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To: don roberson who wrote (2359)	6/17/1998 3:30:00 PM
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Siemens announces new HEALTHCARE Intranet..... "Siemens Intranet Solution Relieves Healthcare Information Management Ills: Robust Intranet Solution Installed in 60 Days at Up to Half the Cost of Competing Offerings 12:35 p.m. Jun 17, 1998 Eastern SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- (BW HealthWire) -- June 17, 1998-- Siemens Business Communications today introduced an intranet solution designed for the healthcare industry that can be installed in 60 days and at up to 50-percent less cost than comparable offerings. The solution consists of a robust healthcare intranet architecture featuring a proactive information delivery system and web-based paging, professional and consultative services, hardware and software. It features 750 customizable categories in the site architecture, push technology to selectively provide information to those who need it, simple web authoring for both HTML and Java usage, a sophisticated browser paging tool, and open standards for easy integration with Microsoft NT-based operating platforms. Siemen's healthcare intranet is being offered initially to organizations with more than 500 employees-- which equals about 70 percent of all healthcare facilities in the U.S. The offering will be orderable on July 1st. The average system cost will be around $250,000. According to a 1998 HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems) survey, the number two issue facing healthcare executives is system and information integration. Siemen's healthcare intranet offers a unique way to solve this problem. Intranets are valuable disseminators of information in business and institutional environments. However, several inhibitors have slowed their deployment in hospitals: they can cost anywhere between $300,000 to $1,000,000 depending on their complexity; they typically take six to 12 months to install; and they require a significant commitment of human resources. In fact, Year 2000 software issues currently take precedence in healthcare MIS departments. Siemens healthcare intranet delivers patient information, research, market reports and other data to physicians, clinicians and executives via email, fax and pager. The system's web-based paging feature communicates with on-site paging systems, and local and nationwide paging services, enabling doctors, nurses or administrative staff to communicate with one-another via the intranet. The solution's hardware is backed by Siemens nationwide 24-hour-per-day, seven-day-per-week service and support infrastructure for a minimum of three years, while software support is available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Early adopters of Siemen's Healthcare intranet solution include design partners Elizabeth General Medical Center in Elizabeth, NJ, a 1,600-employee facility; and Northeast Health Systems in Beverly, Mass., which has 1,400 employees. "Siemens delivered in two months what it would have taken four full-time employees (if I had them) over a year to complete -- and I know I would have had to go back to the board and ask for more budget for a second year," said Steven A. Rector, director of information systems at Northeast Health Systems. "The pre-defined healthcare structure enables us to immediately begin loading critical information, while the open platform allows us to plan for future integration of all our systems," he added. Siemens has more than 100 years of experience in healthcare. Siemens Business Communications produces solutions that enable healthcare organizations to increase productivity and reduce operating costs through improved communications and information management. Products and solutions include telephones; voice, video and data networks; computer telephony integration; mobile communications; messaging and IVR; and intranet/internet applications. Other Siemens companies produce solutions for teleradiology, medical imaging, facilities management, patient monitoring, data warehousing, oncology, managed healthcare and home healtcare applications. For additional information about Siemens Business Communciations, call 1-800-765-6123, or visit our WorldWide Website at siemenscom.com Copyright 1998, Business Wire Contact: Siemens Business Communications Ed Rebello, 408/492-6999 Ed.rebello@siemenscom.com Mark H.