Royal Philips and salesforce.com have sealed a strategic alliance to deliver an open, cloud-based healthcare platform, which combines the companies’ strengths in medical technology, clinical applications, clinical informatics, enterprise cloud computing, innovation and customer engagement.
At the center of the platform is patient relationship management, which would allow caregivers to collaborate closely in support of their patients.
The platform is also expected to enable medical device and data interoperability or 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 - Philips eCareCoordinator and Philips eCareCompanion.
These are collaboration applications that allows 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 the US.
“With this strategic alliance, Philips is making great strides to deliver real-time, digital healthcare solutions,” said Frans van Houten, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Philips . “Healthcare data exists in many different forms and in many different systems today. Together with salesforce.com, we have a tremendous opportunity to reshape and optimize the way healthcare is delivered and provide better access to data across the continuum of care.”
Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com, said creating an open health platform and ecosystem would benefit everyone that cares about health.
Philips and salesforce.com envision that apps will cover the continuum of care: from self-care and prevention, to diagnosis and treatment through recovery and wellness.