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New Mexico Heart Institute Selects Phoenix Health Systems for Comprehensive IT Outsourcing Services

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 12:00 CST

DALLAS, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- New Mexico Heart Institute (NMHI), Albuquerque, NM, has signed an agreement with Phoenix Health Systems for information technology outsourcing services.

Phoenix, a premier provider of integrated professional and technical services focused on the business goals of healthcare organizations, announced today that it will manage NMHI's Information Services Department and provide a full scope of IT and business services, including IT leadership and strategic planning, application support for the Allscripts product suite, project management, network, desktop and server management, and HIPAA-compliant security.

"We see our partnership with an experienced national company like Phoenix as a means to enhance service levels for our rapidly growing cardiovascular practice," said NMHI Chief Executive Officer Mike Bukowski. "Phoenix will provide us with dependable and reliable IT services to support the cardiovascular services NMHI provides across the state."

"Phoenix is proud to be selected to provide the IT outsourcing services NMHI needs. The New Mexico Heart Institute is well known for providing quality cardiovascular care to patients, and we look forward to working with them to achieve their long-term objectives," said Darin LeGrange, President and CEO, Phoenix Health Systems. "We are committed to exceeding NMHI's expectations by offering new ways to add value through innovative IT-based solutions to improve healthcare delivery and reduce costs."

About New Mexico Heart Institute

The doctors of NMHI have a 30-year history in New Mexico. The original partners developed and built the heart programs at Presbyterian and St. Joseph's hospitals, and now their expertise also benefits the new Heart Hospital of New Mexico. In 1994, three leading cardiac practices joined to become NMHI, and today the organization offers cardiovascular services throughout New Mexico and surrounding states. The Institute has two office locations in Albuquerque, as well as offices in Los Lunas, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Gallup, Farmington, Roswell and Alamogordo; and provides clinics in Cortez, Colorado, Taos, Raton, Silver City, Ruidoso, Grants and Socorro. Along with direct patient care and cardiology diagnostic and treatment services, NMHI offers prevention, education and research services benefiting patients and health care professionals.

For more information, visit http://www.nmheart.com/. About Phoenix Health Systems

Phoenix Health Systems, a national IT and business process services provider, offers an integrated set of professional and technical services focusing on the business goals of the healthcare organization. Through strategic consulting, IT outsourcing and revenue cycle management, Phoenix will help any healthcare organization achieve its long-term objectives of administrative cost reduction, increased cash flow, improved patient safety and regulatory compliance. For additional information, please contact Phyllis Duggan at (214) 261-0660, ext. 107, or visit http://www.phoenixhealth.com/.

Phoenix Health Systems

CONTACT: Phyllis Duggan of Phoenix Health Systems, +1-214-261-0660,ext. 107

Web site: http://www.phoenixhealth.com/http://www.nmheart.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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