Philips announced an agreement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) to implement Philips’ eICU program technology. The program, which will go live in July 2019, aims to help reduce mortality, length of stay, and ventilation days while providing patients with the care they need, wherever they are located. Following the success of similar programs in the Americas, the UK, Australia, and the Middle East, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is the latest health system to incorporate the Philips eICU
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Philips Launches Its Smallest Portable Nebulizer in North America
Today, Philips launched InnoSpire Go, its smallest and lightest portable hand-held nebulizer. This innovative technology not only provides portable, fast and effective medication delivery but is also proven to reduce treatment time by up to 25 percent. The easy-to-use and virtually silent InnoSpire Go puts hospital-grade nebulizer technology into the hands of the user for portable, fast and effective medication delivery. InnoSpire Go is available in the United States and additional countries
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New Philips App Enhances Mobility for Caregivers with Real-Time Access to Patient Deterioration
Philips today announced it has expanded its General Care Solution with the new Philips IntelliVue GuardianSoftware mobile client application. The mobile app has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and leverages the capabilities of Philips’ General Care solution, which includes Early Warning Scoring (EWS), to provide clinicians with the benefit of mobility and optimized workflows. In some hospital medical-surgical units, patient information and color-coded early warning scores are written on a
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Philips Launches Ambient Experience to Reduce Pre-Op Stress & Enhance Post-Op Recovery Environment
Philips' ambient experience offers a personalized environment for positive distraction and active relaxation to reduce stress pre & post medical procedures. Royal Philips, a global provider of health technology, today announced the introduction of its Ambient Experience preparation & recovery bay in the U.S. Combining the creative use of colored dynamic lighting and video, this new offering provides patients with a uniquely personalized environment that delivers positive distraction and
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Augusta University Health & Philips Partner to Streamline Lung Cancer Diagnosis with Hybrid Operating Room
Today, Philips and Augusta University Health announced a long-term partnership to expedite the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer with a hybrid operating room. Knowing early detection is key to a patient’s survival, the hybrid operating room combines three techniques into a single appointment with a multidisciplinary team, eliminating the delays of multiple clinical visits. The hybrid operating room pilot has shown promising results, such as:- Prior to this, it could take up to six weeks
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Philips & Children’s Health of Dallas Sign 15-Year $75M to Innovate Their Patient Monitoring & PACS System
Philips and Children’s Health of Dallas announced a 15-year, $75 million strategic agreement to innovate their patient monitoring and PACs systems for nearly one million patients in North Texas.Through this agreement, Children’s Health will achieve standardized patient monitoring through Philip’s leading patient monitoring technologies, including the Intellivue X3 patient monitor, which puts critical patient information at clinicians’ fingertips in an easy to understand format. This allows staff
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Jackson Health Signs 11-Year Enterprise Patient Monitoring Service Deal with Philips
Philips and Jackson Health System sign groundbreaking 11-year agreement for Enterprise Monitoring as a Service that will define revolutionary healthcare delivery business model, reduce costs, standardize enterprise patient monitoring & management, & improve patient & staff satisfactionPhilips and Jackson Health System announced the world’s first long-term strategic partnership based on an Enterprise Monitoring as a Service (EMaaS) model. The 11-year partnership, aimed at pioneering
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Philips, Netherlands to Build Ethiopia’s First Specialized Cardiac Care Center
Philips, a global leader in health technology, and the governments of Ethiopia and the Netherlands has signed a seven-year agreement to build Ethiopia’s first specialized Cardiac Care Center to address the critical shortage of cardiology services in Ethiopia.Under the terms of the agreement, valued at approximately Euro 40 million, Philips will be responsible for the full turnkey design, construction, equipping and commissioning of the hospital location, as well as staff education and equipment
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Philips, AHA & UPMC Launch $30M Fund to Spur Health Innovation in Heart Disease and Stroke Care
Philips, American Heart Association (AHA) and UPMC’s announcement to launch Cardeation Capital, a new $30 million venture fund designed to spur healthcare innovation in heart disease and stroke care. With cardiovascular disease costs projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2035, this initiative will play a critical role in transforming care for a healthier, less costly tomorrow.The fund will be managed by Aphelion Capital where each company has committed $10 million and will work together to identify
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Philips and Emory Healthcare Launch Remote Intensive Care Monitoring Program in Australia
Today, Philips and Emory Healthcare have announced the launch of a (eICU) remote intensive care monitoring program based at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia. Through this program, Emory Healthcare will use advanced technology that enables clinicians to monitor multiple critically ill patients remotely, alert ICU staff to any issues and ensure early intervention to improve outcomes. Based on the successes of a pilot program Emory Healthcare ran out of Sydney in 2016, this partnership is
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