Siemens and Health Patterns Jointly Announces Agreement for Data Synchronization Software

Business Wire, Sept 7, 2001

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MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2001

Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation (NYSE: SI), the worldwide leading provider of information solutions for the health industry, announced today an agreement with Health Patterns, L.L.C.

Under the terms of the agreement Siemens will incorporate Health Patterns' state-of-the-art Master Files Manager(TM), into new products.

Master Files Manager provides a single point of control over master file updates, eliminating the need for redundant manual entry of master file data in each application. In announcing the agreement, Janet Dillione, vice president, Financial Systems, Siemens Health Services, touted the increased efficiency the solution will offer Siemens healthcare customers, "Master File Manager will support the mission-critical need to integrate data and applications across the healthcare enterprise. Siemens is moving forward with our plan to embed Master Files Manager as we bring new products to market."

Health Patterns President Wayne Tracy describes the Master Files Manager software as a "unique integration tool for synchronizing underlying master file content across a network of healthcare applications. We believe that it will help healthcare organizations to improve data quality and efficiency of operations."

About Siemens

Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany, is one of the largest suppliers of medical technologies in the world, offering complete integrated solutions comprising innovative medical devices, advanced information technology as well as consulting services that increase efficiency of the healthcare system while improving the quality of care to patients worldwide. Siemens Medical Solutions develops and manufactures a broad range of medical equipment including imaging systems for diagnostics, radiation therapy equipment for treatment, audiological products, life support and patient monitoring systems, anesthesia equipment and information technology solutions. Employing 28,000 worldwide, in fiscal 1999/2000, the Company reported new orders of 5.3 billion Euro and sales of 5.1 billion Euro. For more information visit www.siemensmedical.com.

An integrated part of Siemens Medical Solutions Based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation offers a broad range of clinical, financial, and management applications and outsourcing and professional services to support health providers across the continuum of care. The company operates the health industry's largest Information Services Center (ISC) and Health Information Network for application hosting, e-commerce, enterprise systems management, and managed Internet and infrastructure services. As the premier Application Service Provider (ASP) in healthcare, the company operates health applications for over 1,000 health providers with connections to over 500,000 customer workstations, and processes 95 million transactions each day. More information can be found at www.smed.com.

About Health Patterns L.L.C.

Health Patterns, Chicago, Illinois, is a provider of integration tools for the synchronization of data across disparate technologies and applications in a web- enabled environment. Health Patterns' core application technologies included in MFM are a user-extensible database, a database design tool, a user extensible web browser-based data entry client, a business rules editor, and a data mapping and transformation component. MFM is a Windows NT/Windows 2000 Advanced Server application. The easy-to-use GUI advances the user through the steps needed to design and create a new database and automatically generates the Java-based platform independent input screen. The other components of MFM step through building business rules for data validation and transaction routing across multiple applications, reformatted to match each receiving application through the data mapping and transformation utilities. More information can be found at www.healthpatterns.com.

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