Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that its Medical Systems division is introducing the Philips asset tracking solution, a turn-key solution used for locating hospital assets and improving efficiencies. Using Wi-Fi based technology by AeroScout Inc., the asset tracking solution is designed around the hospitals' existing 802.11 wireless infrastructure, allowing hospitals to leverage investments they have already made in their wireless technology.

During the Medica in Duesseldorf, Siemens Medical Solutions shows an X-ray unit that ensures high quality diagnostics for practices with limited budgets. Known as Multix Swing, the system brings new momentum into the everyday life of medical practices headed by radiologists, surgeons and orthopedists.

TietoEnator will supply an operational planning system for home and elderly care services to the City of Stockholm. The system is to be integrated with the city's existing operational system. The system being procured - named SchemOS by the City authorities - offers efficient planning support for care suppliers throughout the City of Stockholm.

The electronic healthcare card is viewed in Germany as an opportunity for a modern healthcare system. Experts estimate that more than 500 million euros can be saved in Germany annually. Behind this number are intelligent server solutions, billions and billions of data bits, highly-developed security technology, digital hospitals, networked physicians, and above all: a focus on patients.

At Medica 2006 Siemens is exhibiting the first functional scenario for integrated healthcare in Germany, including cards, connector, and mandatory and value-added services. Medica visitors can discover how integrated healthcare could work in the future. For this scenario, Siemens already satisfies the stringent data protection and security requirements of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) regarding the confidential processing and transfer of patient data.

TietoEnator supplies for the Perinatal Registration Netherlands Foundation the exploitation solution of registrations regarding perinatal care in the Netherlands. The registrations have been administrated and managed by Foundation PRN since 2001. The contract supports TietoEnator's growth strategy in Europe and marks a major step in developing IT services for healthcare registrations in the Netherlands by TietoEnator.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the 100,000 th registered medical professional on the Philips Learning Center, an online resource providing continuing education anytime, anywhere one can access the Internet.