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Philips and Salesforce.com has announced a strategic alliance to deliver an open, cloud-based healthcare platform. Leveraging Philips’ positions in medical technology, clinical applications and clinical informatics and salesforce.com’s experiece in enterprise cloud computing and customer engagement.
Patient relationship management will be at the center of the envisioned platform, allowing care givers to collaborate closely in support of their patients. The platform will enable medical device and data interoperability -- the collection of data and subsequent analysis to enhance clinical decision making by professionals and enabling patients to take a more active role in managing their personal health.
The collaboration has already resulted in two clinical applications to be launched on the new platform later this summer- Philips eCareCoordinator and Philips eCareCompanion.
These care collaboration applications will allow the care team to monitor patients with chronic conditions in their homes and will facilitate Philips’ Hospital to Home clinical programs, such as Banner iCare, being piloted at Banner Health, a pioneer accountable care organization in Arizona, USA. Similar telehealth-based care delivery models for hospitals utilizing the Philips eICU program were shown to reduce mortality by 26 percent and length of stay by 20 percent in a recent large, multi-center study.
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