Royal Philips and Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Life are partnering to advance personalized, connected healthcare, the companies announced Wednesday.
The companies will leverage Phillips’ connected health informatics and regulated healthcare cloud data management and analytics with Qualcomm’s medical-grade device connectivity and integration to enable both companies to provide enhanced, scalable care tools and services under one ecosystem.
Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform will provide medical device connectivity to Philips HealthSuite, which is the company’s cloud-enable health ecosystem of digital tools, apps and devices. Philips will use the 2net platform to connect both Philips and third-party medical devices.
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Further, the 2net Ecosystem will give Philips’ HealthSuite users access to Qualcomm medical devices, such as medication dispensers, biosensors, point of care self-tests and blood glucose meters.
"As the home is fast becoming a viable care setting, providers, home health agencies and other institutions are increasingly using connected care to reduce emergency care and readmissions of patients with chronic diseases," Jeroen Tas CEO, Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips, said in a statement. "We aim to help care providers to engage better with their patients and contribute to the goal of improving outcomes."
Philips HealthSuite will act as a secure, global data storage for Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform, which will allow the company to leverage HealthSuite’s data normalization, aggregation and analytics. Further, Qualcomm users will be able to build applications, integrate with EHRs, store data and manage consents and authorizations.
The 2net Platform, Hub and Mobile will also let HealthSuite users to customize connected care programs and add medical devices with a profile that will expand over time, which will allow for timely intervention, assist in diagnosis, personalize treatments and improve patient outcomes
“Patient self-management combined with connectivity to a care network is an emerging model that enables scalable chronic disease management for patients and providers,” Tas said.
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