The Peine Clinic in Lower Saxony is the first hospital in Germany to interface its angiography systems with an image management and reporting system. All data generated prior to or during an intervention in the cardiac cath lab is now automatically transferred to the new IT system. The advantage: while the examination is still in progress, operating personnel can use important examination data to prepare a report for wards or referring physicians in just a matter of minutes. Previously, this took several hours, because the data was transferred from forms to the reporting system manually and the images were also stored manually. For this innovative IT solution in the catheter laboratory in Peine, Siemens interfaced …

Solid State Drives provide the best performance for FibreCAT CX4 storage devices
With SSD now!, Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers companies an easy entry into flash-memory technology in the professional storage environment. Now users can take advantage of the latest, highly reliable SSD (Solid State Drive) technology for FibreCAT CX4 storage systems at an attractive price. In addition, the package includes several white papers on a variety of application scenarios. The offer is effective starting immediately and is available from Fujitsu Siemens Computers directly or any of its certified channel partners, priced from € 4,400. Professional consulting, implementation and maintenance services are also available.
“We are convinced that SSDs are already a wise addition to the offer of …

Siemens is the first DAX-listed company to align its company car policy for executives with the climate protection goals of the European Union. In this pioneering role, the company wants to ensure that its company car fleet, which comprises some 2,500 vehicles in Germany, achieves the EU reference value of 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer by 2015. Siemens plans to begin providing financial incentives for ecofriendly car selection on February 1, 2009. Alternatively, executives may receive a mobility allowance enabling them to dispense with company cars altogether and switch to ecofriendly public transportation.
“Not only do we aim to leverage our technologies to save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions. We also want to be …