Five providers tap Siemens for meaningful use

Five U.S.-based providers have signed with Siemens to implement a host of Soarian web-based clinical and financial health information systems.

The IT adoptions are aimed, in part, at the hospitals’ goals to achieve meaningful use of EHRs under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Erlangen, Germany-based Siemens Healthcare said.

The contracts with Siemens include:

  • Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System, in Amarillo, Texas, which will implement Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Financials, as well as the clinical decision support tools NextGen EHR and EPM.
  • A move from paper-based records to Soarian Clinicals EMR by Children’s Hospital, New Orleans.
  • The implementation of Soarian’s full suite of revenue cycle products, which will automate the patient access, revenue cycles and medical records departments of MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and Waterville, Maine.
  • Siemens’ remote hosting of Siemens Pharmacy and Med Administration Check systems for Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y.
  • The adoption of Invision and Med Administration Check by Touro Infirmary in New Orleans to achieve meaningful use.

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