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Siemens to Deliver Enterprisewide Health Information System for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

Thursday, September 13, 2007 General News
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MALVERN, Pa., Sept. 12 Texas Scottish RiteHospital for Children (TSRHC) in Dallas has become the latest hospital to signwith Siemens Medical Solutions (www.usa.siemens.com/medical) to implement thefunctionally rich MedSeries4(R) health information system (HIS), which wasdesigned specifically to support rural and community healthcare providers intheir IT adoption efforts.
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The system is expected to be implemented in early 2008 and includessolutions for patient care and enterprise resource management, as well aslaboratory, pharmacy, radiology and document management systems. The SiemensIT systems to be installed for these solutions include MedSeries4(R),NOVIUS(R) Lab, Siemens Pharmacy, syngo(R) Workflow, Enterprise DocumentManagement and Siemens OPENLink(TM) respectively.
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MedSeries4 is expected to help TSRHC deliver state-of-the-artfunctionality, including browser-based workflow for clinicians, whileproviding a cost-effective solution that enhances the hospital's patientsafety initiatives and enables easier access to patient information forphysicians and staff.

"MedSeries4 addresses both our department-specific and interdisciplinaryneeds, eliminates redundant activities, and enables streamlined coordinationof care processes, all while being a very easy system for our staff to use,"said Hunt Gregg, director of information systems at Texas Scottish RiteHospital for Children. "We also anticipate that MedSeries4 will help us tomove toward our long-term goal of creating an electronic health record for useand reference by physicians and staff in the inpatient and outpatient clinicalsettings."

"It was very important to our clinical team evaluating MedSeries4 tochoose a system that provides satisfactory functionality and strong supportservices, and this system fits those criteria," Gregg added.

The MedSeries4 Clinical Suite provides the flexibility needed to tailorthe implementation for the unique business needs of TSRHC. MedSeries4 clinicalapplications will lay the groundwork for computerized physician order entry(CPOE) and an electronic health record (EHR). Through the MedSeries4 ClinicalSuite, medical staff at TSRHC will be able to readily access a current,integrated view of patient data from any Internet connection or wirelesshandheld device. Medical staff will also be able to utilize functionality inmedication ordering and medication administration.

"The fact that facilities like Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Childrencontinue to embrace MedSeries4 demonstrates that the need for advanced ITsolutions is not limited to larger healthcare systems," said Janet Dillione,president, Health Services, the Healthcare IT Division of Siemens MedicalSolutions. "The cost-effectiveness of MedSeries4 gives specialty facilities,like Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, the ability to invest in theirhealth information technology infrastructure, while complying with the budgetof a nonprofit, specialty hospital."

MedSeries4 is installed in more than 425 community hospital facilities,from small single facilities to large multi-entity enterprises, many of whichwere represented at the 2007 MedSeries4 Vision Conference held in Salt LakeCity in April. The Vision User Group is guided by a board of directorscomprised of individuals directly employed by hospitals using MedSeries4software to further ongoing product development and successful implementationof the software.

About Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children:

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is one of the nation's leadingpediatric centers for the treatment of orthopedic conditions, certain relatedneurological disorders and learning disorders, such as dyslexia. There is nocharge to patient families for treatment at the hospital, and admission isopen to Texas children from bi
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