Siemens Enterprise Communications to Showcase Healthcare Communications Solutions and Key Partnerships at HIMSS12

RESTON, Va., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Enterprise Communications announced today that the company will exhibit at HIMSS12 (booth #3265), February 20-24, 2012 at the Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas. At the show, Siemens Enterprise Communications will demonstrate its leading unified communications (UC) technology and OpenScape Health Station, designed to work together to improve the patient experience, streamline clinical workflow, and help healthcare organizations deliver better patient care.

The OpenScape Health Station from Siemens Enterprise Communications delivers a variety of applications designed for both patient and clinician. It provides patients with easy access to games, movies, music, the Internet, a telephone and educational videos at the beside. Clinicians can use the same device for adding beside documentation to any EMR platform, and it can allow for single-sign on badge swipe and a barcode reader for medication administration. Integrated two-way video conferencing provides an entry point to telemedicine and remote healthcare through video a growing trend in healthcare. These features can help hospitals improve their Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores and remain competitive.

Booth visitors can view demonstrations of the OpenScape Health Station as well as OpenScape Xpert, which can integrate communication for first responders; OpenScape Contact Center, for providing proactive outreach for patient appointment reminders or surveys; and Siemens Enterprise Communications' award-winning UC solution, OpenScape Voice. OpenScape Voice helps hospitals reduce CapEx and OpEx by seamlessly integrating with existing data center infrastructure and providing the scalability, resiliency and application integration that healthcare organizations require as mobility becomes standard.

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About Siemens Enterprise Communications

Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based unified communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications includes Cycos and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications or Enterasys please visitwww.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com.

Note: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee of Siemens AG. HiPath, OpenOffice, OpenScape and OpenStage, are registered trademarks of Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. or its affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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