Siemens Announces General Availability of Soarian Quality Measures
February 26 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Reading Hospital Experiences 300+ Percent Efficiency Improvement
Through Adoption of New Healthcare Data-Mining Technology ORLANDO,
Fla., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens
(http://www.siemens.com/healthcare) today announced the general
availability of its healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian(R) Quality
Measures powered by the patented, award-winning REMIND(TM)
(Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured
Data) Platform, at the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition in
Orlando. Soarian Quality Measures replaces time-consuming manual
chart reviews with highly accurate and automated chart abstraction
of quality measures, as defined by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO ) Soarian
Quality Measures helps healthcare providers with performance
improvement and meet their quality reporting obligations by
automating the abstraction process, reducing abstraction times and
delivering consistent results. The solution analyzes and draws
conclusions from all available electronic patient data from both
Siemens and non-Siemens information technology (IT) systems,
including structured data, such as demographics and financial
information, and unstructured free text found in clinical notes and
transcribed reports. The results of the analysis are presented in a
simple, intuitive interface allowing the abstractor to quickly
review and validate the results. "This innovative solution serves
as a key product in our growing portfolio of knowledge-driven
technologies to help improve the quality and efficiency of
healthcare delivery," stated Ajit Singh, Ph.D., CEO, Image and
Knowledge Management business unit, Siemens Healthcare. "Soarian
Quality Measures provides unprecedented intelligence to healthcare
providers, allowing them to focus more on helping their patients
rather than collecting data." The Reading Hospital and Medical
Center, an 800-bed not-for-profit healthcare center located in West
Reading, Pa., joined the growing list of medical facilities using
advanced decision support technology to create efficiencies and
orchestrate clinical best practices when it signed up to serve as
one of Siemens customer beta sites for Soarian Quality Measures in
2007. Prior to implementing the solution, Reading Hospital manually
abstracted patient records to extract core measure information.
After implementation of Soarian Quality Measures, the time required
to review and extract core measures was reduced dramatically. After
just one month of use, the average time required to review heart
failure patients went from over 22 minutes per chart to just under
7 minutes (332 percent improvement), and acute myocardial
infarction record reviews went from over 33 minutes per chart to
just over 10 minutes a chart (331 percent improvement)*. "Soarian
Quality Measures further reduces the dependency on manual chart
abstraction, while improving the accuracy and speed of
abstraction," said Jay Raman, chief information officer, Reading
Hospital. "The automated solution is extremely beneficial in
accurately capturing the acuity of care." Reading Hospital
initially volunteered to participate in the Soarian Quality
Measures customer beta program due to its own organizational
quality measures improvement goals, and its successful,
long-standing relationship with Siemens. A customer of Siemens for
more than two decades, Reading Hospital sets patient safety and
quality of care as its top priorities and leverages technologies
from Siemens, such as revenue cycle management, computerized
physician order entry, medication administration, and pharmacy
solutions, to help meet its goals. * Results at other organizations
may vary. Siemens has data supporting these outcomes on file. About
Siemens Healthcare Siemens Healthcare 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
Healthcare 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. Siemens Healthcare delivers
solutions across the entire continuum of care -- from prevention
and early detection, to diagnosis, therapy and care. The company
employs more than 49,000 people worldwide and operates in 130
countries. In the fiscal year 2007 (Sept. 30), Siemens Healthcare
reported sales of euro 9.85 billion (on a pro forma basis including
Dade Behring roughly euro 11 billion), orders of euro 10.27
billion, and group profit of euro 1.32 billion. Further information
can be found by visiting http://www.siemens.com/healthcare.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Siemens Healthcare CONTACT:
Michele Bowman of Siemens Healthcare, +1-610-448-3236, Web site:
http://www.siemens.com/healthcare
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