MALVERN, Pa., Feb 06, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As a leading proponent of the national movement toward interoperable electronic health records (EHRs), Siemens Medical Solutions will showcase the capabilities of Soarian(R) at the 2006 Interoperability Showcase being held at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2006 Annual Conference and Exhibition, Feb. 12-16 in San Diego. The Interoperability Showcase will demonstrate the benefits of interoperable EHRs and enable attendees to experience interoperability in real-world patient care scenarios as they create and manage their own virtual health record and access it across multiple care settings within the showcase.

As Siemens next generation workflow-engineered health information solution, Soarian integrates clinical, financial, diagnostic and administrative processes to support patient-centered care. Bringing together images and data seamlessly from a variety of medical modalities in one location, Soarian helps facilitate more informed decision-making - leading to improved care delivery, increased staff satisfaction, and more efficient business practices.

The Interoperability Showcase will be designed as a HIMSS Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) to demonstrate how health information can be exchanged within a community, such as an entire city, throughout a single state or across multiple states. The clinical scenarios will be enabled by the standards-based Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework, demonstrating how companies like Siemens incorporate interoperability into their products.
Siemens will demonstrate the following capabilities at the 2006 Showcase:

-- Support of the XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing) profile, designed to enable information sharing among players throughout the RHIO

-- Support for PIX (patient identification cross reference), designed to help healthcare partners locate patient records in a RHIO

-- Support for ATNA (audit trail and node authentication), designed to address security and patient privacy requirements in a RHIO

-- Support for the CT (consistent time) profile, designed to help ensure that data timestamps are consistent across systems in the RHIO

Separate theaters, or presentation areas, will be located within the Interoperability Showcase featuring educational sessions on IHE, issues and insights from industry leaders - including Siemens experts, RHIO activities, federal agency interoperability initiatives, and standards development programs. Attendees will also be able to visit select vendor exhibits to access their personal health records and see how vendors incorporate IHE - and thus interoperability - into their products.

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