Philips and Marienhospital Stuttgart sign 10-year strategic partnership to improve patient care and efficiency
October 21 2020 - 04:00AM
Philips and Marienhospital Stuttgart sign 10-year strategic
partnership to improve patient care and efficiency
October 21, 2020
- Long-term agreement guarantees access to state-of-the-art
solutions, controls costs, and ensures security of future
investment
- Fully-integrated approach deploying Philips’ digital healthcare
solutions across multiple departments to enhance the experience of
Marienhospital Stuttgart’s patient and staff
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Stuttgart, Germany – Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health
technology, and Marienhospital Stuttgart (Germany) today signed a
10-year strategic partnership agreement to expand world-class
medicine at the hospital and provide integrated patient care. The
project will include renewal and ongoing development of the
hospital’s diagnostic imaging equipment and associated IT systems,
digitization of its pathology department, and enhancement of the
hospital’s emergency medicine capabilities.
Rather than treating each of these improvement areas as a
separate exercise, Philips and Marienhospital Stuttgart will
integrate them into connected patient care and optimized efficiency
solutions. This will involve analysis of the hospital’s current
treatment structures and pathways to enhance the overall quality of
the hospital’s structures, processes and results, while also
identifying potential cost savings. By jointly developing
needs-based technology solutions, Marienhospital Stuttgart will be
able to better plan its costs and ensure investment security in all
areas.
“Due to the long-term nature of our partnership with Philips,
our hospital will not only actively participate in future
technological advances in healthcare, but also become a leader,”
said Markus Mord, Managing Director of Marienhospital Stuttgart.
“It will enable us to offer our patients diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures that consistently meet the latest standards. We live
medicine and always focus on the well-being of our patients.”
“As a solution provider, we specialize in partnering with our
customers to provide integrated care concepts that enhance
treatment pathways for their patients,” said Peter Vullinghs,
Managing Director Philips DACH. “With new, highly innovative
approaches, we will help to enhance the quality of medical care for
the benefit of the patient across the board. We look forward to
many years of mutual cooperation with Marienhospital
Stuttgart."
Reliable diagnosis through digital pathologyA core
element of the collaboration is redesign of the hospital’s
pathology department workflow, replacing conventional microscopes
and glass slides with Philips’ high-performance digital pathology
slide scanners and computer workstations. This will allow slide
images to be managed, displayed, analyzed and discussed with
clinical colleagues – for example, during tumor boards for the
diagnosis and treatment of cancers. The ability to share slide
images will also enable virtual consultations with experts from
other hospitals. Competence networks like this combine the
experience of doctors working in the clinic with the knowledge of
their research colleagues, speeding up right-first-time diagnosis
and the initiation of therapy.
Radiology for current and future needsReflecting the
holistic nature of the partnership model, Philips will also help to
analyze and redefine Marienhospital Stuttgart’s radiology
procedures, processes and IT systems, as well as coordinating
equipment renewal and expansion. Under the terms of the agreement,
Philips will be responsible for the procurement, installation,
maintenance (including updates and upgrades) and servicing of all
large radiology equipment, with an obligation to ensure the
availability of equipment in line with the strategic orientation of
the hospital.
Emergency medicine for enhanced patient and staff
experiencesAs the first point of contact for patients with
acute health problems, Marienhospital Stuttgart’s Clinic for
Emergency Medicine plays a central role in its care concept. A
working group from Philips and the hospital has already examined
the clinic’s current status and development potential against the
background of a holistic care approach, including assessment of
patient safety, processes, procedures, technical equipment and
staff working conditions. The knowledge gained from this will be
incorporated into the clinic’s future structural planning and
implementation.
For further information, please contact:
Mark GrovesPhilips Group Press OfficeTel: +31 631 639 916 Email:
mark.groves@philips.com Twitter: mark_groves
Annette HalstrickPR Manager Philips DACHTel: +49 152 2280
0529Email: annette.halstrick@philips.com
About Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA)
is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people's health and well-being, 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 generated 2019 sales of EUR 19.5 billion and
employs approximately 81,000 employees with sales and services in
more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Marienhospital StuttgartThe Marienhospital
Stuttgart was founded in 1890. It is still owned by the Sisters of
Mercy of Saint Vincent de Paul in Untermarchtal. From a small
hospital with 15 nuns and 90 beds, it has developed into a large
hospital and today has 761 beds and well over 2,000 employees.
Marienhospital Stuttgart regularly receives recognition from
independent institutions such as health insurance companies,
magazines and associations; among other things as one of the best
hospitals and one of the best employers in Germany.
From the beginning, two characteristics have been one of the
cornerstones of the hospital: human attention to the patient and
medicine that was technically always up-to-date or ahead of its
time. As early as 1908, the hospital was one of the first hospitals
to acquire an X-ray machine and in the 130 years of its existence
it has always been one of the most technically advanced hospitals
in Germany. More about Marienhospital Stuttgart:
https://www.marienhospital-stuttgart.de
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