Stanford SKOLAR and Siemens Announce Licensing Agreement to Integrate SKOLAR MD into Siemens Medical Solutions' Services

Business Wire, July 30, 2002

Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--July 30, 2002

Siemens to offer its customers Stanford SKOLAR MD at

the point of care and beyond

SKOLAR, an Internet knowledge service provider and Stanford University's first supported Internet spin-off, announces a licensing agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions, the healthcare industry's leading supplier of information technology solutions, to bring SKOLAR's respected online medical content to healthcare providers at the point of care. Access to SKOLAR's services will help Siemens customers enhance patient care and continue to improve their workflow by providing access to up-to-the-minute reference sources and medical news when and where they need it.

Under terms of the agreement, Siemens will offer its customers online access to Stanford SKOLAR MD. Built for physicians, Stanford SKOLAR MD provides immediate online access to authoritative, trusted medical professional and patient-oriented references with a single search. Physicians can earn continuing medical education (CME) credit for utilizing these resources in the context of patient care. Siemens customers will be able to access these critical information resources via direct Internet connection, wireless Siemens tablet devices, or via an integrated link on the Siemens Health Enterprise Dashboard.

"SKOLAR's technology enables physicians to quickly access a wide range of clinical resources that can inform and enhance patient care," states Kelley Skeff, MD, PhD, the company's consulting Chief Medical Officer. "Our agreement with Siemens is an important step in providing integrated access to high quality medical information on the physician's desktop."

"STANFORD SKOLAR MD will allow the physician to quickly search a broad range of information from medical literature as well as from other references while at the point of care," says Donald Rucker, MD, Siemens Chief Medical Officer. "The ability to automatically earn continuing medical education (CME) credit while using SKOLAR is unique."

"Our agreement with SKOLAR underscores Siemens' commitment to offer highly-valued solutions to our customers and their professionals," adds Rick Pettine, eHealth Business Development Manager for Siemens. "Stanford SKOLAR MD complements our suite of Web-based tools providing health information where and when it is needed via the Health Enterprise Dashboard, a SIMpad tablet computer, a workstation, or home PC."

About Siemens

Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) with headquarters in Iselin, NJ and Erlangen, Germany, is one of the largest suppliers to the healthcare industry in the world. The company is renowned for its innovative products, including imaging systems for diagnosis, therapy equipment for treatment, hearing instruments, and critical care and life support systems, as well as a wide array of information technology and data management solutions that optimize workflow and increase efficiency in hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices. The company is known as the premiere health information application service provider processing more than 116 million transactions daily and managing more than 67 terabytes of data -- twice the information volume of the Library of Congress. Employing approximately 30,000 people worldwide, the company reported sales of 7.2 billion EUR, orders of 8.4 billion EUR and EBITA of 808 million EUR in fiscal 2001 (September 30). More information can be obtained by visiting us on the Web at www.siemensmedical.com.

Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich, is a leading global electronics and engineering company. It employs some 450,000 in 193 countries, and reported worldwide sales of more than $74 billion in fiscal 2001 (10/1/00 - 9/30/01). The United States is Siemens' largest market, with nearly 80,000 employees and sales of $18.9 billion for fiscal 2001. For more information about Siemens in the U.S., visit www.usa.siemens.com

About SKOLAR

SKOLAR is Stanford University's first supported Internet spin-off. SKOLAR'S flagship product Stanford SKOLAR MD was developed and is used by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford SKOLAR MD delivers integrated searches across multiple, trusted reference sources, giving physicians a superior information resource at the point-of-practice to support clinical decision-making. Stanford SKOLAR MD is the first AMA approved program of Physician initiated in-context learning. For more information visit www.skolar.com.