Most healthcare leaders agree that the road toward innovation is not a road you travel alone. Progress requires deep and trusted partnerships, grounded in collaboration, with each partner sharing in both rewards and risks.
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This is particularly true for health systems when it comes to choosing an IT vendor. Recognizing this, Philips works side-by-side with healthcare customers to identify and implement meaningful solutions customized to each organization's needs and challenges.
Philips has partnered with leading healthcare institutions nationwide to drive clinical value through an array of unique relationships. For 30 years, Philips has worked with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute on a number of innovative solutions, including an image-guided cardiovascular platform, 3-D abdominal imaging and an endovascular suite to advance IT integration and improve workflow and patient care. Greenbrae, Calif.-based Marin General Hospital and Philips collaborated on a technology-enabled health center that houses a comprehensive breast health program with patient-centered environments, from public spaces to imaging and procedure areas. Philips 15-year partnership with Augusta (Ga.) University Health focuses on optimizing Augusta's radiology suite and monitoring services to deliver patient-centric care.
"We tried to build these types of complex relationships with vendors in the past, but we were unsuccessful," said James Rawson, MD, professor of radiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta (Ga.) University. "When we began discussions with Philips, we saw a potential partner that was committed to making a new model of care. We found an alignment of values and strategic goals that includes working with our patients to improve their care."
Underpinning each of these partnerships is Philips' primary goal of simplifying health IT to improve productivity and experience for both patients and clinicians.
While there are many healthcare challenges to address, Philips prioritizes four areas of opportunity: simplifying data and insight gathering; driving improved treatment and outcomes; removing excess costs from the system; and giving patients and staff better experiences. They have developed solutions to achieve these goals in the hospital setting, the home and across populations.
In the hospital, Philips' integrated portfolio of products and solutions allows all care team members to view the patient's history from diagnosis through treatment, fostering collaboration and avoiding unnecessary or duplicative testing.
In the home, Philips' technology helps predict elderly patients at risk of needing emergency transport in the next 30 days and connecting them with more cost-effective interventions.
Across populations, Philips' data scientists map billions of data points to deliver an integrated, comprehensive view of almost the entire patient journey.
"The relationship we have with our customers is fundamentally changing," said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips. "We want to partner with you in thinking about how to improve people's lives further. We want to share with you our expertise in health and well-being, technology, information systems and business processes — and, more and more — we will be judged by the results you achieve."