While there’s more data flowing into healthcare than ever before, to the point where the healthcare industry generates approximately 30% of the world’s data volume, that data is siloed, meaning providers still have to rely on disparate data sources, such as Electronic Medical Records clinical notes, and device alarms. It’s inefficient and leads to poorer patient outcomes.
To help solve this, and to streamline data from medical devices and other sources, Royal Philips and Mass General Brigham (MGB), announced a partnership on Thursday to develop and deploy data infrastructure to integrate and process live healthcare data from a wide range of sources in order to improve patient care.
The collaboration will combine Philips’s technologies, including Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform, Philips Clinical Insights Manager, and Philips Capsule Surveillance with MGB’s AI business unit, Mass General Brigham AI, to create an ecosystem that allows clinicians to capture, analyze, and react to data in real time.
The parntership will also result in the creation of new algorithms that can identify patient-cohort patterns and generate smart alerts, giving clinicians actionable insights.
To begin, the focus will be on patients undergoing continuous, real-time heart monitoring. By analyzing this data, the research aims to improve early detection of cardiac events.
“This exciting collaboration marks a key step forward in healthcare innovation, harnessing the full potential of AI and medical device data to advance patient safety, operational efficiency, clinician ergonomics, while opening new discovery possibilities,” said Dr. Tom McCoy, Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, in a statement.
“By mobilizing previously siloed medical device data into an integrated high speed, high resiliency, real time data fabric we will be able to deliver the transformative potential of software to the patients who need it most.”
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