UMass Memorial and Bethesda Health Systems Choose Siemens Health IT

Two additional U.S. health systems successfully launch Soarian in their
facilities.

MALVERN, Penn., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UMass Memorial Health Care
and Bethesda Healthcare System have just signed multi-year contracts for
Soarian, Siemens' innovative, fully web-based Healthcare Information System
(HIS) that helps hospitals facilitate enterprise-wide workflows to more
efficiently meet their unique clinical, financial, and administrative
challenges.

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The new strategic agreement between Siemens and the 1,111-bed UMass Memorial
Health Care is a result of the Worcester, Ma.-based health system's strong
desire to consolidate its revenue-cycle system, enhance patient-safety
initiatives, and achieve quality improvement objectives. The seven-year deal
includes implementing Soarian Clinicals, featuring new Plan of Care
functionality, Soarian Financials, and Soarian Quality Measures, Siemens'
knowledge-driven healthcare data-mining tool that helps hospitals expedite the
submission of quality measures through automated chart abstraction. Before
inking the contract, UMass Memorial Health Care, which includes an academic
medical center and four community hospitals, was able to experience Soarian's
features and benefits firsthand through its member facility, HealthAlliance,
which already utilizes Soarian and serves as a Soarian National Showcase
Account.

South Florida's not-for-profit Bethesda Healthcare System, offering both
inpatient and ambulatory services, has just extended its 25-year relationship
with Siemens Healthcare through a new contract that includes migration to
Soarian Clinicals, Soarian Critical Care, Soarian Emergency Department,
Patient Identification Check, and Soarian Quality Measures. The new nine-year
partnership impacts some 550 Bethesda Healthcare physicians in over 30 areas
of specialty.

"Siemens is proud to be partnering with UMass Memorial Health Care and
Bethesda Healthcare System on enterprise-wide healthcare solutions," said
Janet Dillione, CEO, health services, Siemens Healthcare. "As the healthcare
industry continues to evolve and more attention is focused on realizing the
value of well-executed health IT implementations, we are pleased that Soarian
is appealing to new customers, as well as those we've partnered with for many
years. Multi-year contracts such as these demonstrate Siemens' long-standing
commitment to deliver innovative health IT technologies that support our
customers' desire to improve quality, reduce cost, and enhance efficiency in
the management and delivery of patient care."

New Soarian Installations
New York-based Sisters of Charity Hospital, part of the comprehensive Catholic
Health System (CHS), has just successfully installed Soarian Financials for
its St. Joseph Campus. The implementation represents the first New York acute
care facility and first of three CHS acute care facilities to take advantage
of the next-generation revenue-cycle software. Formed in 1998, all three CHS
hospitals have already been successfully using Soarian Clinicals to support
their efforts to continually provide care to hundreds of thousands of Western
New Yorkers.

In February, University Hospitals (UHHS) in Cleveland, OH, also brought its
Richmond Medical Center live on Soarian Financials: the fifth successful
Soarian Financials installation at the six-facility community-based health
care system, which serves patients throughout Northeastern Ohio.

Earlier this year, Siemens announced that two other U.S. healthcare facilities
signed multi-year Soarian contracts, and that an additional facility signed a
multi-year contract for both Soarian and MedSeries4(R), Siemens' fully
web-based HIS designed to meet the unique needs of community hospitals.

The Siemens Healthcare Sector 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 is the first integrated healthcare 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.
Additionally, Siemens Healthcare is the global market leader in innovative
hearing instruments. The company employs around 49,000 people worldwide and
operates in 130 countries. In the fiscal year 2008 (Sept. 30), Siemens
Healthcare reported sales of Euro 11.2 billion, orders of Euro 11.8 billion,
and Sector profit of Euro 1.2 billion. Further information can be found by
visiting http://www.siemens.com/healthcare.

SOURCE Siemens Healthcare

Gian Sachdev, Media Relations of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.,
+1-610-448-3024, or gian.sachdev@siemens.com