The demand for virtual care surged under Covid-19 – not just in the ICU with its limited number of beds but across the entire acute care continuum. The need to ensure specialist resources could be accessed regardless of physical presence meant telehealth became a necessity and not just a nice-to-have.
Healthcare authorities, concerned about specialist staff shortages, burnout, and the risk that doctors and nurses would be infected by the virus themselves, quickly adopted telehealth to ensure continuous and vital care delivery
Leading providers partnered with Philips, even before the pandemic, using Philips connected care solutions to help improve outcomes, improve the staff and patient experience and lower costs.
Examples include:
Philips eICU
Philips eICU enables a team of intensivists and critical care nurses to remotely monitor patients in the ICU regardless of patient location, supported by high- definition cameras, predictive analytics, data visualization and advanced reporting capabilities to support their frontline colleagues. Over the past decade and a half, more than 4.25 million patient stays have been monitored by Philips eICU program with hospitals seeing a reduction in mortality and length of stay after eiCU deployment.
• For more information, visit: www.philips.ae/healthcare/resources/landing/teleicu
Philips Digital pathology
Cancer patient data is integrated for both oncologists, radiologists and pathologists, allowing them to collaborate efficiently, even when working remotely. The Philips platform supports streamlined preparation, enhances review and analysis, and empowers the cancer care team to reach clinical treatment decisions based on disease-specific dashboards, diagnostic images, and structured reports. Remote reviewing of pathological cases is essential to prevent delay in critical patient diagnosis and care, particularly during COVID-19. Pre-COVID-19, pathology labs that digitized their workflows across different sites reported improved collaboration and an average productivity gain of 21%.
• For more information, visit: www.philips.ae/healthcare/solutions/pathology
Philips tele-ultrasound
The Lumify with reacts is the world’s first truly integrated teleultrasound solution. Lumify is app-based meaning high- quality portable ultrasound is available almost anywhere. In addition, the Reacts collaborative platform enables users to share the live ultrasound stream from a Lumify device with a remote colleague on a mobile device, tablet or computer, who can provide real time feedback without the need for physical proximity during scans. The live communications support better, more meaningful collaborations, especially at this time of the global pandemic when it is most needed.
• For more information, visit: www.philips.ae/healthcare/sites/lumify
