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Leading Healthcare Institutions Embrace Technology That Enables Free Flow

of Patient Documentation Throughout the Enterprise

MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Medical Solutions (http://www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) is fulfilling the demand for a workflow-oriented, patient-centric approach to healthcare with its Enterprise Document Management (EDM) and Soarian(R) Healthcare Information Management (HIM) solutions, which are helping healthcare institutions enhance patient care, improve patient safety initiatives, and reduce healthcare costs. Leading healthcare organizations, like many of those which will be participating in this year's 79th Annual American Health and Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit, have adopted these solutions as a means to assist in streamlining patient data and making information readily available to those in the organizations who need it most.

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"Administrative tasks can be burdensome to healthcare organizations and can sometimes impede upon delivery of care," said Janet Dillione, president, Health Services, the Healthcare IT Division of Siemens Medical Solutions. "Our solutions are designed with a strong workflow orientation and allow for immediate access to crucial patient data throughout the enterprise."

Accessible from any location, EDM and Soarian HIM coordinate processes within and between departments, as well as tasks between users. With their Web-based intuitive user interfaces, the solutions host concurrent and multi- user access, helping to eliminate multiple trips by clinicians and patient financial services staff to the HIM department to access patient data. When patient charts are virtual, costs and time associated with c
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