Philips Teams Up with The Texas A&M University System to Establish Center for Global Health & Innovation
June 10 2016 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
- Collaboration to drive innovation in
population health management for Southern Texas, emergency medical
service response and biosurveillance
- Expands on Philips’ collaborative
efforts with major academic institutions to drive innovations that
can help build healthy societies
- Joint projects to help establish new
healthcare technologies, solutions and services that support One
Health initiatives
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and The Texas A&M
University System Chancellor John Sharp today announced a
collaboration aimed at developing population health solutions as
part of the Healthy South Texas pilot project, creating integrated
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) technologies for more efficient
and effective coordination of response efforts, and developing
point-of-care diagnostics and biosurveillance to help avoid
epidemics and pandemics.
This latest Philips effort comes on the heels of other recent
research agreements with leading institutions to research
interventional oncology and new methods of measuring intracranial
pressure.
Healthy South Texas is a $10 million pilot project, funded by
the Texas legislature, that is delivering preventive health care to
27 South Texas counties by using a combination of county extension
agents and health experts from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Service and the Texas A&M Health Science Center. The project is
focused on the prevention of diabetes, asthma and infectious
diseases.
As part of the collaboration, Philips and The Texas A&M
University System will establish The Center for Global Health and
Innovation on campus, an open innovation environment that will
foster public-private partnerships to rapidly design, develop,
prototype, and showcase healthcare solutions. Texas A&M
University has led the nation in agriculture-related research
expenditures for three consecutive years and the Center would allow
Philips to explore other opportunities in health care based on
research at TheTexas A&M AgriLife System.
“Many of today’s problems are too complicated and expensive to
be addressed by the public sector alone,” said Chancellor Sharp.
“Public-private partnerships can show the way for addressing issues
such as health care in a collaborative way that benefits our
citizens, both as health care consumers and taxpayers.”
The collaboration will focus on three main project areas:
- Healthy South Texas Population
Health Initiative (HST) - The main goal of the HST program is
to build a robust and replicable foundation for prevention,
community outreach, and engagement. The program will also extend
wellness services by expanding and enhancing disease prevention and
control programs to every citizen of South Texas. Philips and Texas
A&M University System will look to scale and replicate these
best practice models of population health management nationally and
globally.
- EMS Integrated Solutions – Aimed
at increasing real-time visibility into medical resources and
availability, the program will co-develop holistic solutions that
can help support emergency medical coordinators, increasing
efficiency and efficacy. The program will include developing a
platform for coordination of EMS supplies and service, as well as
solutions that leverage Philips decision-support and analytics
technologies to help State, City and Municipal administrators
prepare for, respond to, and recover from major medical disasters.
Training programs on these new and existing technologies will also
be included.
- Point-of-Care Diagnostics and
Biosurveillance – By combining Philips expertise in
point-of-care diagnostics for patients with The Texas A&M
University System’s expertise in animal biosurveillance, the
collaboration seeks to establish an integrated network for
monitoring infectious diseases and help to establish standards for
a One Health approach. The One Health concept recognizes that the
health of humans is connected to both the health of animals and the
environment, and it is recognized that greater collaboration
between healthcare providers focused on each of these areas can
prevent public health threats.
According to Dr. Mark Hussey, Vice Chancellor and Dean of the
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 70 percent of all
emerging diseases are transmitted from animals to humans, which
fits The Texas A&M University System’s expertise, whether in
detecting or treating diseases, manufacturing vaccines or educating
the public through the Healthy South Texas pilot.
“At Philips, we are committed to building a healthy society by
improving the lives of 3 billion people by 2025, working in
collaboration with world-class organizations like The Texas A&M
University System to understand how we can really impact
communities: from outreach programs focused on healthy living and
prevention, to understanding how we can improve our ability to
react to health threats,” said Hans Aloys-Wischmann, head of
Philips Research for North America. “This program puts us
shoulder-to-shoulder with those who are on the front line of care,
giving us unprecedented insight into developing real-life
applications and solutions that can make a difference in human
health on both a local and global scale.”
About Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA)
is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people's health and enabling better outcomes across
the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to
diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced
technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to
deliver integrated solutions. The company is a leader in
diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient
monitoring and health informatics, as well as
in consumer health and home care.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips' health technology
portfolio generated 2015 sales of EUR 16.8 billion and employs
approximately 69,000 employees with sales and services in more than
100 countries. News about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
About The Texas A&M University SystemThe Texas
A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher
education in the nation, with a budget of $4.2 billion. Through a
statewide network of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a
comprehensive health science center, the Texas A&M System
educates more than 140,000 students and makes more than 22 million
additional educational contacts through service and outreach
programs each year. System-wide, research and development
expenditures exceeded $946 million in FY 2015 and helped drive the
state’s economy.
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