Carousel Industries Recruits Industry Expert, Philip Wolford to support Healthcare Vertical

EXETER, R.I., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carousel Industries believes in providing our clients with the best and most innovative IT solutions, and we are continuously enhancing our services and offerings to meet our clients' demands.  In effort to support these focused initiatives, our organization has made investments in staffing top talent with specific industry backgrounds to be dedicated business resources to support our clients with their IT business portfolio.  

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We recognize the continually changing landscape of telemedicine and have made a commitment to help our customers improve overall healthcare practices such as: enhancing patient experience, patient retention, physician retention, FTE manageability, 24-hour monitoring, industry compliance, integrated patient systems, reduced network complexity, rehospitalization, consistent real-time access and secure mobile communications.   Carousel collaborates and partners with industry leading manufacturers such as Polycom, Avaya, and Juniper, to support these technology trends healthcare which increase efficiency and enhance communications.  Taking the next step to truly integrate our offerings and support within telemedicine, we are pleased to welcome Philip Wolford to be Carousel's Director of Healthcare.   

Philip joins Carousel from Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, Pennsylvania where he has been their telemedicine coordinator for the past 4 years.  Philip has implemented various policies and procedures that have improved efficiencies, reduced costs for technology departments within the telemedicine network.  Philip has a comprehensive background in telemedicine and has worked with various organizations developing and implementing solutions to ensure maximum productivity and has also has worked on the IT side creating and installing capacity management software.  He has helped hospitals reduce rehospitalizations by implementing programs that enhance the patient experience and drive the costs down to the patients.    "We are very excited to have Philip join our team as we add more business relevant resources to our staff," said James Marsh, senior vice president of sales, Carousel Industries.  "Philip's expansive experience in designing telemedicine and tele stroke programs alongside being able to identity available grants for organizations will be a great help to our clients."  As healthcare organizations incorporate collaboration solutions to improve care and reduce costs, they can rely on Carousel's expertise across a wide spectrum of technologies to craft solutions, which will directly address the healthcare industry's specific pains and develop the best practices to support each customer's unique needs.

About Carousel

Carousel Industries consults, integrates and manages technology solutions that solve business problems and contribute to your organizations' growth.  This includes unified communications, managed services, virtualization, Voice over IP (VoIP), video conferencing and collaboration and data infrastructure solutions. Since Carousel was founded in 1992 we've grown an average of 25% - 40% per year with 2012 revenues of $355 million.

Today we have over 6,000 customers, including 35 of the Fortune 100. Carousel has been recognized by both VAR and CRN Magazines as one of the top technology integrators in the US and we've been listed in the Inc. 500/5000 seven times.

Carousel is headquartered in Exeter, RI with over 1,000 employees working from offices in 30 locations across the US, including over 250 service technicians deployed across the country. For more information visit http://www.carouselindustries.com

SOURCE Carousel Industries