ST Engineering and Royal Philips have announced a strategic partnership to offer complementary digital health solutions for bedside support and capacity management.
The partnership, signed at ST Engineering’s annual InnoTech Conference, combines Philips’ global leadership in remote health technology with ST Engineering’s extensive digital tech capabilities. The joint objective is to help health systems bridge gaps in actionable data utilisation while leveraging real-time insights to optimise care access and patient flow, a key area that healthcare systems in the Asia-Pacific region are moving into to improve patient care impacted by workforce shortages and growing demand.
ST Engineering is a global technology, defence, and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. Royal Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being.
In Philips’ Future Health Index 2024 survey of 600 healthcare leaders in APAC, 93% in APAC and 84% in Singapore reported that they experienced data integration challenges in their organisation. Improved data accuracy, data security and privacy, and interoperability between platforms and healthcare settings were identified as ways to change how data is being handled to provide timely and high-quality care.
The key collaborative efforts between ST Engineering and Philips are as follows:
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ST Engineering’s AGIL Care next-generation operations command centre and Philips’ clinical command centre synergises insights from operational and clinical data on the respective systems. They effectively form a holistic command centre with full situational awareness of the entire patient journey via an interoperable remote service model. Leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics, hospital systems driving similar remote services can expect to reduce the length of stay by more than 20%.
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Philips’ application, which captures streaming clinical data from more than 1,000 bedside devices, is compatible with ST Engineering’s AI-driven AGIL Assistive IoT Platform. This platform consolidates IoT assets within the hospital into a single platform. It has the potential to bring together data on patient status, enabling healthcare providers to extend care delivery services beyond hospital operations.
“The lack of unified integration solutions are considerable barriers for hospitals seeking to improve productivity and operational efficiency, underscoring the need for digital health providers to collaborate and offer effective and interoperable digital health solutions,” said ST Engineering’s Tan Bin Ru. “Partnering with Philips amplifies our collective expertise to synergise insights from both clinical and non-clinical data at scale, empowering healthcare informatics leaders to effectively transform care delivery models and optimise patient care resources.”
“Healthcare leaders in APAC are looking to build a cohesive patient story by bringing data from different sources together in a meaningful way to enhance their ability to provide timely and high-quality care to patients,” said Philips Dan Ball. “We are excited to collaborate with ST Engineering to provide our complementary digital solutions to help healthcare providers stay ahead of these needs, intelligently connecting people, data, and technology to bring better care for more people in APAC.”
