Royal Philips will feature its connected health technology solutions, from prevention and healthy living, to diagnosis and treatment and care at home at Arab Health, the region’s largest healthcare expo in Dubai, UAE.

The Arab Health Exhibition & Congress is opening today (January 30) and will conclude on February 2 at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
 
Philips Visitors to the Philips Booth will also experience advanced solutions in acute and chronic care management of cardiology.  From intravascular imaging, ultrasound, healthcare IT and advanced software applications, to physiology image guided interventional technologies and personal health solutions for better heart health; Philips is providing a customized integrated approach to deliver enhanced outcomes for clinicians and patients alike.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death around the world. Over 7 million people annually die of coronary heart disease alone. One in every five in the UAE loses their lives due to cardiovascular diseases. As a leading company, that combines clinical and personal health solutions across the health continuum, Philips offers unique integrated solutions to help healthcare professionals treat cardiovascular disease by encouraging healthy living and prevention, first-time-right diagnosis, more effective treatment, and enabling recovery and monitoring that is more effective at home.

Arjen Radder, Philips CEO Middle East and Turkey said, “At Philips we believe every heart is unique and every patient deserves an individual approach to health. Today, digital technologies are empowering people to take greater control of their health and lead healthier lives. Data and connected solutions help deliver the relevant information at the right time, enabling clinicians to make more efficient and effective clinical decisions and deliver personalized care to each of their patients.”

Connected care solutions

Philips fully integrated cardiology solutions leverage deep clinical insights to help speed the path to treatment through early interventions, improved productivity and enhanced patient outcomes. Philips data-driven intelligent solutions offer actionable insights to help drive timely intervention, while advanced technology enables minimally invasive, more effective, personalized treatments so patients can go home earlier.

Prevention and Healthy Living

According to the  Future Health Index, an international report  commissioned by Philips, of the more than 25,000 patients surveyed, one-third (35 per cent) have a cardiology related medical issue, with high blood pressure being the most common condition, present in 23 per cent of survey respondents. The results of Future Health Index reinforce the need to move from reactive to proactive and preventative care management, especially within cardiology. To that end, Philips will highlight its personal health programs at the Arab Health Conference 2017.

Philips’ Personal Health Programs represent a new era in connected care by empowering consumers to improve their health through better habits, which enables them to measure, monitor, and manage all their vitals. To further promote adopting a healthy lifestyle, Philips will also display the revolutionary Philips Sonicare toothbrush; which delivers the best in class oral healthcare, and in turn is a key pillar in the prevention of heart related diseases. The WHO announced that death from heart disease is twice the average level in patients with severed periodontal disease.

Diagnosis and Treatment

At this year’s Arab Health, Philips will demonstrate its advanced solutions delivering diagnostic confidence and enhanced decision-support through every step of the cardiology patient journey, highlighting the following:

•    The Minicare system, a handheld testing platform that is able to show blood test results on the reader display 10 times faster than conventional methods, this helps speed cardiovascular disease diagnosis.

•    HeartModelAI –  premier Anatomical Intelligence Ultrasound (AIUS) application - part of a suite of tools and technologies available on Philips’ EPIQ Ultrasound system that brings advanced automated quantification, 3D views, robust reproducibility and significant time-savings to echocardiography.

•    InnoSight is a Philips diagnostic, compact ultrasound system that will be on display for the first time at Arab Health. InnoSight is designed to address customer’s needs for an affordable, portable ultrasound system that combines simplicity with clinical versatility.

•    IntelliSpace Cardiovascular – next generation image and information integrated software solution. Web-based echo reporting provides clinicians with improved remote access and convenience and vendor agnostic expanded WebAPI enables easier integration for comprehensive patient data and analytics
 
•    Dynamic Coronary Roadmap: is a Philips exclusive technology that allows physicians to navigate in coronary arteries efficiently and with confidence by creating a dynamic, motion-compensated, real-time view of the coronary arteries. This new technology is seamlessly integrated into standard care workflow and is used in daily clinical practice. Philips is a global leader in Image Guided Therapy and our image guided solutions helps physician Decide, Guide and Confirm the right therapy for each patient.

Arjen Radder continues: ‘Healthcare is not just limited to a clinical setting inside the hospital (between the 4 walls of the hospital). In fact, if you want to lower costs and improve outcomes, it is important to focus on the home. That is where health mostly happens’.

Home care

At the booth, Philips Telehealth solutions for chronic heart failure patients will be showcased; enabling the patients to take better control of their own health with personal devices and an educational program rooted in behavioural science, as well as by helping providers remotely monitor and coordinate care across settings through the eCareCompanion solution. The eCareCompanion is an easy-to-use telehealth solution that patients access on a secure tablet at home to measure their vital signs to share with their care team.

Philips will also present innovations that help improve the sleep therapy experience for people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA is commonly associated with cardiovascular diseases. The Dream Family offers innovative, comprehensive sleep therapy technology with sleek, patient-driven design, and personalized tools to keep your patients engaged and using therapy.

All the above solutions are connected through Philips HealthSuite, an open, secure, cloud-based platform that pulls together this vast amount of data produced by digital solutions, including third party devices, traditional medical data sources like electronic medical records, diagnostic and treatment information, and medical images and enables many of these solutions. – TradeArabia News Service