AMSTERDAM, Feb. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Featuring new and enhanced connected health offerings
at the 2017 HIMSS
Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS17), Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG,AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health
technology, will showcase a broad range of population
health management, acute healthcare informatics and personal
health solutions, fully integrated in a highly secure,
cloud-based ecosystem. Visitors to the Philips booth (#2105)
will experience a comprehensive suite of interoperable
intelligent solutions delivering advanced data and analytics to
help support informed, value-based care decisions from the hospital
into the home. Prominently featured will be Philips HealthSuite, a
cloud-enabled connected health ecosystem of products, programs and
services that seamlessly work together to empower personalized
health and continuous care across the health continuum from
prevention and healthy living, to diagnosis and treatment and home
care.
"With more than 100 years of health technology experience under
our belts, Philips is uniquely positioned to lead Population Health
Management, addressing key concerns of health systems who continue
to struggle to reduce costs and improve the quality of care and
patient satisfaction," said Carla Kriwet, Chief Business
Leader, Connected Care and Health Informatics, Philips.
"By delivering advanced healthcare informatics and
intelligent solutions in a secure ecosystem that embrace
cross-industry connectivity standards, providers can now leverage
data in new ways that are easily accessible, contextually relevant
and actionable at the point of care."
Personal and Population Health Management Solutions
featured at the booth will include the latest in population health
analytics, chronic disease prevention and management, predictive
analytics, enterprise telehealth, home monitoring, and sleep and
respiratory care.
- With the acquisition of Wellcentive, Philips brings deep
expertise in aggregating and analyzing patient data to improve
health outcomes inside and outside the hospital walls. Philips
Wellcentive analyzes 1.5 billion data points each month, to
gain actionable insights, serving 35 million US patients, and
managing 120,000 patient populations across 50 states.
- Philips is enhancing its personal health programs with
the launch of Jovia Coach, a smartphone app that combines
technology with human coaching for people at-risk of type 2
diabetes. The program supports participants to adopt the dietary,
lifestyle and exercise habits that could help to prevent type 2
diabetes.
- Philips advanced telehealth and eICU solutions are
transforming critical care to help save lives and lower costs. The
Philips eICU Program with centralized bed management control
has increased case volume by up to 44 percent and improved
contribution margins by up to 665 percent, or $52.7 million.
- Philips continuous care and home monitoring solutions
help patients stay healthier at home, and connected to caregivers
around the clock. Philips Lifeline is the number one medical
alert device in the US with more than 7.5 million people served
since its inception, while momentum for Philips CareSage
predictive analytics technology continues to grow in supporting
discharged patients in their home.
Philips Healthcare Informatics Solutions deliver
actionable insights to support more confident clinical decision
support and improved diagnostics. Offerings include adaptive
intelligence, integrated healthcare informatics, critical care
analytics, automated early warning scoring, radiation dose
management, and precision medicine solutions for oncology,
including genomics.
- Philips will debut IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition, an
industry-first managed service for hospital-wide healthcare
informatics. The platform integrates Philips IntelliSpace portfolio
into a scalable solution for clinical informatics and data
management. The end-to-end managed service for healthcare IT is
based on pay per use with built in risk sharing. It helps hospitals
to further improve quality of care while meeting the evolving
challenges of budget constraints and the management,
interoperability, security and value maximization of health data
and IT platforms.
- Philips IntelliVue Guardian Solution, designed to
aid clinicians in the early detection of subtle signs of patient
deterioration in the general care ward, has now been cleared by the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with the Philips
Wearable Biosensor, a medical-grade, self-adhesive, single
patient-use wireless device worn discreetly on the chest that
automatically and continuously measures key vital signs, including
respiratory rate to alert caregivers to intervene quickly.
- Philips IntelliSpace Genomics provides a secure
healthcare informatics solution that integrates genomic information
with full patient context to empower clinicians with precision
diagnostics and therapeutics across hospitals. The solution,
powered by Philips HealthSuite, delivers real-time, actionable
diagnostic information - including raw sequencing data, up-to-date
in silico genomic databases, clinical data and knowledge
databases, longitudinal patient records, medical images and
pathology data - to physicians and specialists for therapy planning
at the point of care.
- Philips Illumeo is a newly launched imaging and
informatics technology with adaptive intelligence* that redefines
and enhances how radiologists interpret and share medical images.
The intelligent software is the first to combine contextual
awareness capabilities with advanced data analytics to augment the
work of the radiologist.
Executives Discuss Population Health, Key Challenges Facing
Industry
Philips customers, partners and thought leaders
will host more than 20 discussions at the Philips booth to address
the latest trends in population health, care coordination, personal
health, healthcareinformatics and cloud technologies. Topics
include Big Data and Predictive Analytics Improving
Patient Safety, featuring Dr. Kevin C.
Dellsperger, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Augusta University
Health; Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Healthcare,
featuring Dr. Eliot Siegel,
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, University
of Maryland Medical Center; Treating High Cost Patients
with Predictive Analytics, featuring Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Vice President, Connected
Health, Partners HealthCare; and more. The full schedule is
available at: www.philips.com/himss.
Beyond the show floor, Philips will have a significant presence
at the HX360TM forum co-located at HIMSS17. Featured
keynote and panel discussions include:
- What If You Gave A Healthcare Innovation Party, and No One
Came?, featuring Roy Smythe, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Health
Informatics for Philips, Monday, February
20 at 11:45 a.m. ET.
- The Journey to Continuous health: A Perspective on
Population Health Management, featuring Tom Zajac, CEO of
Population Health for Philips, Tuesday,
February 21 at 10:45 a.m.
ET.
- Views from the Top: Improving Patient Outcomes and Health
Economics through Connected Health Innovations, where Philips
Jeroen Tas, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer for Philips will
be joined by Dr. Kevin C. Dellsperger of Augusta University Health
in a discussion on how AUH is redesigning care paths with wearable
biosensors, Tuesday, February 21 at
11:30 a.m.
For more information on Philips' presence at the Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual
Meeting and Exhibition, including Philips participation in the
Interoperability Showcase, Connected Health Experience and Medical
Device Security Symposium, visit www.philips.com/himss and follow
@PhilipsLiveFrom for #HIMSS17 updates throughout the event.
* Adaptive intelligence is seen as an emerging concept of
combining domain specific models and knowledge (e.g. in the field
of Radiology) and Artificial Intelligence to create an adaptive and
contextual experience, anticipating users and augmenting their
work. The current release of Philips Illumeo exhibits the first
step into Adaptive Intelligence.
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O'Reilly
Philips Group Communications
(o) 978-659-2638 (m) 978-221-8919
Kathy.oreilly@philips.com
Twitter: @kathyoreilly
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. Headquartered in the Netherlands, 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.
Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2016 sales of
EUR 17.4 billion and employs
approximately 71,000 employees with sales and services in more than
100 countries. News about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
To view the original version on PR Newswire,
visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/philips-spotlights-connected-technology-predictive-analytics-software-and-artificial-intelligence-advancing-population-health-and-precision-medicine-at-himss-2017-300409343.html
SOURCE Royal Philips