Dr. Wendy Frieling Joins PHNS Team

DALLAS--(Business Wire)--
PHNS announced that Wendy Frieling, MD, MMM, has joined PHNS as Northeast
Regional Account Executive, where she will supervise the delivery of PHNS`
information technology and business process services to hospitals in the
Northeast. Dr. Frieling, who has been involved in the development of electronic
medical records (EMRs) since the early 1990s, will also participate in PHNS`
eHealth team, which implements and integrates EMRs and other electronic
technology based solutions for hospitals to improve, maximize and enhance
patient care and quality.

Prior to joining PHNS, Dr. Frieling received her MD from UMDNJ, NJ Medical
School in Newark, New Jersey, and completed a residency in pediatrics at The
University of Colorado, The Children`s Hospital in Denver, Colorado. She joined
the academic general pediatrics faculty at the University of Vermont in 1995
where she was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. In 1998, Dr. Frieling moved
back to her home state of New Jersey where in 2002 she opened Wellness Center
Pediatrics, a paperless, wireless office. In 2006, she became "physician
champion" for Newton Memorial Hospital`s medical staff as they went live with a
new clinical information system in 2007. That position evolved into a CMIO role
and in 2008 Dr. Frieling became CIO for Newton Memorial. While at Newton
Memorial, Dr. Frieling also had the opportunity to serve as interim VPMA and as
medical director of the hospitalist program. She completed her Masters degree in
Medical Management at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Dr. Frieling continues
to practice pediatrics in Sparta, New Jersey, and is actively involved in the
creation of a Health Information Exchanges in northern New Jersey.

"PHNS is delighted to add Dr. Wendy Frieling to our rapidly growing team in the
Northeast," said Dan Allison, CEO of PHNS. "Dr. Frieling`s extensive clinical,
EMR and hospital management expertise is a wonderful addition to our competitive
differentiator, which is our substantial clinical domain knowledge and expertise
in providing EMR and other services that focus on assisting physicians, nurses
and other caregivers to improve patient care, quality and efficiency," added
Allison.

About PHNS: PHNS provides 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 admitting, HIM (including medical record management and
storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical
record services) and revenue cycle 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 1,670 customers, including approximately 400 hospital IT
and business process customers and approximately 1,270 IT customers. PHNS is
headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information
about PHNS.

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