Philips Wins 2018 CHIME Foundation Partner Award for customer centricity in healthcare

AMSTERDAM, /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced it has won the 2018 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation Partner Award. The award recognizes the company’s high level of commitment and accountability towards its health informatics customers, which span from large Integrated Delivery Networks to individual hospitals. Based on customer feedback, the award underlines Philips’ customer-centric approach.

“Our healthcare informatics solutions play a vital role in supporting care providers to diagnose, treat and monitor their patients,” said Carla Kriwet, Chief Business Leader Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips. “Healthcare is always-on. As an accountable business partner, we know our value is not just in providing technology, but to be there alongside our customers to provide continuous support to ensure consistent, seamless care. The CHIME Foundation is one of the most highly respected global organizations serving CIOs and CIMOs and we are honored to receive such positive feedback from our customers.”

Health systems face numerous challenges when it comes to running their organizations. From natural disasters damaging critical technology and interrupting services, to cybersecurity, to ensuring consistent connectivity to enable the transfer of patient monitoring data, hospitals need a partner who can customize technology to quickly identify and fix the problems they face.

Philips has been a longtime CHIME Foundation member firm, and is an advocate for CHIME and CHIME’s mission. To learn more about CHIME, please visit: www.chimecentral.org. Philips full portfolio of Health IT and integrated smart systems, software and services will be spotlighted at the upcoming HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, FL, Feb. 11-15, 2019. Follow @PhilipsLiveFrom for #HIMSS19 updates throughout the event.

For further information, please contact:

Kathy O’Reilly
Philips Group Press Office
Tel.: +1 978 221 8919
E-mail: kathy.oreilly@philips.com
Twitter: kathyoreilly

Candace Stuart
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
Tel: +1-734-665-0000
Email: cstuart@chimecentral.org

About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips generated 2017 sales of EUR 17.8 billion and employs approximately 77,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at http://www.philips.com/newscenter.

About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,800 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

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