"Siemens Healthcare knows first-hand how important financing has become to helping hospitals, physician practices and specialty clinics bridge the financial gap and match costs to benefits while implementing new solutions under the ARRA's HITECH provision," said Joe Gaetano, vice president, Siemens Healthcare ARRA Program Office." It goes without saying that IBM Global Financing is a key part of the funding solutions we are proud to offer our customers."

Lavender and Wyatt Systems Inc. is an enterprise software solutions company focused on behavioral health providers. Most of its clients are 501(c)(3)s not-for-profit, community behavioral health agencies. Over the past nine months LWSI has signed up several new behavioral healthcare providers that are leveraging IBM Global Financing's private technology funding offerings to help them jump-start their EHR implementations.

"Even at the niche level, financing is key," said Brad Feller, President, Lavender and Wyatt Systems, Inc. "Many of our clients have seen reduced funding from public and private sources, but still understand the need to start implementing solutions today. We feel that helping our clients connect the dots between, federal grants and loans, charity pricing and IBM Global Financing options stretches their dollars available for LWSI's Essentia solution."

LWSI provides an IGF quote with every proposal that includes projected monthly payments to make it easier for customers to act now and get a step up on the benefits gained by EHRs.

Nashville-based Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) is a leading provider of financial and clinical software solutions, including a fully integrated electronic medical healthcare records solutions to under 250-bed regional and community hospitals. One of its solutions, HMS Patient Care Documentation is a fully-integrated, multi-disciplinary clinician application that allows for online patient charting with increased organization and navigation capabilities.

"IBM Global Financing will be a key partner in helping HMS' hospital-clients attain meaningful use criteria in a timely fashion," said Mike Freeman, senior vice-president of sales.

OURCE IBM