Reducing procedure time in image-guided therapy with Philips Azurion
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Customer St. Antonius Hospital, The Netherlands
Challenge Improve operational and clinical efficiency while maintaining high quality care and staff satisfaction
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Faced with increasingly complex procedures and unpredictable demand, St. Antonius Hospital in the Netherlands looked for ways to improve clinical and operational efficiency in its interventional vascular labs.
The hospital was among the first in the world to install Philips Azurion, the next-generation image guided-therapy platform. An independently verified study shows that St. Antonius Hospital has achieved significant improvements in workflow with the new interventional lab. The hospital is now able to treat 1 more patient per day, bringing the current average to 6 to 8 patients per day - and allowing them to help hundreds more patients each year.
"With Philips Azurion, we now have the ability to treat one more patient a day, with no compromise to patient safety or quality of care."
Marco van Strijen MD – Interventional Radiologist at St. Antonius Hospital
The challenge
Like many hospitals around the world, St. Antonius Hospital faces an unpredictable demand for increasingly complex cardiovascular procedures, which puts a pressure on patient waiting times. This spurred the need for increased operational and clinical efficiency in its interventional labs. In 2015, when one of their existing labs was in need of replacement, the hospital went looking for a solution that would support their long-term interventional strategy. The goal was to speed up workflows and maintain an excellent quality of care, while driving staff and patient satisfaction at the same time.
The solution
St. Antonius Hospital turned to Philips as a partner that could help them reimagine the interventional lab. The hospital was among the first in the world to install Philips Azurion, the next-generation platform for image-guided therapy. Developed in close collaboration with clinicians, the platform supports a broad range of interventional procedures.
"As the use of image-guided therapies continues to rise, new systems need to be easy and intuitive to use so clinicians can quickly and efficiently move through procedures."
Marco van Strijen MD – Interventional Radiologist at St. Antonius Hospital
“As the use of image-guided therapies continues to rise, new systems need to be easy and intuitive to use so clinicians can quickly and efficiently move through procedures,” says Marco van Strijen, MD, Interventional Radiologist at St. Antonius Hospital. “With Azurion, we were able to change our workflow in such a way that we now can treat more patients in a single day, with no compromise to patient safety or quality of care.” St. Antonius Hospital and Philips also worked together to identify opportunities for even more efficient use of the lab, based on an analysis of the facility layout and procedural data.
* Study results were verified by NAMSA, an independent third-party expert on study design and analytics.
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