Health technology company Royal Philips showcased its latest enterprise informatics solutions at the HIMSS23 conference. The company’s AI-enabled, interoperable, and cloud-based solutions focus on integrated diagnostics, hospital and acute care, out-of-hospital and ambulatory care, and care management and operations. Philips also announced a partnership with AWS to bring its HealthSuite Imaging PACS to the cloud. Additionally, it hosted forums and introduced its latest Future Health Index global report exploring how healthcare leaders are using data and digital technology.
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has emphasized the crucial role of Enterprise Informatics in enabling care providers to focus their limited resources on achieving better patient outcomes. Philips provides software and hardware solutions that seamlessly integrate across care settings, workflows, and vendors, utilizing clinical and operational data to enhance productivity, streamline processes, and improve results.
Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Philips highlighted that “Digitization has unleashed a flood of data that presents a huge opportunity but is also overwhelming clinicians, nurses, and administrators.” Therefore, Philips focuses on clinicians, doctors, nurses, and others caring for patients to provide the right data at the right time, reducing the pressure on healthcare providers and helping them deliver better patient outcomes.
Philips showcased its latest AI-enabled, interoperable, and cloud-based enterprise informatics solutions at HIMSS23, enabling enterprise-wide, actionable insights at scale to improve outcomes. The solutions featured at HIMSS included the following key areas of focus:
Integrated diagnostics: Philips’ diagnostic informatics deliver efficient connected workflows, such as embedded reporting and AI-powered applications that eliminate manual processes. These solutions offer improved clinician experience, increased productivity, decreased staff workload and variability, and improved diagnostic accuracy. At HIMSS23, Philips highlighted its integrated diagnostics partnership with Saint-Joseph Hospital & Marie-Lannelongue Hospital to improve personalized cancer care.
Hospital and acute care: Philips’ virtual care, acute care management, and Capsule Surveillance solutions provide flexible enterprise-wide capabilities that support clinician mobility, data sharing, predictive analytics, alarm management, and system integration across hospital and critical care patient journeys. For example, Northwell Health recently adopted Philips’ patient monitoring platform to drive integration and innovation for a better patient and staff experience and improved outcomes.
Out-of-hospital and ambulatory care: Philips Virtual Care Management can help reduce pressure on hospital staff by decreasing emergency department visits by an average of 38%, as well as potential savings in the cost of care through better management of the chronic disease. The combination of hospital and cardiac ambulatory monitoring creates a powerful ecosystem of home-to-hospital and hospital-to-home care that allows clinicians to proactively diagnose and manage their patients.
Care management and operations: Imaging orchestration, enterprise performance analytics, and hospital virtual care solutions unite data, surveillance, and people to support healthcare organizations in making clinical, financial, and operational improvements. For example, Philips Imaging Orchestrator – ROCC is a vendor-neutral, multi-modality, multi-site telepresence solution that provides advanced tele-acquisition capabilities and seamlessly connects imaging experts at a command center with technologists at scanners across locations.
Philips also announced at HIMSS that it is partnering with AWS to bring Philips HealthSuite Imaging PACS to the cloud and advance AI-enabled tools to support clinicians. Throughout the week, Philips hosted forum sessions in its booth, featuring presentations from Philips executives, customers, and industry leaders. The latest Future Health Index, a global report commissioned by Philips and based on proprietary research exploring how healthcare leaders are harnessing the power of data and digital technology news, was also introduced during the event.
