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MARKHAM, Ontario -- (Business Wire)
Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it is partnering
with the Mackenzie
Innovation Institute (Mi2) in Canada on opportunities to
develop, test and evaluate technological solutions and innovations
intended to improve patient care across the healthcare system.
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“Truly innovative patient centred solutions require collaboration
between technology leaders like Philips and healthcare innovators,” said
Altaf Stationwala, President and CEO, Mackenzie
Health. “By working together, we can develop technological
capabilities to improve workflows and productivity for our team, while
creating solutions to continually improve care for patients.”
Working together with healthcare, industry and academia, Mi2,a registered Canadian charitable organization, aims to enhance
healthcare research, education and training to help develop and promote
new and disruptive innovations for the healthcare industry and create
sustainable value-added improvements in patient experience, quality and
outcomes. Mi2 has developed an extensive knowledge base on
the implementation and evaluation of disruptive innovations. Using this
knowledge and experience, Mi2 aims to be an industry leader
and go-to source for healthcare solutions.
As a Mi2 partner, Philips will bring healthcare technology
expertise, insights and global best practices to help understand and
address challenges faced by the Canadian health system. The partnership
will enable Mi2 to develop leadership resources for the
creation of innovative and disruptive new technologies and collaboration
on Mi2 education and training development, workshops,
publications, research projects and clinical studies. The partnership
between Philips Canada and Mi2 aims to explore innovative
projects such as process redesign and practice changes that could
improve patient care and may be tested and trialed at Mackenzie Health’s
Innovation Unit and beyond. The Mackenzie Health Innovation Unit is an
acute care medical unit at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and acts as
a living laboratory for innovations to be developed, evaluated and
adopted by other patient care units at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital,
as well as the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, and potentially at the
health system level.
“We want to deliver on our vision of improving the lives of 3 billion
people by 2025, and that includes a shared commitment to rethinking how
Canadian healthcare is delivered,” said Iain Burns, President and CEO,
Philips Canada. "Working shoulder to shoulder with those at the front
lines of Canadian healthcare like Mackenzie Health and other partners in
Mi2 enables the cross-pollination of ideas that will allow us
to bring education and healthcare into our communities and new rigor to
healthcare technology.”
Philips Canada’s partnership with Mi2 is the latest in
Philips efforts to drive healthcare transformation, including working
with leading academic institutions and healthcare providers across the
market. In addition, Philips is helping to establish best practices in
healthcare management as part of various large-scale vendor partnerships
and innovative managed equipment services agreements with innovative
healthcare providers like Mackenzie Health.
In November 2015, Mackenzie Health and Philips, both recognized for
their leadership in healthcare innovation, announced
the largest MES deal in Canada. Working together to advance
Mackenzie Health’s ‘smart hospital’ vision, the multi-year, large-scale
managed equipment services agreement is structured to support Mackenzie
Health’s transformation into a two-hospital regional provider of
best-in-class care through medical technology optimization and a
concerted focus on the patient experience. The new 342-bed ‘smart’
hospital in Vaughan will be the first new hospital to be built in
southwest York Region in more than 50 years. Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital
will embrace connected health technologies or the ‘Internet of
Healthcare Things’ to offer a state-of-the-art emergency department,
modern surgical services and operating rooms, access to acute inpatient
and intensive care beds, technologically-advanced medical imaging,
specialized ambulatory clinics and a flexible design, enabling it to
evolve as new thinking and best practices emerge.
About Royal Philips
Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology
company focused on improving people's health and enabling better
outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention,
to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced
technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated
solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in
diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health
informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips'
health technology portfolio generated 2016 sales of EUR 17.4 billion and
employs approximately 71,000 employees with sales and services in more
than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Mackenzie Innovation Institute
Mackenzie Innovation
Institute (Mi2) is a bridge between industry and healthcare
for the implementation and evaluation of innovative and disruptive
technologies, process redesign, and practice changes in real-time
healthcare environments in order to create sustainable value-added
improvements in patient experience, quality and outcomes. The creation
of Mi2 enables Mackenzie Health to transform healthcare
delivery and build on its applied innovation vision and infrastructure
to create and propagate sustainable change within our organization, and
to spread it more broadly at the healthcare system level. Through
partnerships with industry and academia, Mi2 established an
evaluative focus on implementation, usability, adoption and scalability
of disruptive innovations, predominately in healthcare technology, but
also in evidence-based practice changes and alternative service delivery
and procurement models. The Mackenzie Innovation Institute is the
vanguard of Mackenzie Health’s applied innovation vision to ensure
sustainability and long-term success.
About Mackenzie Health
Mackenzie Health’s vision is to
create a world-class health experience. This means delivering quality,
compassionate and timely patient-centered care. It means that everything
we do is focused on our patients and community. As a regional healthcare
provider, serving a population of more than half a million people across
Southwest York Region and beyond the organization is nationally
recognized for its commitment to safety and patient care, and is a
healthcare leader with a variety of academic partners. Mackenzie Health
includes the existing Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, the future
Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, for which the groundbreaking was held in the
fall of 2016, and a network of community-based services in Richmond
Hill, Vaughan and surrounding communities.
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Contacts:
Philips Canada
Santina Giuliano, 905-201-4196
santina.giuliano@philips.com
or
Mackenzie
Health
Stefanie Kreibe, 905-883-1212 ext. 7484
Stefanie.kreibe@mackenziehealth.ca
Source: Royal Philips
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