Summary: Royal Philips and Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) announced a 10-year collaboration to enhance patient monitoring across BSMH’s 49 hospitals. The partnership aims to reduce the digital burden on staff, standardize patient monitoring, and provide vital insights through Philips’ scalable monitoring platform, ultimately improving healthcare quality and reducing costs.

Key Takeaways:

  • Strategic Collaboration: Philips and BSMH have entered a 10-year partnership to improve patient monitoring and healthcare quality across BSMH’s network.
  • Technological Innovation: The collaboration will implement Philips’ latest monitoring innovations, integrating patient data to provide crucial insights and reduce staff workload.
  • Community Impact: The partnership aims to enhance patient and staff experiences, support BSMH’s mission to improve community health, and enable reinvestment in healthcare innovation.

10-Year Patient Monitoring Collaboration

Royal Philips and Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems, announced a multi-year strategic collaboration for patient monitoring. Putting BSMH clinicians in control, the collaboration aims to reduce the digital burden on staff and give them more time to spend with patients.

Access to Latest Innovations

The partnership provides access to the latest Philips monitoring innovations, including a scalable patient monitoring platform that integrates patient data and provides vital insights. It will standardize patient monitoring for BSMH’s 49 hospitals, reducing costs through a predictable payment model and enabling further reinvestment in innovation.

Commitment to Improved Healthcare

“This collaboration is part of our commitment to drive improved healthcare quality while reducing costs and addressing healthcare issues facing entire communities,” said Jodi Pahl, chief nursing officer for workforce experience and nursing outcomes, Bon Secours Mercy Health. “This 10-year journey will bring innovations that will transform care delivery.”

BSMH provides patient care through its network of more than 1,200 care sites, 60,000 associates, and 49 hospitals serving communities in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as Ireland.

Implementation and Maintenance

“With implementation occurring over the next three years, followed by seven years of maintenance and updates, we’re positioned to be at the leading edge of technology,” said Pahl. “This uplifts our mission to improve the health and well-being of our communities and supports our commitments to innovation and stewardship.”

“This partnership is a testament to BSMH’s focus on strong clinical engagement and our combined commitment to improving the patient and staff experience,” said Julia Strandberg, chief business leader, connected care at Philips. “As BSMH’s clinical technology partner, we’re leaning in to understand their needs and apply innovative technologies that can improve patient outcomes. BSMH is committed to bringing quality care to more people by eliminating time-consuming data roadblocks for their staff.”