MedStar Health, Washington, DC. Washington Hospital Center is using Microsoft Amalga to help control hospital-acquired infections. Courtesy of Microsoft

Andover, Mass., and Redmond, Wash., USA - February 21, 2011

Royal Philips Electronics NV (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced the companies will collaborate to streamline the workflow of radiologists as they seek to build and understand the complete clinical context of a patient.

The collaboration builds upon the companies’ existing commitment to work together to connect technologies that will help yield faster delivery of meaningful health information, improve healthcare efficiency and productivity, and reduce development and infrastructure costs.

MedStar Health, Washington, DC. Washington Hospital Center is using Microsoft Amalga to help control hospital-acquired infections. Courtesy of Microsoft

The companies will connect Microsoft Amalga, a data aggregation platform, with Philips iSite PACS (picture archiving and communication system) to give radiologists the ability to view a complete set of a patient’s data stored across the health enterprise - e.g., admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) data, lab data, pathology reports and medications - alongside the patient’s images stored in the iSite PACS system.

Microsoft Amalga. Advancing understanding of your organization’s performance drivers. Courtesy of Microsoft

The ability to view digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) and non-DICOM data in one place will reduce the time radiologists currently spend probing separate, disconnected information systems to build a comprehensive view of patient history and allow them to focus more time on case review, analysis and diagnostics.

Microsoft Amalga centralizes digital information of all types into a single, continually updated repository that is available for analysis and data sharing. Courtesy of Microsoft

“Philips and Microsoft have a unique opportunity to give radiologists a new level of insight about the patient while reducing steps in their workflow,” said Scott Burkhart, vice president of marketing, Healthcare Informatics North America, for Philips Healthcare.
“Interoperability is one of our core strategies, and enabling our iSite PACS and Amalga systems to work together can enhance analytics capabilities, enabling the radiology department to gain a deeper understanding of performance and identify opportunities to improve throughput and efficiency.”

Nate McLemore, general manager of business development, Microsoft Health Solutions Group. Courtesy of Microsoft

“To make strides in healthcare delivery, we need to break down the artificial walls around health data and enable it to flow to the right people at the right time throughout the care process,” said Nate McLemore, general manager of business development, Microsoft Health Solutions Group.
“Our relationship with Philips is centered on this approach. We’re excited to combine the strengths of our technologies to help empower clinicians to drive improvements in the efficiency and quality of care.”

iSite Radiology offers advanced visualization features to speed the reading and consultation of volumetric datasets such as multi-slice CT and MR cases. Its scalability, dedicated user interface and workflow features are specifically tailored to facilitate PACS workflow. Courtesy of Philips

Under the agreement signed by the companies, Philips and Microsoft will collaborate to configure, market and sell a connected solution that enables radiologists using the Philips iSite Radiology viewer to make a single click within iSite to access a patient’s clinical data aggregated, delivered, and displayed within Microsoft Amalga.

St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA. This $3.7 billion not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, with 14 hospitals in 3 states, is using Microsoft Amalga to achieve a balance of hospital and community care. Courtesy of Microsoft

Today, in order to view a patient’s labs, medications and other data, a radiologist must start multiple clinical IT applications, log into each one, navigate to the specific patient and then click through multiple screens in each application to build a complete mental picture of the patient’s history.

St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA. This $3.7 billion not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, with 14 hospitals in 3 states, is using Microsoft Amalga to achieve a balance of hospital and community care. Courtesy of Microsoft

With the connected solution, Microsoft Amalga will aggregate patient data from the hospital’s multiple IT systems and deliver a unified view to the radiologist, eliminating the need to navigate separate applications.

Microsoft Amalga aggregates health data across disconnected systems in the health enterprise and empowers users to analyze and explore context-rich information about their patients or departments, on demand.

Philips iSite PACS is an image management and distribution solution with unique technology that gives any physician in the enterprise access to full fidelity images within three seconds.


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 119,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide.

With sales of EUR 25.4 billion in 2010, 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 well-being 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  



About Microsoft in Health


Microsoft is committed to improving health around the world through software innovation.

Over the past 13 years, Microsoft has steadily increased its investments in health with a focus on addressing the challenges of health providers, health and social services organizations, payers, consumers and life sciences companies worldwide.

Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect is a portal solution that enables healthcare organizations to easily generate electronic visit summaries and share them with their patients and provider community. HealthVault Community Connect also simplifies pre-registration. While HealthVault Community Connect helps you manage the dynamic nature of a connected health system and build loyalty with the referring provider community, it also helps you simplify care coordination and reduce administrative costs in line with U.S. meaningful use criteria. Courtesy of Microsoft

Microsoft closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and delivers its own powerful health solutions, such as Amalga, HealthVault, and a portfolio of identity and access management technologies acquired from Sentillion Inc. in 2010.

Together, Microsoft and its industry partners are working to deliver health solutions for the way people aspire to work and live.


About Microsoft


Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.


SOURCE: Microsoft Corp.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-21philipspr.mspx  



Steve Rusckowski

Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer Philips Healthcare

Steve Rusckowski Photo courtesy of Philips

Member of the Board of Management since April 2007 and CEO of Philips Healthcare since November 2006.
Corporate responsibilities: Healthcare Sector

Before joining Philips Steve Rusckowski held numerous management positions with the healthcare division of Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies.
He was the General Manager of Agilent’s Healthcare Solutions Group when Philips acquired this business in 2001.

Mr. Rusckowski was previously the CEO of the Imaging Systems business group of Philips Healthcare.
He was appointed Chief Executive Officer Philips Healthcare and member of the Group Management Committee on November 1, 2006.
On April 1, 2007 he became a member of the Board of Management.

Mr. Rusckowski was born in 1957 in the United States and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a degree in management science from the Mass Institute of Technology (MIT).

He is married and has two children.

Memberships
• Board of Directors Project Hope
• Board of Directors Massachusetts High Tech Council


SOURCE: Philips Healthcare

http://www.philips.com/about/company/management/index.page



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