Philips 2010 Annual Report Download - page 18

3 Our strategy in action 3.1 - 3.1
18 Annual Report 2010
Confidence and speed in clinical
diagnosis
All solutions start with insight. But groundbreaking ones
start with truly deep, expert understanding – as in the
case of the Stroke Navigator.
In the event of a stroke, some 2 million brain cells start to
die every minute. Fast diagnosis and treatment is essential,
as captured by the slogan ‘time is brain’. The best possible
care requires hospitals to provide 24/7 access to
neurological services. Small, rural hospitals however can
often not afford to have neurologists on staff around the
clock. Such hospitals increasingly make use of
telemedicine centers that provide remote, 24/7
neurological services to subscribers. To minimize time-to-
treatment, and to help prevent clinical errors due to
miscommunication, efficient and reliable collaboration
between bedside care providers and telemedicine center
is needed.
Both hospitals and telemedicine centers can now benefit
from Stroke Navigator, a new clinical decision support
tool developed by Philips Research in close cooperation
with Philips Healthcare Visicu. As a collaborative tool, it
provides contextual forms that allow care providers on
both sides to efficiently access and exchange patient data.
A doctor performs an initial assessment of the presence/severity of
stroke.
It also assists them in following stroke care protocols, for
example, by helping to make sure that all relevant data is
collected and is known when, where and by whom it is