Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and VPS Healthcare, one of the Middle East's largest healthcare groups, today announced the signing of a multi-year partnership agreement to install Philips Tasy EMR in VPS Healthcare hospitals and clinics throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman and India. Tasy EMR is Philips' next generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and care management solution, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional EMRs.

'With Philips Tasy EMR, we will move from multiple IT platforms to a single integrated solution that allows us to manage all clinical and logistical processes,' said Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and Managing Director of VPS Healthcare. 'We need our data to be available wherever and whenever it's needed. Tasy EMR's ability to move patient and administrative data around throughout the entire VPS network is critical to the high quality seamless care that VPS Healthcare wants to deliver in the region.'

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