MALVERN, Pa. - Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) has announced that INVISION® Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check™ V24.0 has achieved full CCHIT Certified® status from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT®) and meets CCHIT's inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. Inpatient EHRs are designed for use in acute care hospitals.

Siemens received pre-market, conditionally certified status from CCHIT last week for INVISION Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check™ V24.0 and received confirmation from CCHIT this week on the product's now full CCHIT Certified status, as its operational use in a hospital site has been verified. CCHIT - an independent, nonprofit organization - is the Recognized Certification Body in the United States for certifying health information technology products.

In addition to meeting foundation standards such as security, certified inpatient products are examined for clinician order entry (often called CPOE) and medication administration capabilities (often called eMAR), including related clinical decision support. As a CCHIT Certified product, INVISION Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check V24.0 has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a set of criteria for CPOE and eMAR. Siemens also received full CCHIT Certified status for Soarian® Clinicals V2.0C5 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check™ V24.0 on December 19, 2007.
"We are proud to be the first inpatient vendor to have two CCHIT Certified products and feel that this achievement helps to demonstrate our decades of experience in the healthcare IT industry," stated Janet Dillione, chief executive officer, Health Services, Siemens Medical Solutions. "Our Soarian and INVISION solutions help many of our customers achieve positive outcomes related to patient safety and operational efficiency on a daily basis. We look forward to continuing to help our customers in delivering the highest quality of healthcare to their patients through the help of innovative healthcare IT solutions."

Siemens announced the general availability of INVISION V27.0 in December 2007 which allowed INVISION customers to take advantage of many platform, database and application upgrades that would further assist these healthcare organizations in streamlining the sharing of crucial information across clinical, financial, and administrative functions throughout the enterprise. The newest version was also updated to better support patient safety initiatives by offering enhanced allergy information designed to improve clinical checking.

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