PHS - Portable Health Solutions

23/04/2026

To celebrate and the impact of how ideas can be communicated through books, this quote from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" seems especially poignant - and prophetic - thirty years later:

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
..We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements - transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting - profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

Wow! What are you reading to celebrate World Book Day?

22/04/2026

Did you know? The first Earth Day in 1970 drew 20 million Americans into the streets in protest of environmental degradation, which became the catalyst for the Endangered Species, Clean Water, and Clean Air Acts, as well as the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). It is now the largest singular global civic event across 192 countries. What do you do to make every day Earth Day?

19/04/2026

We like to pause for a moment on April 19th of every year to celebrate the legacy of our founder, Lala K. Davis, RT, who carried PHS through those first difficult years as the little portable imaging provider that could. She put patients and employees first, completely different from the mega corps. Her example carries on today, and that has made all the difference.

07/04/2026

Today is through the World Health Organization with a call to action. Though no longer a member, we can still review the prior annual to US citizens.

Without coordination, outbreaks of disease, illness, and unnecessary death can lead to:

- Export harm: Billions of dollars in decreased demand for US goods due to potentially uncontained outbreaks (In an NIH study, a 9-country uncontained outbreak that never entered the US would lead to an $18 billion drop in US exports)

- Job losses due to harm of export activity (in the same NIH study, 1.4 million US jobs related to exports would be at risk)

- Inflation due to supply chain shocks (even outbreaks near foreign ports lead to an amplified ripple effect).

- Illness & caregiving reduce global productivity, slowing outputs that affect US companies relying on it.

Here is what the US received when we were a member:

+ A $54 return for every $1 spent on global vaccinations. Caregiving costs, hospital bills, and disposable income to buy US goods.

+ A $16 return for every $1 spent on crisis prevention using a central body like to coordinate response, information, action and avoidance of harm to US shores.

+A $7 return for every $1 spent on treatment of chronic disease, with higher productivity and longer health spans of global workers.

We paid mandatory annual dues of $111 million (average), or 32 cents per US citizen. Each US citizen saw an ROI of $2.80, before the home-shore rebate of public health R&D going to US jobs and studies and then deployed to the global network. Also before the inflation avoidance that global outbreaks can bring (25% of US inflation in 2021-2022 was tied to global supply chain issues); the last two are $1.60 for a total of $4.40.

For 32 cents, a $2.80 ROI per citizen at minimum, or 775%.

For 32 cents, a $4.40 ROI per citizen at maximum, or 1,275%.

Wow! It paid to . What do you think?

24/03/2026

We serve many rural and vulnerable patients with rapid deployment of portable x-ray imaging services to assist in faster detection and treatment initiation. As the US sees rising rates - including the largest outbreak since CDC records began in the 1950s just two years ago in Kansas - the logistics of rapid portable imaging are more important than ever. We are ready, as ever, to contribute to the public health cause!

17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀🇮🇪

14/03/2026

Happy National Pi Day! TIL the earliest adopters of Pi, Babylon and Egypt, began using it at almost the exact same time nearly 4,000 years ago, though Babylon's estimate was slightly more accurate.

12/03/2026

For your trust, feedback, collaboration, and communication, thank you for not only allowing us to serve your residents, but helping us to always refine and sharpen our portable imaging service over these 33 years for the benefit of those you serve and the care teams you lead. Thank you!

08/03/2026

Today we celebrate International Women's Day; this year's theme of gets to the very existence of and what it means to say that when women thrive, we all rise:

First, Marie Curie's invention of portable x-ray and the lives (and limbs) saved by it in WWI would NOT have happened without a group of women acting as benefactors for her to get the vans and equipment. Despite her well-known background by that point, the male-dominated army rejected her plan because she was female, not on the merits of what portable x-ray could do for the soldiers they were charged with leading...and protecting and serving when wounded.

Second, the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 finally - FINALLY - gave a woman the right to secure business loans and financing without the co-signature of a male relative. 1988! This helped set the stage for entrepreneurs like Lala K. Davis, founder of PHS, to start their own businesses and deliver the kind of local, quality care that patients deserve.

And here we are today, because women's advancement and empowerment just in our pocket of society has led to countless positive outcomes and opportunities for us to then pass along to others, a truly compounding effect for the advancement of society.

25/02/2026

PHS continues series with a brief overview of DVT, Deep Vein Thrombosis: "This condition symbolizes why a clinically-trained, licensed sonographer performing the portable Duplex scan for your patient is mission critical. Time is of the essence...and so is the expertise of the sonographer." When it comes to a patient's heart health outcomes and the threat of pulmonary embolism, 3-4 week delays in imaging and sending unlicensed, freshly-graduated sonographers to image them is just not the way.

DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis): One diagnosis option is a timely portable Duplex scan by a licensed, clinically-trained PHS sonographer.

20/02/2026

We'd like to extend our deepest gratitude to caregivers - professional, family, informal - and their daily sacrifice to provide essential care to loved ones and other members of our communities. Thank you.

20/02/2026

33 trips around the Sun. To celebrate, we have some exciting rollouts coming. Just keep it between us for now 🤫

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