Philips refocuses on IT, patient monitoring synergies
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Philips restructures its Healthcare Informatics business Feb. 25 to integrate its patient monitoring portfolio, which also includes clinical image management and anesthesia, women's health and cardiology information systems. The firm says the unit's product lines will allow clinicians to manage and analyze large amounts of patient data from a variety of sources, a model it says was strengthened by recent acquisitions of informatics tools from XIMIS, Emergin and Visicu (1"The Gray Sheet" Dec. 10, 2007, p. 14)