may relocate HSC’ data center into one of
PHNS’ high availability, hardened hospital data centers in order improve the reliability of HSC’s IT
services and the safety of its IT resources.
“HSC selected PHNS after an exhaustive, competitive selection process” said Gene Greer, HSC’s chief
information officer. “We expect PHNS’ IT services will provide HSC with improved operations, increased
efficiencies, reduced costs and enhanced services, and we’re looking forward to our new IT services
partnership with PHNS”, added Greer.
“PHNS is very pleased to have been selected by HSC to provide its IT services” said Chick Young, CEO
and chairman of PHNS. “PHNS will provide HSC with significantly enhanced IT services that will
enhance its unique ability to deliver health services for children with special needs and their
families”, added Young.
About The HSC Health Care System:
HSC consists of The HSC Pediatric Center (formerly The Hospital for Sick Children), The HSC Foundation
and Health Services for Children with Special Needs, Inc. (HSCSN). For over a century The HSC
Pediatric Center has been a recognized leader of pediatric rehabilitative services in the
Washington-Baltimore service area, providing quality, comprehensive health care services for children
and youth with special needs and their families. The HSC Foundation is dedicated to improving access
to services for individuals who face challenging social and health care barriers due to disability,
chronic illness, or other circumstances that present unique needs, and has distinguished itself by
its concern for and specialization in children's medical services and urban issues, particularly in
the Washington metropolitan area. HSCSN is an innovative care management health plan coordinating
health, social, and education services for the pediatric Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and
SSI-eligible populations of Washington, DC. See www.hfscsite.org,
www.hscfoundation.org, and
www.hscsn-net.org for additional information
about HSC.
About PHNS:
PHNS provides comprehensive healthcaring solutions for hospitals including information technology,
health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding,
release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory services and receivables management
services. Serving more than 400 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations,
enhancing technology, providing capital dollars and increasing cash on hand. This allows hospitals to focus on
their core competency--patient care. PHNS is a national healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.
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