Information Technology
PHNS’ IT services include implementation, maintenance and support of clinical, financial and administrative applications; data centers; help desk; and telephony and local wide area networks for hospitals, healthcare providers and other businesses outside of the healthcare industry.
We provide hospitals with comprehensive, high-quality, flexible and secure IT services that improve hospitals’ healthcare services while reducing costs and streamlining processes. We consolidate and leverage the IT resources of our hospital customers, combined with our detailed IT processes and procedures and best practices, to provide improved IT services, expertise and costs for all of our hospital customers.
Unlike most conventional IT services companies, we do not achieve margins by terminating IT employees hired from hospitals. Instead, we re-examine and re-negotiate current contracts, improve business practices and consolidate IT purchasing, resources and processes.
PHNS has actively expanded its IT service offering and capabilities through its acquisitions of Network Technology Group and AmeriVault Corp., which are now operated together as Venyu. Venyu provides enterprise class data center services, physical and network security protection, disaster recovery services and electronic data backup and recovery services for commercial customers. Venyu’s offsite data backup is the industry-leading backup solution, which is offered as a standalone solution or bundled with virtual disaster recovery. It is fully-automated and maintains the highest industry standards for security, regulatory compliance and recoverability of all computers distributed throughout your business – local and remote. Working seamlessly with offsite data backup, the virtual disaster recovery platform enables rapid recovery by virtualizing your production servers offsite in on of our data centers. Virtualizing your disaster recovery site significantly lowers IT capital expenses by negating the need for duplicated hardware or unreliable tape backup systems.
PHNS and Venyu’s premier data centers deliver the highest levels of reliability through multiple-provide fiber trunk access, redundant uninterruptible power supplies and multiple backup generators. PHNS’ national data center is located 85 feet underground in a limestone cave that is safe from hurricanes, tornadoes and national disasters.
“I actually looked at the PHNS partnership as a cavalry riding in that would help me because there were lots of things we were trying to do that were not being done on-time or on-budget.” Don Kooy, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Regional Medical Center