Philips, Northwell Health partner on patient monitoring

Philips (NYSE:PHG) announced today that it entered into an agreement with Northwell Health to help the health system standardize patient monitoring.

This seven-year agreement aims to enhance patient care and improve patient outcomes while driving interoperability and data innovation. It allows Northwell Health to lay the foundation for an enterprise-wide platform. Additionally, it enables the support of innovative technologies as they evolve. That offers Northwell the flexibility to scale patient monitoring systems quickly and efficiently, Philips said.

Under the agreement, Northwell adopts Philips’ patient monitoring platform to enhance patient and staff experience as well as outcomes.

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As New York’s largest healthcare provider, Northwell Health has 83,000 employees, 21 hospitals and 850 outpatient facilities.

“With the new system, we wanted something that could leverage our existing IT infrastructure and allow Northwell to offer cybersecurity, while also building in redundancy with local availability,” said Phyllis McCready, VP and chief procurement officer for Northwell Health. “The new Philips system gives us an enterprise-wide platform that centralizes our patient monitoring and allows us to see what is happening at each bedside.

“The innovative approach is extensible and allows us to give the communities we serve the very latest technology, while helping us to deliver a better patient and staff experience and better outcomes.”

With Philips’ patient monitoring platform, Northwell now has a vendor-agnostic system that can leverage its existing infrastructure. It also has the Philips software evolution services to standardize care.

“As forward-thinking health systems like Northwell Health take an enterprise-wide approach to healthcare IT, we can help take the guesswork out of the technology and help them to standardize their systems, with an open, interoperable architecture that can break down barriers to integration and simplify workflow for care providers,” said Jeff DiLullo, chief market leader of Philips North America. “Their new patient monitoring system can help minimize manual tasks, give staff a centralized view of patients, and harness the power of massive amounts of data by using AI to provide actionable clinical insights – all of which are helping them to deliver a better patient and staff experience, lower costs and contribute toward the goal of improving outcomes.”

Original Article: (https://www.massdevice.com/philips-northwell-health-partner-patient-monitoring/)