Northwell Health this week announced a new seven-year agreement with Philips designed to standardize patient monitoring technology across its 21 hospitals and 850 outpatient facilities.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Health systems officials say that by adopting an enterprise-wide approach to its IT systems, Northwell hopes to enhance patient care and improve patient outcomes while also advancing patient outcomes. data interoperability and innovation.
Philips’ patient monitoring platform is vendor-independent, allows use of Northwell’s existing network infrastructure, the company said, and uses artificial intelligence to support clinical decisions.
Jeff DiLullo, market manager for Philips North America, said in Tuesday’s announcement that secure, interoperable architecture can also break down barriers to system integration and simplicity. clinical workflow.
“The new Philips system gives us an enterprise-wide platform that focuses on monitoring our patients and allows us to see what’s happening at each hospital bed,” said Phyllis McCready, vice president and director of procurement for Northwell Health, added in a statement.
“The innovative approach is scalable and allows us to provide the communities we serve with the latest technology while helping us deliver better patient and staff experiences and outcomes. better.”
Northwell Health may also use Philips software development services to develop its patient monitoring capabilities over time.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on many healthcare providers, with even the largest healthcare system struggling to treat the increased demand. They used the parking lot and other large non-traditional spaces to expand the treatment space and the digital care service flourished.
Across the country, health systems are now using remote patient monitoring platforms to address some of the operational challenges they face as they move forward in the post-pandemic era.
Zsolt Kulcsar, chief medical officer of Fort Myers, Florida-based Lee Health, the impact of the pandemic shows that healthcare providers need patient data to reduce hospital admissions .
“We can’t make data-driven decisions because we don’t have blood pressure, we don’t have oxygen saturation, we don’t have weight, we don’t have the data to go with the decision-making. clinical. “
With RPM launched in September 2022, Lee Health can care for patients with fewer inpatient services – from 17% of patients being monitored remotely to 3-5%, he said. Healthcare IT News in January.
To help exhausted staff serve a growing number of patients, health systems of all sizes are looking to AI to increase efficiency and better focus on delivering care to improve service delivery. patient results.
AI, while controversial for clinical decision support, is now widely used to improve many healthcare processes from management to radiology. Analytics can continuously update patient views and provide insights into clinical workflows and help coordinate services.
ON PROFILE
“Their new patient monitoring system can help reduce manual tasks, give staff a centralized view of the patient, and harness the power of massive amounts of data using intelligence.” artificially to deliver actionable clinical insights – all of this is helping them deliver better patient and staff care, reduce costs and contribute to goals improve results,” said DiLullo of Northwell’s new partnership.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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Jennifer Gaudet Hefele will provide more details during the HIMSS23 session “Leveraging Crowd Intelligence to Measure Healthcare Quality.” It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 3pm – 4pm CT at the South Building, 5th Floor, room S505.
