MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Health Systems, Inc. has partnered with ProActivity, Inc. to provide IT-based process optimization solutions to the hospital industry.

Phoenix, a major healthcare information technology outsourcing and consulting firm today announced a strategic partnership with ProActivity, a leading provider of business process optimization software. Phoenix will incorporate ProActivity's software suite in services to discover, analyze, design, simulate and dynamically monitor end-to-end business processes for hospital clients. By incorporating ProActivity's suite of capabilities into its clinical and business transformation service line, Phoenix will enable hospital clients to speed up documentation, analysis and optimization of hospital operations, for the purpose of rolling out higher quality, more efficient and lower-cost healthcare processes.

"Hospital organizations are focusing increasingly on IT-based process efficiencies and effectiveness as a means to improve the quality of patient care and services," stated Ronald L. Gue, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Phoenix Health Systems. "This jointly developed service solution combining Phoenix' transformational methodologies and ProActivity's sophisticated software enables Phoenix to assist hospitals in maximizing the benefits of their application software investments."

"This exciting partnership between ProActivity, with its best of breed process analysis and optimization solution, and Phoenix, with its leadership capabilities in healthcare IT-based transformation services, is expected to substantially speed time to value for hospital customers' process improvement initiatives and to visibly increase ROI," said Avi Fogel, ProActivity's Chairman and CEO.

About Phoenix Health Systems

Phoenix Health Systems provides twenty-first century healthcare information systems solutions to hospital organizations nationwide. Services include comprehensive information systems department outsourcing and interim management services, and consulting in IT strategic planning, clinical and business transformation, systems procurement and implementation, data security, E-health, HIPAA compliance, revenue cycle enhancement and workforce education. Based in Montgomery Village, Maryland, Phoenix is a tightly-knit, unparalleled team of over 150 healthcare IT professionals led by its founder, Ronald L. Gue, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board. Phoenix' staff members distinguish themselves by their personal commitment to Phoenix clients and by adhering to best-practice methodologies, SLAs, and stringent quality assurance measures to ensure client satisfaction. For additional information, visit http://www.phoenixhealth.com/.

About ProActivity

ProActivity provides software solutions that enable streamlined business processes and an effective business process life-cycle. Large enterprise customers rely on ProActivity to optimize key value-chains and end-to-end processes -- reducing costs, increasing throughput and customer satisfaction. ProActivity is a venture-capital backed private company, with headquarters in Newton, MA. More information is available at http://www.proactivityinc.com/.

CONTACT: D'Arcy Guerin Gue, Executive Vice President of Phoenix Health
Systems, +1-301-869-7300, dgue@phoenixhealth.com

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