The Journal of mHealth Vol 3 Issue 1 (Feb/Mar 2016) | Page 15

Industry News

Philips Partners with Validic to
Integrate Personal Health Data
Philips and Validic have announced a
collaboration that will enable the integration of consumer-generated health data
into Philips cloud-based HealthSuite digital platform to power connected health
solutions and services.
The collaboration with Validic will
offer Philips opportunities to expand
the breadth and depth of its connected
health solutions such as its Personal
Health Programs, Lifeline medical alert
services and eCareCoordinator and
eCareCompanion eHealth applications
with third-party device data. These connected health solutions and services have
been designed to facilitate coordinated
care across the health continuum from
healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, treatment and home care. They have
been built on Philips’ HealthSuite digital
platform, an open cloud-based platform
of services, capabilities and tools that
allows for the creation of the next generation of connected health and wellness
innovations.
Validic has pioneered a technology
platform for connectivity and access
to digital health data from clinical and
remote-monitoring devices, sensors, fitness equipment, wearables and patient
wellness applications. The company’s
platform reaches approximately 223 million people in 47 countries.
“Being able to deliver the best care

requires that healthcare providers have
a comprehensive view of each patient’s
health condition,” said Jeroen Tas, CEO,
Connected Care and Health Informatics, Philips. “Increasingly, healthcare is
moving beyond the walls of the hospital,
enabled by connected devices to monitor both health and care. We can now
take a next step by securely combining
the data generated by someone’s glucose
meter and fitness tracker with their clinical data, so that caregivers can discover
relevant and actionable insights for new
models of personalised health management of their patients. Our collaboration
with Validic helps to accelerate this step.”
The Philips HealthSuite digital platform
enables connected health services by
utilising smart devices and mobile apps
to help people make more confident
health and lifestyle-related decisions.
Through its integration capabilities with
electronic medical records and other clinical data sources it also supports health
systems in the delivery of care coordination solutions. Patients and their care
providers are given actionable and longitudinal insight through the combination
of clinical and personal health data. The
collaboration with Validic will further
augment the integration of consumergenerated personal health data from
multivendor fitness wearables, remote
monitoring devices and health apps, as
well as medical devices like blood pressure cuffs, health patches and glucose

meters, into existing and new connected
health services.
“With a strong presence in both professional healthcare and consumer health
spaces, Philips understands the global
impact of people better managing and
engaging with their health. They also recognise the industry need for making this
remotely collected health data actionable
for care providers,” said Ryan Beckland,
CEO and co-founder of Validic. “Philips
and Validic share a similar vision on connected health and recognise the importance of leveraging digital health data
collected outside of the clinical setting to
improve the quality of care and patient
outcomes.”
The Philips HealthSuite digital platform
supports enterprise application development with services specialised for the
secure collection of health, wellness
and clinical data, allowing for aggregation, analysis and actionable insights. As
new digital health technologies rapidly
become available, Philips’ customers –
both patients and clinicians – will be able
to accelerate the adoption of connected
health services by utilising smart devices
and mobile apps to make more confident health and lifestyle-related decisions. Philips also offers its HealthSuite
digital platform as a scalable and secure
Platform-as-a-Service for custom connected health application development
and deployment. n

Medelinked App Released on
Salesforce AppExchange
Medelinked, an online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, have released a version of
the Medelinked App on the Salesforce AppExchange.
Medelinked Health Cloud and API already power a wide variety
of mHealth applications, allowing developers to create a series
of new applications that deliver real health benefits to the end
user and healthcare professionals.

As well as incorporating Medelinked’s core functions Salesforce
developers can now, for instance, create applications for healthcare
provider organisations that allow for Medelinked customer health
timelines to be viewed alongside all their details in Salesforce.
Using Medelinked, individuals are able to create a health profile
online that is secure and connect and share their health record
with their network of trusted health partners and providers

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