We focused on connected healthcare solutions to address important issues that faced IT professionals, administrators and clinicians. The most important areas where technology solutions are required include: patient engagement and adherence, clinician mobility, population health, and alarm fatigue among others.
Acute and general health care: The point of technology assisting centralized monitoring, single point operability, effective alarm management, and clinician mobility, is to help reduce the challenges that are faced by clinicians and not aggravate or overwhelm them instead. Home Monitoring: Through home monitoring patients suffering from chronic illness can be extended continuous care without them being needed to stay at the hospital facilities. With the help of wearable devices their stats can be continuously kept in check and in case any anomaly is noticed steps can be taken to correct them. Sleep and respiratory care solutions: By understanding consumer needs one can extend healthcare services to ensure healthier patients and best practices for certain processes and procedures. One of them being addressing complex sleep conditions among some patients that can be eased with a focus on information analytics, patient compliance and data management. Enterprise Telehealth - This technology looks at leveraging telehealth enabled programs, computer-based algorithms, and patient data to remotely monitor and address patient health and also reduce costs and overheads by decreasing costly re-admissions. Imaging and Informatics: By streamlining the handling, archiving, and management of patient data in the form of radiology, cardiology, and pathology reports made possible through seamless interactions with the main hospital’s information systems, health care providers can strike a healthy balance in clinical work flow, improving the quality of care extended to the patients, and the economic value attached to the entire process. Connected health: Finally in the same lines at imaging and informatics, allowing the integration of data and analysis of the same will help provide better patient care and support and also lead to better patient engagement. The Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform offers a secure cloud based-IT platform that allows secured collection of patient data, pertaining to health and lifestyle. |
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