( BW)(GA-LANIER-HEALTHCARE) Lanier Healthcare Ranked Among Top Health Care Technology Companies in America; Company Recognized By Healthcare Informatics
Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001--Lanier Healthcare, a company that offers document applications to help health care professionals create and manage mission-critical health information, ranked number 27 in the June 2001 Healthcare Informatics listing of the top 100 leading health care IT companies.
Companies were ranked according to 2000 revenues achieved from software and associated services to the health care industry.
"We are very proud of our ranking in Healthcare Informatics. It sends a positive message to our customers and the market place, in general," said Dennis Mahoney, president and CEO of Lanier Healthcare. "The ranking shows that we are a solid, successful company that our customers can count on today and in the future. In fact, as we continue to grow and expand our product and service offerings, we look forward to moving up in the ranking to an even higher position in the years ahead."
Lanier Healthcare
Lanier Healthcare (www.lanierhealthcare.com), located in Atlanta, is focused on the delivery of enterprise and Web applications targeting the creation and connection of mission-critical health information. It has strategic partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other leading technology developers.
The company has an established customer base of more than 285,000 physicians, a 50 percent market share in acute care hospitals, and approximately 530 employees. Lanier Healthcare is a Platinum Equity company.
Platinum Equity
Platinum Equity (www.peh.com) is one of the largest and fastest growing, private equity firms in the United States. Platinum is a multi-billion dollar organization specializing in the acquisition and operation of global, mission-critical technology companies.
The unique Los Angeles-based company is recognized as a hybrid financial and strategic buyer with deep financial resources and broad operational expertise. Due to their highly skilled executive management team, Platinum Equity is able to stimulate and help drive the value of its portfolio companies.
Since the company's founding in 1995, Platinum has completed nearly 30 acquisitions of global, mission-critical companies from leading Fortune 500 Corporations including WorldCom, AT&T, Viacom, Dow Jones & Company and IBM.
Today, Platinum Equity has a multi-billion dollar revenue base, an established infrastructure in North America, Europe, Asia and South America and a workforce of more than 10,000 employees serving tens of thousands of customers throughout the world. All Platinum companies operate as stand-alone entities and are led by their own management teams.
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CONTACT: Lanier Healthcare Marketing Communications Group
Merideth Fulton, 770/206-1088
or
Platinum Equity
Bill Kobel, 717/703-6025
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