Philips And VPS Healthcare Sign 10-Year Agreement For Philips’ Enterprise-Wide Electronic Medical Record Solution

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and VPS Healthcare, one of the Middle East’s largest healthcare groups, today announced the signing of a multi-year partnership agreement to install Philips Tasy EMR in VPS Healthcare hospitals and clinics throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman and India. Tasy EMR is Philips’ next generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and care management solution, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional EMRs.

“With Philips Tasy EMR, we will move from multiple IT platforms to a single integrated solution that allows us to manage all clinical and logistical processes,” said Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and Managing Director of VPS Healthcare. “We need our data to be available wherever and whenever it’s needed. Tasy EMR’s ability to move patient and administrative data around throughout the entire VPS network is critical to the high quality seamless care that VPS Healthcare wants to deliver in the region.”

“The agreement with VPS Healthcare underlines the fact that we have a very strong portfolio of health informatics solutions to support the needs of clinicians and health systems in improving patient care while also optimizing processes and the use of resources throughout their organizations,” said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips. “I am convinced that Tasy EMR will help VPS Healthcare to improve both the quality of care and the patient and staff experience at lower cost.”