AMSTERDAM and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31,
2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA)
and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary,
Qualcomm Life, Inc.,today announced a strategic technology
collaboration to advance connected health across the health
continuum -- from healthy living and prevention to chronic care
management and home care. The companies are teaming up to leverage
each other's respective leading capabilities – Philips' leadership
in connected health informatics and regulated health care cloud
data management and analytics, and Qualcomm Life's expertise in
secure, medical-grade device connectivity and integration. This
collaboration will enable both companies to offer care providers
enhanced, scalable, connected care solutions and services within a
secure global ecosystem.
Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform will serve as the medical device
connectivity solution for Philips HealthSuite, the company's
cloud-enabled health ecosystem of devices, apps and digital tools.
By joining the Qualcomm Life 2net Ecosystem, Philips provides its
HealthSuite users seamless access to a wide array of connected
medical devices including medication dispensers, medical grade
biosensors, ventilators, blood pressure monitors, point of care
self-tests, and blood glucose meters. Philips will leverage the
2net Platform to connect both Philips and third party medical
devices. Secure connectivity, data capture and transmission powered
by the 2net Platform, 2net Hub and 2net Mobile, will enable
HealthSuite users to customize and scale connected care programs,
add additional medical devices and gain a fuller patient profile
over longer periods of time, with the aim to support timely
intervention, assist in diagnosis, personalize treatment plans and
help contribute to the goal of improving patient outcomes. An
example of an implementation of this connectivity collaboration
will go live shortly with Philips' Trilogy ventilator family and
Care Orchestrator care management application to advance care for
patients with COPD and other respiratory conditions.
As part of the collaboration, Qualcomm Life will leverage
Philips HealthSuite as a global, secure, data management and
storage solution for its medical-grade 2net Platform, allowing
Qualcomm Life to tap into the value of health data through data
normalization, aggregation and analytics. Qualcomm Life customers
can now have direct access to build applications, integrate with
electronic health record systems, store normalized data, run
analytics, and manage authorization and consents in a compliant and
secure environment.
"As the home is fast becoming a viable care setting, care
providers, home health agencies, and other institutions are
increasingly using connected care to reduce emergency care,
readmissions of patients with chronic diseases," said Jeroen Tas,
CEO, Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips. "By
collaborating with Qualcomm Life and leveraging its connectivity
and wireless expertise, we aim to help care providers to engage
better with their patients and contribute to the goal of improving
outcomes. Patient self-management combined with 24/7 connectivity
to a care network is an emerging model that enables scalable
chronic disease management for patients and providers."
"An undeniable leader in the health care technology industry,
Philips brings a deep technology expertise to their health care
initiatives, and by joining forces we aim to deliver intelligent
care to patients and providers at scale," said Rick Valencia,
president, Qualcomm Life, Inc. "We are thrilled to be working with
Philips, enabling Qualcomm Life to continue to grow its ecosystem
and ultimately serve as the underpinning of the Internet of Medical
Things."
Jeroen Tas and Rick Valencia will
deliver keynote presentations at Qualcomm Life's connected health
ecosystem conference, Connect 2016, on August 31, in San
Diego, CA. For more information please visit
http://www.qualcommlife.com/connect/ and follow @PhilipsLiveFrom,
@QualcommLife and the event hashtag, #qualcommconnect.
For more information on Philips HealthSuite, please visit:
http://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/innovation/about-health-suite.
For more information on Qualcomm Life 2net, please visit:
http://www.qualcommlife.com/mobile-medical-solutions.
About Royal
Philips
Royal 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, headquartered in the Netherlands, is a leader in diagnostic
imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health
informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. 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 Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated
(NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation
wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's
licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent
portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm
Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially
all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions,
and substantially all of its products and services businesses,
including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 30 years,
Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital
communications, linking people everywhere more closely to
information, entertainment and each other. For more information,
visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Qualcomm and 2net are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated,
registered in the United States
and other countries. Other product and brand names may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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
Jamie Eisinger
Qualcomm Life, Inc.
Tel.: +1 858-845-1033
E-mail: jeisinge@qti.qualcomm.com
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