ATLANTA, Mar 13, 2006 -- At this week's American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference, Siemens Medical Solutions showcased its Soarian(R) Cardiovascular Enterprise, a comprehensive healthcare information technology (IT) solution that will support the cardiovascular care continuum from admission to follow-up. This scalable solution integrates diagnostic image acquisition, image processing, and evidence-based reporting tools from syngo(R) Dynamics with Soarian(R) Cardiology to provide a single, longitudinal clinical repository that becomes a true cardiovascular electronic patient record (EPR).

"As a leader in fully uniting all cardiac information at the point of care, we are supporting clinicians with potentially life-saving details," said Tom Miller, president, Healthcare IT Division, Siemens Medical Solutions. "With Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise, Siemens advances its trendsetting strategy of delivering end-to-end IT, imaging and workflow solutions - featuring unparalleled modality and IT integration."

Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise: Revolutionizing Cardiac Care
With a complete clinical view of the patient, physicians are able to provide faster, more streamlined care. Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise enables Web-based, real-time access to information virtually anywhere, anytime while linking clinical processes such as ordering, nursing, and reporting into logical workflows. In an environment where time is critical, Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise provides a one-stop source for all relevant patient information.

"In a clinical environment where images are critical to the care of a patient, physicians need all images and data integrated within one workstation and available via a single longitudinal clinical repository," said Doug Colburn, CIO, Nebraska Heart Institute Heart Hospital. "In collaborating with Siemens to build a path to the future, Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise will help enable us to achieve our goal of total integration and completely optimized workflow."

In addition to Soarian Cardiovascular Enterprise, other healthcare IT solutions supporting the integrated continuum for cardiac care to be featured at ACC include:

-- Soarian Critical Care: An emerging solution that will address the clinical, financial, and operational workflow challenges of the critical care team by proactively integrating medical devices and information. Soarian Critical Care streamlines processes by automatically collecting data from the bedside, including patient monitors and ventilators using standards-based interfaces, to create electronic documentation and near real-time patient information.

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