Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 116,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 23 billion in 2009, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications.
Healthcare
We combine our expertise in medical technology with the clinical know-how of our customers to produce innovative solutions that meet not just the needs of individual patients, but which also enable healthcare professionals to work faster, more easily and more cost-effectively. Our medical customers have ranked us number 1 in cardiovascular X-ray, digital X-ray and ultrasound, patient monitoring systems, nuclear medicine, cardiology systems and critical care systems.
Healthcare Information Management
The department Healthcare Information Management of Philips Research Europe focuses on Information Management in Clinical Applications and in Home Care environments and on Clinical Decision Support Systems. The two main clinical domains currently addressed are oncology and cardiology, next to generic solutions regarding clinical information systems, information integration, domain modelling, medical imaging, standardization and interoperability. Beside carrying out industrial research projects for Philips Healthcare, the members of the group have participated in and led numerous collaborative projects at National (Dutch-government funding) and European level.
In CHIC, Philips will be working alongside other partners in WP2, WP5 and WP10 on the user requirement engineering, the architectural design of the CHIC system, its computational infrastructure, the design of the model repositories and the system’s interoperability. Moreover, Philips will contribute to the project’s exploitation strategy and dissemination of project results.
