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Royal Philips - The Medical Equipment Monarch

Nearly a decade ago, Royal Philips Philips adopted Witt Biomedical
Electronics of the Netherlands fathered Corporation, the largest independent
Philips Healthcare Services and appears supplier of Cath Lab monitoring and
determined that their subsidiary will reporting systems.
soon become King of the medical In its pursuit to be crowned King of the
equipment industry. This move apparently Medical Equipment industry, Philips
came in response to GE Medical Systems' Healthcare Services has obtained 6
announcement that it planned on becoming businesses since its inception in 1998.
king itself of the ultrasound industry Every single one of the 6 has stretched
before the year 2000. Not to be Philips' offerings to include a total of
"out-royaled", Philips from the first ten medical imaging modalities, from CT
year started an acquisition frenzy so to MRI to x-ray, along with
they could expand its subsidiary's defibrillation and cardiac monitoring
product portfolio well beyond its initial equipment plus image and information
product line, which started in 1918 with management solutions.
medical x-ray tubes. So, has Philips moved into the royal
At the end of Philips Healthcare Services industry castle yet? Some believe so. In
first year, Philips Electronics added fact, before the last two acquisitions,
digital ultrasound systems to PHS's Palo Alto's "growth consulting" company
portfolio by getting ATL Ultrasound of Frost & Sullivan thought so. In 2004
Washington. Only two years after, in late Frost & Sullivan announced they were
2000, Philips grew into nuclear medicine giving Philips 5 awards for "technology
by absorbing ADAC Laboratories of and services innovation and industry
California. leadership". Philips was recognized for
In 2001 was a very productive year as making distinguished contributions to the
Philips went into a very high gear by cardiac resuscitation and medical imaging
obtaining two more businesses and their industries and for providing leadership
product lines - Agilent and Marconi in these market segments.
Medical. By procuring Agilent Was Frost & Sullivan just searching for a
Technologies Healthcare Solutions Group place at the royal court or were these
of Massachusetts, Philips catapulted past genuine kudos? Probably the later. F&S
GE Medical as the leader of the held interviews with a myriad of market
ultrasound sector. Philips absorbed players along with their customers and
Agilent's expertise in the areas of suppliers, and reportedly did great
diagnostic cardiology, automated research into the medical equipment
defibrillators, patient monitoring, and technology field.
point of care diagnostic systems. One of the 5 awards included the
Marconi Medical Systems of Ohio, formerly regent-like titles of "Medical Imaging
Picker International, was already a big Company of the Year", "New Care Setting
player in its own right among major of the Year", and "Medical Imaging
global CT suppliers. With Marconi, Technology of the Year". The other two
Philips gained cutting-edge multi-slice were for Technology Leadership and
CT technology along with cardiology, Services Innovation Leadership.
oncology and PET/CT imaging applications. The response of Jouko Karvinen, of
These two acquisitions in 1 year landed Philips Medical Systems, to the awards
Philips in the top 3 for the entire sounded like the exact same of an
medical equipment industry along with industry coronation speech. He stated,
giants Siemens and GE Medical - some say "We proudly accept the Frost Sullivan
as number two. Awards as an independent validation of
Back in 2005, the growth continued as Philips business and technology
Philips bought Stentor, Inc. of leadership. These 5 awards are further
California, provider of best-in-class indicators that Philips continues to set
picture archiving and communications the industry standard for developing
systems (PACS). This move allowed Philips innovative products that help treat
to aid its clients successfully manage patients and save lives."
the many amounts of imaging data created NOTE: Use of this article requires links
by its medical scanners. Then, the to be intact.
following year, the growth continued as




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