Philips Aligns Healthcare Informatics Business to Simplify Flow of Patient Data

Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) announced a new structure for its Healthcare Informatics business to align its entire range of clinical information solutions including patient monitoring, enterprise and clinical image management, anesthesia information, women's health information, and cardiology information systems.

The realignment will allow Philips to meet the clinical workflow and information needs demanded by its clinical customers. At the same time, this allows Philips to harmonize clinical systems with the infrastructure and integration needs required by informatics customers.

Patient monitoring is evolving from reactive displays of vital sign information to rich clinical decision support systems that are predictive and preventative. These systems must provide value to clinical customers while integrating to the healthcare institution's infrastructure and electronic health record (EHR).

Oran Muduroglu, CEO, Healthcare Informatics, for Philips Healthcare (Best, The Netherlands), stated "Philips' innovation in IT simplifies workflow and provides easy access to all relevant information for more informed diagnosis and decision-making. By better managing the flow of data through the continuum of care, healthcare organizations can significantly impact operations and focus more effort on their core business: taking care of patients.”

Philips is developing solutions that help users across the healthcare system effectively manage and analyze the vast amount of patient data generated by diagnostic imaging systems, cardiac testing equipment, and patient monitors. Clinicians need an easy way to access this important information when and where they need it to provide the highest level of care to patients. These systems can maximize operational efficiency if patient information feeds into a hospital's overall information system, as well as the patient's EHR.

The Philips range of healthcare IT solutions was recently presented at the 2008 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, February 25-28, 2008, in Orlando, FL, USA.


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