Philips Collaboration Tackles Key Health Care Technology Issues

Philips and The Health Management Academy are teaming up for the next three years on an educational initiative to launch The Academy Philips Innovation Institute, which will allow executives from the nation’s leading health systems to collaboratively study the effects of delivery reform programs and help establish best practices. Moreover, as part of The Academy Collaboratives (The Collaboratives), Philips will act as a participant, bringing its expertise, insights and best practices to foster dialog and brainstorming in support of discussion by health care executives on key challenges facing U.S. health systems. These include discussions around population health management (PHM), big data, cybersecurity, Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and consumerization.

The Academy Philips Innovation Institute is the latest Philips effort to drive health care transformation, which includes working with leading academic institutions. In addition, Philips is helping to establish best practices in population health management as part of large-scale vendor partnerships with health systems, like Bon Secours Charity Health System, part of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network. Working with key Academy partners like Banner Health on industry leading technologies around connected care, and pilot projects such as the Intensive Ambulatory Care Program and Tele-iCU, Philips has helped Banner reduce hospital admissions by nearly 50 percent in part by managing high-cost patients through Philips’ telehealth program. These best practices can also be shared with other Academy members.

Philips showcased its broad range of population health management, acute healthcare informatics and personal health solutions, fully integrated in a highly secure, cloud-based ecosystem at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual Meeting and Exhibition.