Siemens Receives CCHIT Certification for INVISION Clinicals With Siemens Pharmacy...

Siemens Receives CCHIT Certification for INVISION Clinicals With Siemens
Pharmacy and Med Administration Check
System Fulfills 100 Percent of Inpatient Certification Criteria

MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Medical Solutions
USA, Inc. (www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) today announced that INVISION(R)
Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check(TM)
V24.0 has achieved full CCHIT Certified(R) status from the Certification
Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT(R)) and meets CCHIT's
inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. Inpatient EHRs are
designed for use in acute care hospitals.
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Siemens received pre-market, conditionally certified status from CCHIT
last week for INVISION Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med
Administration Check(TM) V24.0 and received confirmation from CCHIT this week
on the product's now full CCHIT Certified status, as its operational use in a
hospital site has been verified. CCHIT -- an independent, nonprofit
organization -- is the Recognized Certification Body in the United States for
certifying health information technology products.
In addition to meeting foundation standards such as security, certified
inpatient products are examined for clinician order entry (often called CPOE)
and medication administration capabilities (often called eMAR), including
related clinical decision support. As a CCHIT Certified product, INVISION
Clinicals V27.0 with Siemens Pharmacy V24.0 and Med Administration Check V24.0
has been tested and passed inspection of 100 percent of a set of criteria for
CPOE and eMAR. Siemens also received full CCHIT Certified status for
Soarian(R) Clinicals V2.0C5 with Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration
Check(TM) V24.0 on December 19, 2007.
"We are proud to be the first inpatient vendor to have two CCHIT Certified
products and feel that this achievement helps to demonstrate our decades of
experience in the healthcare IT industry," stated Janet Dillione, chief
executive officer, Health Services, Siemens Medical Solutions. "Our Soarian
and INVISION solutions help many of our customers achieve positive outcomes
related to patient safety and operational efficiency on a daily basis. We look
forward to continuing to help our customers in delivering the highest quality
of healthcare to their patients through the help of innovative healthcare IT
solutions."
Siemens announced the general availability of INVISION V27.0 in December
2007 which allowed INVISION customers to take advantage of many platform,
database and application upgrades that would further assist these healthcare
organizations in streamlining the sharing of crucial information across
clinical, financial, and administrative functions throughout the enterprise.
The newest version was also updated to better support patient safety
initiatives by offering enhanced allergy information designed to improve
clinical checking.
The CCHIT Certified mark -- a "seal of approval" for EHR products --
provides the first consensus-based, government-recognized benchmark for
inpatient EHR products. By looking to products with the CCHIT Certified seal,
acute care providers can reduce their risk in selecting EHR products for CPOE
and eMAR.
CCHIT's certification compliance criteria and its design for a
certification inspection process have been thoroughly researched, taking into
account the state of the art of EHRs and available standards, and comparing
certification processes in other industries and other countries.
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, orders of euro 10.27 billion, and
group profit of euro 1.32 billion. Further information can be found by
visiting www.siemens.com/healthcare.
About CCHIT
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
(CCHIT(R)) is an independent, nonprofit organization that has been named by
the federal government as the Recognized Certification Body for health
information technology. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of health
information technology by creating a credible, sustainable certification
program. The certification requirements are based on widely accepted industry
standards and involve the work of hundreds of expert volunteers and input from
a variety of stakeholders throughout the health care industry. More
information on CCHIT and CCHIT Certified(R) products is available at
www.cchit.org.
"CCHIT(R)" and "CCHIT Certified(R)" are marks of the Certification
Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
SOURCE Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Michele Bowman of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., +1-610-448-3236 or
michele.bowman@siemens.com