DALLAS, TX, February 8, 2011 - PHNS, the leading independent provider of comprehensive healthcare information technology ("IT") services and business process solutions for hospitals and other healthcare providers, today announced that it is changing its name to Anthelio, effective immediately.
Anthelio derives its name from anthelion, the halo around bodies directly opposite the sun. The new corporate identity stands for an unchanging belief in setting a higher standard in healthcare, a relentlessly rising benchmark, like the ascending sun.
The new name also reflects the broadening of the company's services portfolio and a reinvigorated go-to-market strategy focused on providing hospitals with innovative ways to use technology and re-engineered business processes to improve patient care, streamline operations and achieve significant cost advantages. This follows the Company's acquisition by The ConJoin Group and Actis on October 29, 2010.
"Our new corporate identity reflects a renewed commitment to innovation and the significant infrastructure and expertise we now have in place to help hospitals meet unprecedented technology, operational and financial challenges," said Richard S. Garnick, Chief Executive Officer of Anthelio. "Anthelio is focused on redefining fundamental economics of the current hospital cost structure to drive significant top and bottom line results, realize cost efficiencies and scale, and help create a higher standard of care throughout the industry."
As an important part of Anthelio's goal to create a higher standard in healthcare, the Company has established an independent group of outstanding healthcare experts who have become members of its Healthcare Innovation Council, which will generate innovative ideas about how U.S. hospitals can meet their escalating quality and financial pressures. The Healthcare Innovation Council will develop innovative ideas that would enable healthcare providers to improve their delivery of high quality, safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable healthcare services, and improve their top-line and bottom-line financial results.
Richard Kneipper, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer of Anthelio, will serve as Chairman of the newly formed Healthcare Innovation Council.
"Our new name and our new Healthcare Innovation Council illustrates our renewed commitment to excellence and a reinvigorated approach to ramping up our core offerings in a way that reflects a real urgency in the healthcare community to make better use of technology and improved business processes to improve patient care and streamline operations," said Mr. Kneipper. "Anthelio is focused on bringing to market a truly innovative set of ideas to address the many challenges that hospitals and other healthcare providers face."
"The Council will also give our clients access to some of the most talented and influential executives in our industry to help navigate through one of the most challenging environments that we've ever experienced," added Mr. Kneipper.
The Healthcare Innovation Council will use sophisticated ideation software to harness ideas from Anthelio's customer base of more than 100 hospitals and healthcare providers. Council members will meet quarterly to review innovative ideas generated by members, Anthelio's employees and employees of Anthelio's customers. Anthelio will also soon launch a collaborative public healthcare innovation "wiki" to demonstrate that mass collaboration can generate game-changing innovative ideas that will improve our healthcare quality and costs. In order to convert ideas into results, Anthelio will "road test" merit worthy innovative ideas generated by its Healthcare Innovation Council and its "wiki" by implementing them in pilot projects at selected hospitals using Anthelio's extensive clinical, information technology and business process resources and expertise, and the results of these pilot projects will be shared publicly.
Jack Lord, MD, Chairman, Dexcom, Inc., and newly appointed member of the Healthcare Innovation Council, said, "The healthcare industry faces a multitude of clinical and economic challenges that can only be met by rigorous innovation and a commitment to use the latest scientific and technological advances to improve the quality and efficiency of care and the financial performance of hospitals and other healthcare providers. I am delighted to join such a distinguished group of executives and medical practitioners to take a fresh, 360-degree view of the healthcare ecosystem and begin to take steps toward raising the standard of care and efficiency and effectiveness of hospitals."
JM Trivedi, Head of South Asia, Actis, a private equity firm and significant investor in Anthelio, said, "We believe Anthelio is well positioned to expand its offering of high quality services to healthcare providers and build a true leadership position within the healthcare IT market. The Company's vision aligns with both our investment thesis and our values."
Healthcare Innovation Council Members:
- Jack Bailey, FACHE, Former COO, California Pacific Medical Center; former SVP, The Hunter Group; former CEO, Memorial Health System of East Texas; former Commander, 11th Contingency Hospital, USAF; former CEO, Lutheran Medical System of North Texas
- Jim Brexler, FACHE, MPA, CEO, Erlanger Health System; Vice Chancellor, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Services Division and CEO of its Health Care Services Division
- Robert Burns, PhD, MBA, Chair of the Health Care Management Department at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management & Economics
- Hud Connery, MHA, CEO of Performance Management Institute (strategic planning services and performance management tools for hospitals); former founder and CEO of Essent Healthcare; former COO of HealthTrust (now part of HCA)
- Jack Lord, MD, Chairman, Dexcom, Inc.; former CEO, Navigenics; former SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Humana Inc.; former COO, American Hospital Association; Director, Stericycle; Member, Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC
- Julie Klapstein, CEO, Availity (health information exchange network between payers and providers) owned by BlueCross BlueShield of Florida, Humana, HCSC, WellPoint, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota; former CEO of Phycom, a vendor of medical management solutions
- MaryAnn Stump, RN, President, Innovation International, Generate; former SVP, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota; External Advisory Board, Yale College of Nursing; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow National Advisory Board
About Anthelio: Anthelio provides comprehensive clinical informatics/analytics and deployment services as well as information technology and business process optimization (BPO) to hospitals and healthcare providers across the United States. By provisioning hospitals with comprehensive, high-quality, flexible and secure IT services, Anthelio improves hospitals' healthcare services while reducing costs and streamlining processes. It leverages knowledge and expertise built over a decade of operations about clinical and administrative IT processes and best practices to provide improved IT and BPO services at lower costs to customers. Anthelio is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. For additional information, visit the company's website at http://www.antheliohealth.com/.