Medical University of South Carolina aims to bolster patient monitoring for one million people annually
The Medical University of South Carolina Health has embarked on an initiative to transform monitoring for more than one million patients a year.
To that end, MUSC inked an 8-year, $36 million partnership with Royal Philips, which will install, integrate, and manage patient monitoring systems as well as provide maintenance.
Philips will also provide MUSC, the clinical enterprise arm of Medical University of South Carolina, with continuous access to standardized, current-state patient monitoring technology, implementation, and asset management services.
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This approach is designed to standardize clinical practice and enable integration and interoperability with other clinical IT systems.
MUSC will have better collection and management of patient data across its four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites, in order to provide more informed, proactive diagnostic and treatment services, helping to reduce complications, adverse events, length of stay and readmissions.
“We want to give our staff and patients access to patient monitoring technologies to deliver on the highest quality, safest, and most reliable healthcare through the use of Phillips patient monitoring equipment across our entire enterprise,” MUSC CEO Patrick J. Cawley, MD, said in a statement.
Over the past year, Philips has signed similar long-term, strategic partnerships including Westchester Medical Center Health Network; Mackenzie Health and Marin General Hospital.
Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten said in a statement that such long-term contracts enable healthcare providers to move toward value-based models and improve the patient experience.
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