South Carolina’s health provider Prisma Health is using software from Dutch firm Philips for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping drive interoperability and data analytics.

Prisma Health is South Carolina’s largest non-profit healthcare system. Philips has entered a multi-year agreement to help the health system achieve enterprise interoperability, standardise patient monitoring and drive innovation in enterprise imaging to enhance patient care and improve clinical performance. Prisma Health wants to deliver on its quadruple aim to improve patient and staff satisfaction, lower costs, and improve outcomes for all South Carolinians.

Prisma Health was formed in 2017 when Greenville Health System and Palmetto Health, two of South Carolina’s healthcare systems, came together as one organisation. Today, Prisma Health has nearly 3000 licensed beds and 18 acute care and specialty hospitals, as well as 270 physician practices servicing 21 counties. It treats more than a million patients across its networks each year, including 368,000 virtual care visits and just under half a million emergency department visits.

“When our two regional healthcare organisations merged, an enterprise-wide technology strategy became critical to standardise best practices across the whole system, creating new bridges between hospital and home care and continuing to drive innovation,” said Rich Rogers, senior vice president at Prisma Health. “At Prisma Health, we wanted to engage a partner to help us address data integration and unlock the power of patient data so that we are able to provide our patients with the best care anywhere in our service areas. We want to put the right tools into the hands of our clinicians to allow them to better share information, collaborate and help transform care for the communities we serve.”

With the Philips HealthSuite secure cloud platform at its foundation, Philips says it is committed to enterprise interoperability. Its portfolio includes real-time patient monitoring, therapeutic devices, telehealth, image management and informatics including radiology and cardiology PACS, visualisation, vendor neutral archive (VNA) and Philips Vue Motion enterprise viewer and interoperability products, including the Capsule medical device information platform.

Prisma Health will not only have access to these technologies, it will also be the largest installation of the Philips Performance Bridge enterprise analytics platform in North America. Performance Bridge gives healthcare professionals access to near real-time data on departmental performance through an easy-to-use interactive dashboard. Vendor agnostic, it unifies information across different imaging modalities and informatics to optimise organisational efficiency, drive adherence to standards of care and facilitate additional revenue streams. Prisma Health plans to use Performance Bridge to drive innovation and monitor its healthcare delivery quality.

“At Philips, we made a deliberate decision to create an end-to-end enterprise strategy that will help our customers overcome interoperability barriers and enable data sharing,” said Vitor Rocha, chief market leader for Philips in North America. “Health systems shouldn’t have to worry about integrating technology, which is why we have developed vendor-agnostic solutions based on standards and frameworks that bring together data from applications, systems and devices. This allows our partners to focus on what is most important to them and their patients – continuously improving the patient journey and outcomes.”