Siemens Customers Innovate Their Clinical and Financial Workflows with Help from Soarian
November 19 2007 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Medical Solutions
(http://www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) continues to help
hospitals and healthcare systems innovate their clinical and
financial workflows through Soarian(R), its next-generation,
workflow-engineered healthcare information system. At the 93rd
Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA) from Nov. 25 to 30 at McCormick Place in
Chicago (Booth #7713, Hall B), Siemens will showcase the many
benefits Soarian can bring to healthcare facilities across the
globe. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO ) Soarian
combines clinical, financial and operational processes to support
patient-centered care. By streamlining access to images and data
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. In addition to helping streamline critical
information across clinical, financial and administrative
functions, Soarian is assisting many healthcare organizations in
improving workflow and patient safety. Last year, CentraState
Healthcare System, a not-for-profit, 272-bed medical facility
located in Freehold, N.J., embarked on a project to develop metrics
and document and validate workflow outcomes in specific areas that
would result from the use of Soarian. The project included a focus
on reducing nosocomial pressure ulcer rates. Implementation of the
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Workflow, driven by Soarian, enabled the
CentraState nursing team to automate several key process steps and
helped reduce the prevalence of nosocomial pressure ulcers in one
year from a pre-workflow rate of 4.93 percent to a post-workflow
rate of 1.80 percent. "Soarian has provided us with the support we
needed to drive process improvements across our organization,"
explained Indranil Ganguly, vice president and chief information
officer for CentraState Healthcare system. "Siemens has served as
an invaluable partner in helping us to achieve our patient safety
goals. In addition to providing the technology solution needed to
drive our workflows, our partners at Siemens have helped us from
the beginning of our project to develop metrics to validate the
outcomes generated from our new workflows." In addition to its
nosocomial pressure ulcer prevention workflow, CentraState has
eight other workflows live at its facility, including IV restart,
fall risk assessment and fall prevention, and heparin protocol.
CentraState anticipates these workflows will help create greater
efficiencies for its staff members and an increase in quality of
care delivered to all patients, and plans to implement many more
patient safety-focused workflows in the future. "It is evident
today that information technology is transforming the healthcare
industry and helping healthcare providers meet industry-driven
quality-of-care benchmarks and standards," explained Janet
Dillione, president, Health Services, Siemens Medical Solutions
Healthcare IT Division. "With Soarian and its powerful workflow
engine, healthcare organizations are now able to optimize outcomes
and increase efficiency by establishing consistent enterprise-wide
processes that drive clinical and financial success." Today,
Soarian-driven workflows are being deployed globally to support key
quality and regulatory initiatives such as those defined by Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Joint Commission (JC)
Core Measures, key objectives of the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement's (IHI) Five Million Lives Campaign, and providers' own
internal quality measures. Currently, more than 100 Soarian-enabled
workflows are live across the Siemens global customer base,
demonstrating the ability to seamlessly connect clinical,
operational, and financial processes in support of patient-centered
care. About Siemens Medical Solutions Siemens Medical Solutions is
one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry.
The company is a renowned medical solutions provider with core
competence and innovative strength in diagnostic and therapeutic
technologies as well as in knowledge engineering, including
information technology and system integration. With its laboratory
diagnostics acquisitions, Siemens Medical Solutions will be the
first fully integrated diagnostics company, bringing together
imaging and lab diagnostics, therapy, and healthcare information
technology solutions, supplemented by consulting and support
services. The company delivers solutions across the entire
continuum of care -- from prevention and early detection, to
diagnosis, therapy and care. Siemens Medical Solutions employs more
than 48,000 people worldwide and operates in 130 countries.
According to U.S. GAAP, in the fiscal year 2007 (Sept. 30), Siemens
Medical Solutions reported sales of euro 9.85 billion, orders of
euro 10.27 billion, and group profit of euro 1.32 billion
(preliminary figures, unaudited). Further information can be found
by visiting http://www.usa.siemens.com/medical.
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CONTACT: Michele Bowman, Siemens Medical Solutions,
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