Philips, Microsoft collaborate for CDS, health informatics

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.

One combined technology will come from the Philips Visicu eICU Program which integrates with Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Beta and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 to aggregate critical patient information for remote, 24-hour monitoring of critically ill patients.

The application aims to create a standardized, front-end analytics portal to display information from the Philips Visicu eICU Program database and enables executives to view, share and analyze ICU data relating to their health system’s operations, Philips said.

Philips and Microsoft also will collaborate on the first of Philips’ patient monitoring connectivity products, IntelliVue XDS Clinical Workstation; currently being adapted to run on Windows 7.

According to Philips, XDS combines patient monitoring views and IT applications with the ability to interact freely among them. By leveraging the capabilities of Microsoft Windows 7, IntelliVue XDS will allow users the ability to launch multiple third-party IT applications within the Windows environment.

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