Philips has integrated its medical device data and patient information platforms, providing a comprehensive patient overview for healthcare providers using Philips medical equipment. The integration is part of Philips goal to create an open patient monitoring ecosystem to bring together disparate medical devices and systems on a single interface.

The integration provides interoperability between the Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) and Philips Patient Information Center iX (PIC iX), and includes streaming, vendor-neutral data to support care delivery and collaboration.

Interoperability between MDIP and PIC iX gives clinicians a new clinical perspective that enables the capture of streaming data flowing freely from a variety of medical device manufacturers on an open, scalable, secure platform.

By disseminating this information through the Patient Information Center, clinicians have a single source, comprehensive overview of a patient’s condition that helps empower caregivers to make treatment recommendations confidently from anywhere throughout the hospital’s digital environment.

Data from medical device vendors has historically been siloed, leaving clinicians with the task of referencing multiple sources to gain a complete clinical view of the patient. Inefficiencies caused by this disjointed process affect clinicians’ ability to deliver timely diagnoses and treatments to patients.

Philips is aiming to address technical obstacles associated with interoperability, such as device-specific connectivity protocols and security challenges across the organisation, to help caregivers view, document, report, and analyse data before making care-related decisions.

Pulling data from a variety of different non-Philips devices, such as ventilators, infusion pumps, and third-party vital signs monitors, Philips presents and distributes the information in a single, standardised interface. Clinicians are then presented with a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health based on available medical device data. Access to this level of detailed information may minimise the time a clinician spends prioritising data from multiple sources. With the goal of creating efficiencies associated with determining diagnoses and treatment decisions, this new interoperability may allow caregivers to spend more time providing direct patient care.

“Every day, clinicians make countless care decisions based on information from divided medical devices and systems. It’s time we start caring for the carers by making data more accessible,” said Christoph Pedain, General Manager, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips. “By ever-improving availability and accessibility of patient information, clinicians and patients benefit through enhanced workflows, insights, improved care delivery and safety measures that may lead to better health outcomes and the better use of staff and infrastructure.”

“In a healthcare landscape burdened by disparate data, there exists a need to usher in the next wave of clinical innovation. But one health technology company cannot do this alone,” said Lynne A. Dunbrack, Group Vice President at International Data Corporation, a premier global provider of market intelligence.  “The only way that hospitals can achieve the next level of efficiency and quality of care is by sharing patient data across systems, vendors, and devices. With this new offering, Philips is in a unique position to help drive new vendor-to-vendor interoperability standards to better support our care providers and the patients they serve,” said Lynne Dunbrack, Group Vice President at International Data Corporation.