Philips, Northwell Health Begin Patient Monitoring Partnership

Philips and Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in New York, began a seven-year agreement to help the health system standardize patient monitoring, boost patient care and improve outcomes while driving interoperability and data innovation.
 
Northwell Health will be able to lay the groundwork for a future-proof, enterprise-wide platform and support innovative technologies as they evolve. Northwell will also have the flexibility to scale their patient monitoring systems quickly and efficiently.
 
Northwell Health has 83,000 employees, 21 hospitals, 850 outpatient facilities, and a residency program with over 1,900 resident and fellows. All this helps them address a service area of 12 million people, treating over two million patients a year, and delivering 30,000 babies.
 
“With the new system, we wanted something that could leverage our existing IT infrastructure and allow Northwell to offer cybersecurity, while also building in redundancy with local availability,” Phyllis McCready, VP and chief procurement officer for Northwell Health told the press. “The new Philips system gives us an enterprise-wide platform that centralizes our patient monitoring and allows us to see what is happening at each bedside. The innovative approach is extensible and allows us to give the communities we serve the very latest technology, while helping us to deliver a better patient and staff experience and better outcomes.”
 
Using Philips’ patient monitoring platform, Northwell Health has a vendor-agnostic system that will leverage the health system’s current network infrastructure, along with Philips Software Evoution Services, to standardize care and make sure Northwell is at the head of monitoring innovation.
 
“As forward-thinking health systems like Northwell Health take an enterprise-wide approach to healthcare IT, we can help take the guesswork out of the technology and help them to standardize their systems, with an open, interoperable architecture that can break down barriers to integration and simplify workflow for care providers,” said Jeff DiLullo, chief market leader of Philips North America. “Their new patient monitoring system can help minimize manual tasks, give staff a centralized view of patients, and harness the power of massive amounts of data by using AI to provide actionable clinical insights—all of which are helping them to deliver a better patient and staff experience, lower costs and contribute toward the goal of improving outcomes.”