Philips advances diagnosis and treatment of cancer with launch of IntelliSpace Portal 8.0 featuring new digital radiology capabilities

- Advanced imaging data sharing, analytics and visualization platform that helps radiologists detect, diagnose and follow-up on treatment of diseases

- IntelliSpace Portal 8.0 offers a comprehensive advanced visualization suite for multi-modality tumor tracking, characterization and assessment

- Latest edition  debuts a fast and quantified 3-D rendering[1] and analysis of tumor imaging for research into treatment response

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Strengthening its leadership in connected healthcare informatics, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced IntelliSpace Portal 8.0, the latest edition of its advanced data sharing, analytics and visualization platform that helps radiologists detect, diagnose and follow-up on treatment of diseases. Introduced at the 2015 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA) in Chicago, IL, IntelliSpace Portal 8.0 helps address the changing demands in radiology that result from an increasing prevalence of cancer and its economic toll. It delivers new applications – like fast 3-D quantitative renderings of tumors – in a fully integrated oncology suite to improve diagnostic confidence and patient care.

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The oncology suite complements the width and depth of applications that IntelliSpace Portal already offers as a comprehensive, advanced analysis platform. The portal helps clinicians visualize, diagnose, measure disease states and communicate across modalities, with one efficient, automated, and guided workflow. The latest release now boasts more than 68 clinical applications for 7 modalities including CT, MR, Ultrasound, Mammography and iXR.

"Radiology has a unique ability to influence and improve outcomes. Today there is so much data available, but its full potential is not often realized," said Jeroen Tas, CEO, Healthcare Informatics Solutions and Services, Philips. "Advances in digital health technology now allow us to integrate clinical data from multiple modalities and sources and make that data meaningful and quickly accessible to radiologists. Innovations like the new 3-D rendering of tumors in IntelliSpace Portal 8.0 can change the trajectory of a cancer patient's journey to support the best path to treatment."