Philips Showcases Integrated Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Solutions Enabling Physicians to Better Share Patient Data More Effectively.

ANDOVER, Mass. -- Product suite developed as antidote to medical errors, misplaced patient records, and rising healthcare costs

Philips Medical Systems, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX; PHI), today demonstrates its advanced portfolio of HIT solutions moving hospitals closer to realizing electronic health records (EHR) at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2006 annual meeting in San Diego. Philips integrated HIT solutions highlight the seamless flow of information across the hospital enterprise through intelligent image management with Philips iSite Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), real-time clinical decision support with Philips CareVue Chart and shared patient data management with the Philips Xtenity platform, powered by Epic.

Philips demonstrates the clinical efficacy of its HIT portfolio at a time when a continued emphasis is being placed on the importance of HIT to improve healthcare safety and quality, and help reduce costs through workflow efficiency gains and enhanced communication of patient information leading to more informed clinical decisions and treatment. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced an increased push to computerize the nation's medical records. Advocates say that EHRs could save the U.S. $140 billion a year in health care expenses.(1)

"Philips Xtenity, built in partnership with Epic, is leading the charge with respect to enterprise integration across clinical departments, which is a key factor in preparing the U.S. healthcare system for electronic health records and moving to a truly digital hospital," said Oran Muduroglu, CEO of Healthcare IT, for Philips Medical Systems. "This strategy is complemented by our demonstrated leadership in open architecture integration leveraging our iSite PACS Application Programming Interface (API), which enables best-of-breed integrations with multiple specialty vendors."

At HIMSS, Philips demonstrates Xtenity Enterprise integrated with Philips IntelliVue monitors, iSite PACS solutions and SpeechMagic voice recognition technology, delivering a total Healthcare IT solution. Philips HIT solution represents the company's approach to patient-centric care, and is demonstrated through the story of Ana, a fictional patient who experiences the patient care cycle from home to an ambulatory visit, to an inpatient stay, and finally back home again. Booth visitors can see how Philips HIT solutions seamlessly integrate every touch point in the patient care cycle from diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, throughout the hospital IT infrastructure.

Enhanced patient care through seamless data sharing across departments

Xtenity Enterprise is an integrated and comprehensive IT solution built on proven technology from Epic Systems Corporation, and tailored for the needs of the mid-sized, modern healthcare enterprise. Xtenity includes a clinical data repository, registration, scheduling, ADT (admission, discharge, transfer), billing, as well as inpatient and ambulatory applications built on a single platform. Xtenity Enterprise is a proven solution designed to meet a hospital's most pressing information management needs and to improve quality of care, drive efficiency, and enhance patient safety. Xtenity can help healthcare organizations distinguish themselves as a center of excellence by enhancing quality, encouraging consumer preference and contributing to better patient outcomes through access to patient data any place, at any time.

Included in the Xtenity portfolio is Philips Xtenity RIS (Radiology Information System), an enterprise-ready system that provides radiologists with the right tools to enhance service delivery and consequently can help strengthen relationships with referring physicians. Xtenity RIS can be seamlessly connected with Philips iSite PACS, enabling information sharing throughout the enterprise using standards-based, consistent interfaces. The Xtenity portfolio is currently only available in the U.S.

All of these solutions feature a consistent user interface and the highest interoperability standards for improved efficiency, cost reduction and better service to referring physicians and patients by making vital patient information more accessible across the entire hospital network.

Providing advanced technology without major software or infrastructure investments

Philips iSite PACS solution focuses on the entire healthcare enterprise. iSite PACS is a digital image management solution that solves the limitations of other PACS offerings by quickly and cost-effectively delivering diagnostic-quality images across a hospital or multi-site healthcare institution.

Philips iSite PACS system differentiates itself by delivering diagnostic-quality images to the point of patient care in less than three seconds. Philips iSite PACS is sold with a unique "pay-per-study" business model enabling customers to purchase PACS services without a major software or infrastructure investment, which creates a shared partnership with customers.

Further, with intuitive, easy-to-navigate web-browser technology, healthcare professionals can begin using the applications with minimal training. Philips iSite PACS delivers a 99.99 percent uptime guarantee, so customers can count on iSite PACS always running and being available.

