Alliance assures UI Hospitals and Clinics will offer patients the very latest technologies for years to come

Whether it's a heart problem or battle with cancer, today's patients rightfully expect to receive care via the latest and most advanced technologies.

A new 15-year strategic alliance with one of the world's largest suppliers in the health care industry assures that physicians and staff with University of Iowa Health Care will offer the very latest in diagnostic imaging and oncology treatment technologies.

The alliance with Siemens Medical Solutions also includes all-encompassing cooperative research and development activities.

Future opportunities may expand the agreement to include health care information technology solutions, building technologies, and information network and communication services.

Donna Katen-Bahensky, director and CEO of UI Hospitals and Clinics, said, "Our mission is to provide the best possible patient care in Iowa, and this alliance with Siemens will ensure this happens.

"With our expertise and dedication to quality care and world-class medical research, combined with Siemens' 'thought leadership' in innovative health care technologies, we can change medicine and change lives for the better."

As part of the alliance, experts with UI Health Care--which includes UI Hospitals and Clinics and the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, together with the UI College of Engineering--will have access to the latest medical imaging technologies from Siemens, including magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT), and positron emission tomography (P.E.T.) systems. It also includes advanced oncology treatment systems.

Furthermore, with support for radiological research efforts and financial services products from Siemens, the alliance will enable UI Health Care to maintain its national leadership role in medical research and continue to provide premier health care to patients.

About Siemens

Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Erlangen, Germany, employs 31,000 people worldwide and operates in more than 120 nations. More information can be obtained at www.usa.siemens.com/medical

Ventures in progress

As part of the strategic alliance, UI Health Care will receive the following advanced technologies from Siemens Medical Solutions:

• MAGNETOM Avanto, the newest 1.5 Tesla MR system that incorporates Siemens' Total imaging matrix (TimTM) technology, the first whole body surface coil concept
• biographTM 16, the industry's highest performing integrated P.E.T. and CT imaging system
• ONCORTM Avant-Garde, an innovative linear accelerator that is designed to deliver advanced, high-quality radiation therapy treatments in a streamlined workflow environment
• AXIOM Multix MX flat panel detector, which covers the full spectrum of general purpose radiograph applications, from chest and skeletal to pediatric and orthopaedic exposures