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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Philips Acquires Sleep Apnea Wearable Nightbalance to Expand its Sleep & Respiratory Care Portfolio
Philips announced that it has acquired NightBalance, a Netherlands-based digital health startup that has developed a sleep apnea wearable that is used to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea and positional snoring. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious disorder in which breathing pauses and re-starts during sleep. Common symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome are snoring and excessive tiredness during the daytime.When most of these pauses in breathing occur when you lie on your
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Philips Partners With Mass General to Advance Digital Pathology Adoption
Philips announced it’s collaborating with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) to enable research, support clinical diagnosis and help advance digital pathology adoption across the U.S. through the implementation of the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution.This collaboration builds on digital pathology’s growing momentum in recent years, due to its ability to enable highly automated workflows that allow pathologists to compile clinically actionable
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Philips and Samsung Partner to Connect Samsung’s IoT Platform to Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform
Philips and Samsung announced plans for a strategic partnership to connect Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform to the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform. This collaboration will ultimately allow the Samsung ARTIK ecosystem of connected devices to safely access and share information with Philips’ cloud platform. Healthcare application developers will be able to realize interoperable connected health solutions using integrated data sets and innovative HealthSuite services such as advanced health
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Northwell Health Shows Positive Impact in ED with Philips Wearable Biosensor
Northwell Health announces it has improved clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction collaborating with Philips on a comprehensive IT strategy. Leveraging Philips Virtual Hospital Services portfolio – including eICU technology and a comprehensive Telestroke program – Northwell has seen a reduction in mortality in the ICU and improved access to life-saving stroke care, as well as increased patient satisfaction in the Emergency Department (ED) through a pilot program featuring the Philips
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