Andover, Mass. - Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) highlighted advancements in healthcare information technology (IT) solutions at this week's 2007 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans. Designed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of collecting, analyzing and presenting patient data, Philips IT and monitoring solutions can help medical professionals better pinpoint patients' needs and focus on providing the best care possible.

Transitioning the U.S. healthcare system to a paperless system where patient records are kept digitally has been identified by healthcare experts as a major opportunity to reduce overall healthcare expenses and reduce costly mistakes. These new and upgraded technologies seek to further that goal by providing seamless access to patient data across hospital departments.

"The focus of Philips Healthcare Informatics is to provide hospital-wide clinical information to optimize patient care," says Oran Muduroglu, CEO of Healthcare Informatics, for Philips Medical Systems. "Simplicity is technology that allows caregivers to focus on what they do best-providing patient-focused medical care-with technology that intuitively and instantaneously provides access to the data caregivers need for confident diagnoses."
Delivering clarity and knowledge to clinicians in the first ten feet of care

Hospitals rely on data from disparate systems, from patient demographics to discharge notes and lab results to vital signs. Philips addresses these challenges through its new IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio (ICIP) Critical Care, a clinical decision support tool used by clinicians to support patient care. A platform built to support future applications beyond critical care, ICIP is the evolution of CareVue Chart. It centralizes patient data from the bedside and core hospital information systems so clinicians have access, anywhere, to the information they need to make crucial care decisions. Vital signs, bedside device data, labs, pathology reports, medication orders and planned interventions, among other data, are included in the patient flowsheet, helping to eliminate transcription errors and time lost recording and re-recording data by hand. Clinical advisories-algorithms that combine critical clinical information from all sources of information-are intended to enable clinicians to increase patient safety, reduce medical errors and increase compliance with evidence-based care guidelines. ICIP's reporting tools merge flexibility and ease of use with a comprehensive built-in library that allows the entire hospital staff to generate regulatory and compliance reports with a few mouse clicks.

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