AMSTERDAM and DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 3,
2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA)
today announced it is further enabling connected health by signing
an agreement with Validic, a U.S.-based fast-growing company that
pioneers a technology platform for connectivity and access to
digital health data from clinical and remote-monitoring devices,
sensors, fitness equipment, wearables and patient wellness
applications.
The collaboration with Validic – whose platform reaches
approximately 223 million people in 47 countries – will offer
Philips opportunities to expand the breadth and depth of its
connected health solutions such as its Personal Health Programs,
Lifeline medical alert services and eCareCoordinator and
eCareCompanion eHealth applications with third-party device data.
These connected health solutions and services have been designed to
facilitate coordinated care across the health continuum from
healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, treatment and home
care. They have been built on Philips' HealthSuite digital
platform, an open cloud-based platform of services, capabilities
and tools that allows for the creation of the next generation of
connected health and wellness innovations.
"Being able to deliver the best care requires that healthcare
providers have a comprehensive view of each patient's health
condition," said Jeroen Tas, CEO, Connected Care and Health
Informatics, Philips. "Increasingly, health care is moving beyond
the walls of the hospital, enabled by connected devices to monitor
both health and care. We can now take a next step by securely
combining the data generated by someone's glucose meter and fitness
tracker with their clinical data, so that caregivers can discover
relevant and actionable insights for new models of personalized
health management of their patients. Our collaboration with Validic
helps to accelerate this step."
The Philips HealthSuite digital platform enables connected
health services by utilizing smart devices and mobile apps to help
people make more confident health and lifestyle-related decisions.
Through its integration capabilities with electronic medical
records and other clinical data sources it also supports health
systems in the delivery of care coordination solutions. Patients
and their care providers are given actionable and longitudinal
insight through the combination of clinical and personal health
data. The collaboration with Validic will further augment the
integration of consumer-generated personal health data from
multivendor fitness wearables, remote monitoring devices and health
apps, as well as medical devices like blood pressure cuffs, health
patches and glucose meters, into existing and new connected health
services.
"With a strong presence in both professional health care and
consumer health spaces, Philips understands the global impact of
people better managing and engaging with their health. They also
recognize the industry need for making this remotely collected
health data actionable for care providers," said Ryan Beckland, CEO
and co-founder of Validic. "Philips and Validic share a similar
vision on connected health and recognize the importance of
leveraging digital health data collected outside of the clinical
setting to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes."
The Philips HealthSuite digital platform supports enterprise
application development with services specialized for the secure
collection of health, wellness and clinical data, allowing for
aggregation, analysis and actionable insights. As new digital
health technologies rapidly become available, Philips' customers –
both patients and clinicians – will be able to accelerate the
adoption of connected health services by utilizing smart devices
and mobile apps to make more confident health and lifestyle-related
decisions. Philips also offers its HealthSuite digital platform as
a scalable and secure Platform-as-a-Service for custom connected
health application development and deployment.
For more information on how Philips is connecting care for
continuous health with its digital health solutions, visit the
Philips booth (#3416) at the HIMSS 2016 Annual Meeting and
Exhibition at the Sands Expo in Las
Vegas, February 29 – March
4.
Join Jeroen Tas for a Live Webinar on February 19 at 1:00 PM
EST on the topic of "Cloud Powering the Connected Health
Continuum," and hear more about the latest developments on
connected and integrated healthcare delivery, enabled by Philips'
HealthSuite digital platform.
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O'Reilly
Philips Group Communications
Tel.: +1 978-659-2638
E-mail: Kathy.Oreilly@philips.com
Twitter: @kathyoreilly
Joost Maltha
Philips Communications Healthcare Informatics, Solutions and
Services
Tel.: +31 610-55-8116
E-mail: Joost.Maltha@philips.com
Twitter: @JoostMaltha
Ashley Needham
Validic Global Communications
Tel. +1 919-423-0233
E-mail: ashley.needham@validic.com
About Royal
Philips
Royal Philips
(NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being
company, focused on improving people's lives through meaningful
innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and
Lighting. Headquartered in the
Netherlands, Philips posted 2015 sales of EUR 24.2 billion and employs approximately
104,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100
countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and
home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new
lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and
oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Validic
Validic provides the industry's leading
digital health platform connecting providers, pharmaceutical
companies, payers, wellness companies and healthcare IT vendors to
health data gathered from hundreds in-home clinical devices,
wearables and consumer healthcare applications. Reaching more than
223 million lives in 47 countries, its scalable, cloud-based
solution offers one connection to a continuously-expanding
ecosystem of consumer and clinical health data, delivering the
standardized and actionable insight needed to drive better health
outcomes and power improved population health, care coordination
and patient engagement initiatives. Validic was named to Gartner's
"Cool Vendors" list and received Frost & Sullivan's "Best
Practices and Best Value in Healthcare Information
Interoperability" and "Top 10 Healthcare Innovating Disruptor"
awards. To learn more about Validic, follow Validic on Twitter or
visit www.validic.com.
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