AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced the growing
adoption of its predictive analytics engine CareSage with health
organizations across the U.S. such as Henry Ford Health
System, a leading comprehensive, integrated
U.S. health system, with whom the company recently signed an
agreement. Using Philips' Lifeline technology, CareSage enables
hospitals and health systems to manage their patient populations by
proactively identifying at-risk patients most likely to need an
emergency transport in the next 30 days, helping prevent avoidable
hospitalizations.
Since CareSage's commercial availability in the second half of
last year, eight U.S. health systems have signed on to support an
initial population of 6,500 elderly patients per month. Next to
Henry Ford Health System (Michigan), these systems include Roper St.
Francis (South Carolina),
Peninsula Regional Medical Center (Maryland), Carondelet
Home Care (Kansas/Missouri), Delmar Gardens Home Care
(Missouri) and Presence Care @
Home (Illinois).
CareSage provides analysis of real-time and historical data from
health care providers and Philips Lifeline's AutoAlert technology
to focus on senior patients when they return home after a hospital
visit or home health care period. The predictive analytics tool
identifies patients most likely to need to be transported to a
hospital within the next 30 days so clinicians can provide timely
intervention. Part of Philips' continued effort to support this
population, CareSage is being built on Philips' cloud-based
HealthSuite digital platform, a multivendor, open and scalable
Platform-as-a-Service that supports the development of
connected health solutions.
"Health systems continue to face increased pressures to reduce
costs, especially within a growing senior patient population living
with multiple chronic conditions that affect their lives and the
lives of their caregivers each day," said Jeroen Tas, CEO,
Connected Care and Health Informatics, Philips. "The enthusiasm we
are seeing for CareSage demonstrates the commitment of these
leading health care systems to better monitor and care for elderly
patients. Our forty years of experience in supporting seniors
combined with our deep knowledge in advanced analytics for patient
monitoring has enabled us to offer a powerful tool that provides
hospitals, health systems and clinicians with actionable insights
to help improve patient outcomes."
"As we continue to work towards improving patient care,
addressing the hospitalization rates of our at-risk elderly
patients is a critical step," said Mary
Hagen, e-Home Care Supervisor at Henry Ford Health System.
"Working with Philips to implement predictive analytics into the
home monitoring services that we offer our patients will help
identify those in need of early intervention and improve how we
deliver care to help patients stay out of the hospital and live
independently."
Seniors use more health care per capita than any other group
[1], and this will only increase as the population grows –
currently five percent of patients account for 50 percent of
Medicare health care spending [2]. By 2060, the number of Americans
aged 65 and older is expected to be 98 million [3], and poor care
transitions are a top cause of unnecessary readmissions, emergency
department visits and hospitalizations of seniors. As the industry
evolves toward a value-based care model, health systems are looking
to use predictive analytics to extend care to the home while
reducing costs and readmissions and providing better patient
outcomes for this high cost group.
Philips will be showcasing its CareSage technology at booth
#3416 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) 2016 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, taking place
Feb. 29 – March 4, at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, NV. For updates on Philips'
presence at HIMSS, follow @PhilipsLiveFrom and visit
www.philips.com/HIMSS for
For more information about CareSage, please visit:
www.lifeline.philips.com/business/caresage.
[1] "Medicare Spending By Year," US Government Spending,
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/medicare_spending_by_year
[2] United States Government Accountability
Office
[3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O'Reilly
Philips Group Communications
Tel.: +1 978-221-8919
E-mail: Kathy.oreilly@philips.com
Twitter: @kathyoreilly
Joost Maltha
Philips Healthcare Informatics, Solutions and Services
Tel. +31 6 10 55 8116
E-mail: joost.maltha@philips.com
Twitter: @joostmaltha
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104,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100
countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and
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