In December 2005, Philips iSite PACS won the "Best in KLAS" award for PACS for the third consecutive year. In October 2005, Philips iSite PACS was named the #1 PACS vendor for acute care facilities over 200 beds in the PACS - Acute Care 2005 Report from KLAS Enterprises for the third consecutive year.

Philips has also been awarded best-in-class winner in the 2006 MS-HUG Annual Awards for the Clinical/Patient Information Systems category. This award recognizes the breakthrough contribution being made by healthcare organizations and individuals to drive efficiencies across the healthcare system. The award will be announced in the Microsoft booth, # 4533, at the HIMSS 2006 meeting, at 11:20 a.m. PST on Tuesday, February 14.

Centralizing the patient chart and providing real-time clinical decision support for vigilant care

Also featured at HIMSS this year is Philips CareVue Chart C.0, the critical care and inpatient clinical information system designed by clinicians for clinicians. CareVue Chart C.0 brings together a wide variety of charted data--vital signs, trends, lab results, calculations and observations--and then applies a library of built-in rules to deliver multi-parameter clinical advisories that can help caregivers recognize important changes in patient status, so they may intervene quickly and ensure guidelines are followed consistently. For example, the system can help alert clinicians to the early warning signs of sepsis, which include changes in multiple vital signs (as recorded by the patient monitor) and white blood count (lab values).

CareVue Cart C.0 synthesizes and integrates real-time physiological data gathered from bedside devices and centralizes the patient chart, helping hospitals handle handoffs between caregivers smoothly and implement protocols consistently. The complete database is available at all times, saving countless staff hours currently spent requesting past medical records and gathering data for regulatory reports. An intuitive user interface allows non-technical users to query the database simply by dragging and dropping data elements. With CareVue Chart, clinicians are only two or three mouse clicks away from required regulatory reports.

Supporting the continuum of obstetrical care and the newborn nursery

The Philips OB TraceVue revision E.0 is an integrated system for obstetrical surveillance, charting, and archiving that enables caregivers to document the entire continuum of obstetrical care from the first antepartum visit through delivery, postpartum, follow-up visits, and newborn nursery. With Web access via secured LAN or phone line connection from the private MD office or home PC, a care provider can be directly in touch with the patient's progress. OB TraceVue is designed around the way obstetrical care works. At HIMSS 2006, OB TraceVue revision E.0 new technical enhancements include Microsoft Server 2003, support of the new Philips Avalon Fetal Monitor family, automatic disaster recovery via hot standby server, and OBTV user authentication via Microsoft Active Directory.

Enhanced Xcelera Cath Lab Management Provides Fast, Intuitive Reporting for Streamlined Workflow

Philips also introduces the newest version of the Xcelera Cath Lab Management system, delivering enhanced physician reporting tools for documenting diagnostic and interventional findings. A redesigned graphical user interface, harmonized with other Philips systems, shortens the learning curve and supports ease-of-use, while other enhancements include full integration with Philips HaemoSphere hemodynamic monitoring system for real-time clinical data exchange and improved workflow and user interaction.

With Xcelera Cath Lab Management's new features, physicians can improve productivity through a more flexible, streamlined reporting model. An interactive reporting system allows physicians to document clinical findings graphically, automatically generating appropriate narrative statements, making Xcelera Cath Lab Management one of the most interactive cath reporting tools on the market.

Confirming Xcelera's place as a market-leading technology, Philips cardiology PACS received recognition in 2005 from several industry research groups. Frost & Sullivan presented Philips with its 2005 Product Line Award for cardiology PACS for demonstrating the most insight into customer needs and product demands. In addition, KLAS Enterprises ranked Philips as Best Overall Cardiology PACS Vendor in its Cardiology PACS Study 2005.

For more information on Philips departmental and enterprise-wide products and solutions please visit HIMSS booth #5017.

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of $37.7 billion (EUR 30.4 billion) in 2005. With activities in the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology and 159,200 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and silicon system solutions. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

(1)The Washington Post, January 10, 2006