-- Soarian Community Access, which enables healthcare providers to reach outside the walls of their organizations to securely connect with patients and other members of the healthcare community, such as hospitals, physicians and ancillary providers - helping to build physician affinity, increase efficiency and streamline communications. Patients can create a personal health record, request appointments, referrals or prescription refills, or view clinical information such as lab results, electrocardiograms and radiology reports online.

-- NextGen(R) EMR, which addresses the unique healthcare IT needs of the physician practice market. Siemens and NextGen Healthcare are leading the way in connecting acute and ambulatory care environments by providing interoperability between IT solutions, enabling healthcare providers to make more informed decisions. The relationship leverages Siemens' expertise in enterprise IT systems and advanced medical imaging technologies for the acute care and specialty environments and NextGen Healthcare's leadership in ambulatory electronic medical records. Meeting providers' inpatient and outpatient needs, the Siemens/NextGen alliance provides access to longitudinal health records, streamlined processes across care settings, and opportunities for enhanced patient safety, physician satisfaction and increased procedure volume.


In addition to Soarian Disease Management, Soarian Community Access and the NextGen EMR, Siemens showcased other key EHR solution components at TEPR, including its Soarian, INVISION(R) and MedSeries4(R) clinical applications, Soarian Health Information Management, and Enterprise Document Management.


Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Erlangen, Germany, is one of the largest suppliers to the healthcare industry in the world. The company is known for bringing together innovative medical technologies, healthcare information systems, management consulting, and support services, to help customers achieve tangible, sustainable, clinical and financial outcomes. Employing approximately 33,000 people worldwide and operating in more than 120 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions reported sales of 7.6 billion EUR, orders of 8.6 billion EUR and group profit of 976 million EUR for fiscal 2005. More information can be obtained by visiting www.usa.siemens.com/medical-pressroom.


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