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Stock News Bot Date: January 9, 2007 06:00:00 AM
SI News Virginia Hospital Center Signs with Siemens for Soarian Health Information Solution
ARLINGTON, Va. & MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virginia Hospital Center joins a growing number of medical facilities
utilizing advanced information technologies (IT) to create efficiencies
and orchestrate clinical best practices by signing an agreement with
Siemens Medical Solutions to implement its workflow-engineered health
information solution, Soarian®.
The implementation of Soarian places Virginia Hospital Center at the
forefront of the national movement toward utilizing advanced IT to build
a nationwide health information infrastructure and supports its effort
to receive Magnet Hospital designation from the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC). Soarian’s unique
workflow management tools will enable Virginia Hospital Center to
re-engineer processes throughout the entire healthcare continuum to help
drive organizational efficiencies, address patient safety initiatives
and enhance clinical decision-making. By managing and synchronizing
information across the entire enterprise, Soarian not only coordinates
the complex processes of healthcare, it anticipates them by intuitively
delivering information when and where it’s
needed most.
”Virginia Hospital Center is excited about our
partnership with Siemens and the implementation of this new,
market-leading platform that will improve patient safety and process
efficiency. This advanced hospital information system will have
far-reaching benefits for our patients, physicians and hospital staff,”
said David Crutchfield, chief information officer, Virginia Hospital
Center. “This system is a perfect match to the
sophisticated medical expertise currently in place at Virginia Hospital
Center.”
The 334-bed private teaching and research hospital will deploy Soarian’s
clinical, financial, scheduling, portal and health information
management (HIM) applications, as well as a number of ancillary
applications that support the hospital’s
efforts to ensure patient safety and a positive patient experience at
every touchpoint with the hospital. Siemens Med Administration Check™,
which utilizes point-of-care barcode technology to seamlessly validate
and document the medication administration process, will alert Virginia
Hospital Center nurses immediately to allergic and drug interactions and
potential errors. Additionally, Soarian Community Access will enable
connectivity between physicians, hospital staff and patients through a
secure Web-based application and messaging system.
Virginia Hospital Center will also implement Siemens Pharmacy,
Enterprise Document Management, Siemens OPENLink™,
as well as clinical specialty modules that include Soarian Cardiology
and Soarian Critical Care.
“We look forward to bringing Soarian to
Virginia Hospital Center to help optimize the complex processes of
healthcare to improve the experience of both the medical team and
patients,” said Janet Dillione, president,
Healthcare IT Division, Siemens Medical Solutions. “We
will work closely with Virginia Hospital Center to make vital
information accessible any time, anywhere, to help expedite care
delivery, improve patient safety, and remove administrative burdens from
physicians and other decision-makers.”
To help Virginia Hospital Center maximize its technology investment,
Siemens will provide end-user education to improve the skills,
knowledge, and productivity of hospital staff, while providing tools to
navigate government regulations, evolving technology, and advancements
in healthcare processes.
Soarian combines clinical, financial and administrative processes to
support patient-centered care. The solution is distinguished by three
innovative characteristics: it manages processes and best practices
across the enterprise through workflow management tools; it enables
improved ease of use and faster training via a smart user interface; and
its integrated embedded analytics help to manage and measure the events
and activities of the organization. Additionally, 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.
About Siemens Medical Solutions
Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the world’s
largest suppliers to the healthcare industry. 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. Recent acquisitions in the area of in-vitro diagnostics –
such as Diagnostic Products Corporation –
mark a significant milestone for Siemens as it becomes the first full
service diagnostics company. Employing approximately 36,000 people
worldwide and operating in more than 130 countries, Siemens Medical
Solutions reported sales of 8.23 billion EUR, orders of 9.33 billion EUR
and group profit of 1.06 billion EUR for fiscal 2006. Further
information can be found by visiting www.usa.siemens.com/medical-pressroom.
About Virginia Hospital Center
For over 60 years, Virginia Hospital Center has provided exceptional
medical services to the Washington metropolitan area. Virginia Hospital
Center’s new $150 million state-of-the-art
facility offers comprehensive healthcare and multiple Centers of
Excellence including Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery, Neuroscience,
Oncology, Women & Infant Health and Urology. Growing service lines
include Executive Health and the only Lung Cancer Center in Northern
Virginia. Virginia Hospital Center is a teaching hospital,
long-associated with Georgetown University’s
School of Medicine, and accredited by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Licensed by the
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health. For additional
information, please visit www.virginiahospitalcenter.com.
