AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global
leader in health technology, today announced the debut of
FocusPoint, a network application management system to help improve
biomedical and IT department productivity. The new technology
provides operational alerts and statistical data to support the
entire health ecosystem, from the IT department to the biomedical
staff, allowing providers to increase system uptime and reduce
costs associated with maintaining and servicing Philips medical
devices, applications and networks. As the centerpiece of Philips
remote-enabled services, FocusPoint builds on Philips' leadership
in patient monitoring with solutions tailored to specific customer
needs, and integrating with the provider's existing IT and
biomedical systems and procedures.
As the shift toward value-based care continues, health systems
are choosing to incorporate IT solutions into their hospital
staff's workflow to help support better use of resources, improve
outcomes and optimize care. Depending on the size of a health
system, there can be hundreds to thousands of medical devices and
network equipment, where IT and biomedical staff have little
visibility into the back-end of multiple systems. Providers lack
near real-time performance metrics and troubleshooting capabilities
that can greatly impact the health system.
"With the constantly growing amount of medical equipment in our
customers' health systems, it can be challenging for staff to keep
track of required equipment maintenance and pinpoint minor
operational issues before bigger problems arise," said
Felix Baader, Business Leader,
Monitoring & Analytics at Philips. "Designed with an intuitive,
web-based interface, FocusPoint gives providers operational insight
through an easy-to-use dashboard that unifies data from Philips
medical devices to help pinpoint problems and deliver actionable
insights to intervene quickly."
FocusPoint acts as a central point for the provider, showing
which solutions are installed and running on the customer's
network. For support extending beyond the hospital walls, Philips
offers a dedicated team to support the health system on-site as
well as remotely to help the provider leverage the information from
FocusPoint and transition it into improved efficiencies. FocusPoint
will be available in the U.S. in the first half of 2018.
Philips designs solutions to aggregate data from across the
health system to help improve interoperability, and drive
operational and financial efficiency. During HIMSS 2018,
Kevin Vadenais, Senior Product
Management Leader at Philips, will lead a panel
discussion on "Healthcare IT – Trends, Challenges, and Solutions
for an Ever-Growing Enterprise," on Tuesday,
March 6 at 4 p.m. at the
Philips booth #3812. For more information on the panel and Philips'
full suite of integrated patient monitoring solutions, follow
@PhilipsLiveFrom and visit www.philips.com/himss.
For further information, please contact:
Kathy O'Reilly
Senior Group Press Officer, Philips
Tel: +1-978-659-2638
Mobile: +1-978-221-8919
Email: kathy.oreilly@philips.com
Silvie Casanova
Director of Communications, Philips North America
Tel: + 1-781-879-0692
Email: silvie.casanova@philips.com
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX:
PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health
continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis,
treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and
deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated
solutions. Headquartered in the
Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging,
image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as
well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health
technology portfolio generated 2017 sales of EUR 17.8 billion and employs approximately 74,000
employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News
about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
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