Radboud University Medical Center and Philips sign 10-year patient monitoring partnership and agreement to keep software state-of-the-art

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Radboud University Medical Center have signed a hospital-wide, long-term strategic partnership that delivers the latest patient monitoring applications. All Radboudumc departments will have access to Philips' patient monitoring portfolio. In addition, the two parties have signed a service agreement, to continuously deliver clinical and technical services to maintain the monitors and underlying IT platform. New software developments for bedside or central station monitors are frequent, as are necessary clinical software and security updates. With this agreement, Radboudumc will always have access to the latest updates, software, and security for their patient monitoring systems.

The goal of Radboudumc is to create a reliable and scalable patient monitoring ecosystem that offers flexibility in the future. This collaboration could help us to reduce alarms and allow data to be accessed and clinical decisions to be made from anywhere, helping to optimize patient monitoring and clinical outcomes. The ecosystem and platform that Philips offers create new possibilities and opportunities.

Software supports patient monitoring

While patients are continuously monitored in operating rooms, Intensive Care Units and other departments with bedside patient monitors, monitoring also can happen during patient transit. Some interchangeable monitors can be used during patient transport to ensure no patient data is lost. The data is stored in the software and IT systems behind the monitors, which support caregivers in the interpretation of all this data, using algorithms, for example, to provide the best possible insight into the patient's health status and signal a deterioration in the patient.