Corporate Profile

Philips Radiology Informatics, formerly Stentor, was founded in 1998 to provide a solution for enterprise-wide medical image and information management. Leveraging the company's patented iSyntax technology, Philips has developed an Enterprise First solution for the distribution and management of diagnostic-quality digital images and associated patient information. While traditional Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) companies concentrate solely on the radiology department, Philips iSite PACS solution focuses on the entire healthcare enterprise.

The number, variety and complexity of medical images are increasing. According to the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR), more than 450 million radiology studies are performed annually in the United States, and according to SCAR experts, this number is growing at approximately 7% to 9% per year. Traditionally, healthcare institutions have printed x-ray and other medical images on film and manually managed, stored and physically delivered them throughout a healthcare facility. Film-based imaging storage and management is inefficient and expensive.

Because of the limitations of film-based imaging, over the last ten years some healthcare institutions have attempted to convert from film-based imaging to PACS. Traditional PACS, however, have failed to live up to customer expectations, generally suffering from poor enterprise-wide distribution of diagnostic-quality images and unreliable system performance, leading to poor cost-effectiveness. The shortcomings of existing PACS have created a significant opportunity for a PACS solution provider that can quickly and cost-effectively deliver diagnostic-quality images across a hospital or multi-site healthcare institution. Philips has developed a digital image management solution that solves the limitations of other PACS offerings.

In October 2005, Philips iSite PACS was named the #1 PACS vendor for acute care facilities over 200 beds in the PACS - Acute Care 2005 Report from KLAS Enterprises for the third consecutive year. In December 2005, Philips iSite PACS won the "Best in KLAS" award for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems for the third consecutive year. The KLAS database represents the opinions of healthcare executives, managers, and clinicians from over 4,500 healthcare facilities on more than 300 vendors and 500 different products.

As of March 31, 2005, more than 122 customers representing more than 220 hospitals or medical facilities in North America's leading hospitals had adopted Philips' Enterprise First approach to image and information management, including M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Henry Ford Health System, V.A. Ann Arbor Medical, and Providence Health System.

Core Technology

iSyntax Technology: Based on mathematical representations of images called wavelets, which enable the on-demand delivery of lossless/full-fidelity image data.

Products

iSite PACS includes:

iSite Enterprise

Web-based image distribution solution that allows physicians immediate access to diagnostic-quality images and associated patient information, enterprise-wide.

iSite Radiology

Diagnostic reading station that provides full-fidelity diagnostic presentation of current and prior studies, and associated clinical information using a single application. Diagnostic image presentation and navigation are separated, improving reading efficiency.

iVault

Always on-line medical image store that scales to millions of studies per year and supports hundreds of concurrent iSite Enterprise and iSite Radiology clients across multiple sites.

Certifications and Approvals

Philips Radiology Informatics is ISO 13485 certified, whose iSite PACS product carries the CE mark, and first received 510(k) clearance to market its product from the FDA in October 1999.