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Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the Achieva 3T TX Mobile MRI, the first mobile 3T MRI system implemented with MultiTransmit technology.
Royal Philips Electronics has agreed with Project Hope, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization, to place telemonitoring devices in select homes in rural areas of New Mexico.
Royal Philips Electronics is expanding access to critical care support in rural communities with the eICU Program from Philips VISICU.
While Royal Philips Electronics recorded a net income of €200 million ($270.8 million U.S.) for the 2010 first quarter compared with a net loss of €59 million ($79.5 million U.S.) in the 2009 first quarter, Philips Healthcare also saw a 20 percent growth in equipment order intake.
Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
While Royal Philips Electronics recorded a net income of €260 million ($367.7 million U.S.) in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with a net loss of €1.18 billion ($1.67 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2008, Philips Healthcare did not fare as well, especially in the U.S. market.
Royal Philips Electronics will integrate the MAQUET Magnus surgical table with Philips’ cardiovascular x-ray systems to create an efficient "hybrid operating room" environment for a full range of minimally-invasive and open surgical procedures. Philips made the announcement yesterday at the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Francisco this week.
Although Royal Philips Electronics Monday reported a 94 percent drop in profits for the 2009 second quarter--from €735 million ($1.3 billion U.S.) in 2007 to €45 million ($62.86 million U.S.)--the healthcare unit booked a much smaller decline from year-ago results.
Royal Philips Electronics will equip its dictation microphone SpeechMike with SpeechControl, allowing SpeechMike to be used with its Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition program.
Royal Philips Electronics and Pittsburgh-based biosimulation firm Immunetrics announced a joint development agreement to explore new approaches to the problem of infectious disease in critical care.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.