Seattle, WA-- Siemens Healthcare is showcasing a comprehensive portfolio of financial solutions at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Healthcare Finance Conference 2009, Seattle, WA, June 14-17 (booths #1619, 1621) as part of its commitment to help providers achieve higher operational efficiency, financial excellence, and overcome a challenging economic climate.

On display this year are Soarian Financials, Soarian Quality Measures, and Siemens Financial Services, Inc. (SFS Inc.), together providing innovative tools that enable customers to focus on streamlining their revenue cycle workflow and quality-improvement processes, as well as securing funding for important projects and purchases.

"At Siemens, we understand the challenges that healthcare financial professionals face in financing the delivery of cost-effective healthcare in an increasingly complex economic and regulatory environment," explains Mitch Icenhower, senior director, Business Management, Health Services, Siemens Healthcare. "We are pleased to support provider organizations through the educational programs offered by HFMA and through our commitment to providing health IT solutions designed to address current and future challenges posed by market-driven and government-mandated initiatives."

- Soarian Financials, an enterprise-wide Health IT solution, represents the latest in revenue-cycle innovation, going beyond traditional patient management, patient accounting, and practice management systems by embedding core functionality that includes a contract engine, an enterprise-wide master person index, a claims engine and editor, business analytics, and denial management. The workflow-oriented solution helps providers streamline their revenue cycle management, maximize revenue realization, and support provider initiatives to enhance the patient experience. Recent enhancements to its comprehensive claims management component include additional industry-leading edits to further promote clean claims processing and accelerated cash collection, while reducing providers' reliance on third-party claims solutions.
-Soarian Quality Measures is a knowledge-driven healthcare data-mining tool, enabled by the REMIND(Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured Data) Platform. The solution supports healthcare providers' goals to streamline their quality improvement process by automating chart abstraction and helping expedite the submission of quality measures, as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission.

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