ANDOVER, Mass. and REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
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.
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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. 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.
“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 capabil
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