Press Information
March 2, 2010
PHILIPS COLLABORATES WITH MICROSOFT TO ENHANCE HEALTHCARE
EFFICIENCIES AND PRODUCTIVITY
Combined efforts will spur informatics-driven solutions to address healthcare challenges
Andover, Mass., USA – Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced
collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare
informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings that drive efficiency and
effectiveness at the point of care. Working together, the companies aim to integrate
technologies that will yield faster delivery of meaningful health information, further improve
healthcare efficiency and productivity, and reduce development and infrastructure costs.
“We are driving towards a significant paradigm shift from, on the one hand, simply reporting
healthcare analytics to, on the other hand, creating systems which actually provide access to
health information when and where it is needed,” said Deborah DiSanzo, CEO, Healthcare
Informatics and Patient Monitoring, for Philips Healthcare. “Philips and Microsoft are in a unique
position to work together for the betterment of the healthcare system by effectively helping to
close the healthcare technology loop.”
The companies share a common vision for advancing healthcare transformation: simplified
clinician workflow, better financial outcomes and improved patient care.
“Information is only as powerful as the ability to share it among those that play an integral role in
patient care,” said Tim Smokoff, general manager of Worldwide Health at Microsoft. “This
collaboration is a step toward integrating different sources of information, and then providing
actionable knowledge in clear, useful formats that suit the needs of the different people who are
working to improve care at the point of care.”
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Conference &
Exhibition, Philips and Microsoft are showcasing two works-in-progress born of their
collaboration: integration of Philips VISICU’s eICU® Program with Microsoft Windows Server
2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 Beta; and Philips IntelliVue XDS, which is being adapted to run
on Windows 7.
Philips VISICU eICU Program
The Philips VISICU eICU Program is an integrated healthcare solution for remote, 24-hour
monitoring of critically ill patients. Philips, in collaboration with Microsoft, is showcasing a
conceptual Critical Care Analytics Portal designed to support executive decision-making.
Being demonstrated for feedback at HIMSS10, the eICU Program/SharePoint solution seeks to
aggregate critical patient information in a way that can be easily accessed, seamlessly shared
and simply utilized. Combining users’ familiarity with Microsoft interfaces and SharePoint’s
strengths, the solution aims to create a standardized front-end analytics portal to display
information from the Philips VISICU eICU Program database and enables executives to view,
share and analyze ICU data relating to their health system’s operations.
“In today’s data-intensive, fast-paced critical care environment, specialists often make critical life
and death decisions for the patients under their care,” said Curtis Veal, M.D., Critical Care and
eICU Medical Director for Swedish Medical Center. “We continue to utilize advanced systems
like the eICU Program that facilitate shared access to both clinical and operational data for
optimal delivery of patient care.”
Philips IntelliVue XDS
Philips and Microsoft will also demonstrate technology interoperability with a look at the first of
Philips’ patient monitoring connectivity products, currently being adapted to run on Windows 7.
Philips IntelliVue XDS Clinical Workstation provides fast, convenient access to patient-focused
clinical information from hospital IT systems on Philips IntelliVue monitors. XDS creates a
flexible, customizable clinical workspace, combining patient monitoring views and IT
applications, with the ability to interact freely among them to optimize patient care. By
leveraging the user-friendly capabilities of Microsoft Windows 7, IntelliVue XDS will allows users
the ability to launch multiple third-party IT applications within the familiar Windows environment.
To see the demonstrations at HIMSS, please visit the Philips Healthcare booth #1933 and
Philips VISICU booth #2232.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Steve Kelly
Philips Healthcare
Tel: +1 (425) 487-7479
E-mail: steve.kelly@philips.com
Ian Race
Philips Healthcare
Tel: +1 (978) 659-4624
E-mail: ian.race@philips.com
About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified Health and
Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world
leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into
people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of
“sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs more than 116,000
employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of US$32.3 billion in 2009, the
company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient
lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal wellbeing and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, male shaving and grooming,
portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at
www.philips.com/newscenter.