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Siemens And Seattle Systems Announce Joint U.S. Marketing Agreement
Oakland, CA--March 29, 1998 Seattle Systems, Inc., a leading developer of cardiovascular information management systems, and the Electromedical (EM)
Division of Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., today announced the signing of a joint U.S. marketing agreement between the two companies.
Under terms of the agreement, Seattle Systems' clinical data management system, Apollo™, will be sold in conjunction with Siemens' CATHCOR® cardiac catheterization laboratory system, providing a comprehensive method of increasing efficiency in the cardiology environment. The two products will be interfaced, allowing point-of-care management of diagnostic and therapeutic clinical data across continuum of cardiac care. Physicians will have immediate access to diagnostic information and consulting studies, and statistical analyses of procedural and cost efficiency can be determined instantly Allyn McAuley, President of Seattle Systems says: "We are delighted to be working with Siemens on this joint venture, which will significantly improve the delivery of cardiovascular healthcare."
Tim O'Malley, Vice President of Siemens EM, says: "By interfacing to the Apollo System, Siemens is able to offer integrated clinical information management tools to users of our cardiac recording system and Infinity Patient Monitoring platform."
Apollo functions as an integrating bridge, bringing together data from the centralized Hospital Information System (HIS), and diagnostic and procedural devices at the point of care. Focused on cardiovascular services and other resource-intensive specialties, Seattle Systems serves more than two hundred medical centers worldwide, including Stanford University Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. The company is privately held, with headquarters in Oakland, CA and offices in Bellevue, WA and the United Kingdom.
The Electromedical Systems Division of Siemens is one of six Siemens medical companies worldwide. The Danvers, MA site markets the company's line of patient monitoring, life support, anesthesia and electrocardiography products. Other Siemens medical products include imaging systems, nuclear medicine products, oncology care systems, ultrasound equipment and hearing instruments.
The 150-year-old parent Siemens AG, based in Munich, Germany, is the 15th-largest industrial corporation in the world, with $63 billion in sales worldwide. The company employs 386,000 people in 190 countries across six continents.
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