Expert on language standardization and coding joins Philips to develop and expand service portfolio for healthcare speech recognition

Vienna, Austria - Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that it has appointed Dr. Theo Bosma to help expand its portfolio of professional services for information capturing in healthcare.

Dr. Bosma, who joins from Aurora, Colo.-based Health Language, Inc., will hold the position of business development manager at Philips Speech Recognition Systems. With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and technology-related fields, including business consulting and large IT project management, Dr. Bosma is an expert on standardized terminology and coding.

Prior to working for Health Language, Dr. Bosma was global director of business development and consulting with Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, Mo. In addition to his vast healthcare documentation expertise, he brings considerable global consulting experience to his position at Philips, having held a senior management position with Andersen Consulting (today Accenture) in both the United States and Europe. Dr. Bosma obtained a master’s in computer and information resources management from Webster University of St. Louis and a Ph.D. from Capella University in Minneapolis.

“With Dr. Bosma’s expertise, Philips will be exploring opportunities to further innovate healthcare documentation, making clinically actionable information available to clinicians when and where they need it,” says Robert Thornton, commercial director, Philips Speech Recognition Systems. “He will provide valuable and highly competent support for our integration partners who will benefit from access to his technical and commercial know-how of global healthcare.”

Philips Speech Recognition Systems provides its SpeechMagic integration partners with exclusive access to the know-how, expertise and resources of a global leader in speech recognition-based information capturing. Philips experts support the company’s integration partners in developing solutions that increase the productivity of hospitals and optimize documentation processes in healthcare facilities, allowing users to reap the full benefits of speech recognition-based healthcare documentation.

For further information please contact
Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Anne Durand-Badel
USA: +1 888 SPEAK 50
Other: + 43 1 60101 1048
anne.durand-badel@philips.com
www.philips.com/speechrecognition

About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 133,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 27 billion in 2007, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, male shaving and grooming, portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.