SINGAPORE, Nov. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) a diversified health and well-being company announced today that the company has been awarded three industry awards in South East Asia, recognizing Philips' relentless efforts in driving outstanding performance, continued strength and innovation in healthcare business.
The three awards received by Philips are Asia Pacific Patient Monitoring Company of the Year, Indonesia Telehealth Company of the Year and Asia Pacific Telehealth Company of the Year, all awarded by the Frost & Sullivan's industry analyst team.
Asia Pacific Patient Monitoring Company of the Year Award
"Philips Healthcare is a leader in the Asia Pacific Patient Monitoring market driven primarily by its commitment to solution innovation, customer centricity and improving patient outcomes. Patient monitoring solutions are tailored for all care areas. Through Clinical and Technical expert teams, Philips meets specific hospital needs and customer expectations. Philips focuses on solutions that support clinical decisions and improve workflow to help clinicians enhance patient care, manage resources and control costs. The company's leading position is underpinned by their dedication to continuously expand its solution portfolio, integrate with hospital IT systems, environmental considerations and provide comprehensive services. As a result, Philips Healthcare is a brand recognised in the patient monitoring market for its innovation, quality, reliability and customer care services," said Lee Chee Lip, Research Analyst, Best Practices Asia Pacific, Frost & Sullivan.
The Philips patient monitoring portfolio provides actionable, care-specific information and is an end to end enterprise monitoring and patient care solutions portfolio, focusing on the needs of a patient and improvement of caregiver workflows. Through the solutions, caregivers have advanced clinical decision support applications and advanced informatics solutions that provide improved patient care while focusing in major caregiver challenges such as the management of alarms in their high acuity sectors.
"The flexibility offered with Philips patient monitoring solutions and customer service support programs increases our customer's cost-effectiveness and provides viable and sustainable device support throughout the solutions lifetime. This helps to provide meaningful information to clinicians, administrators, and patients," said Bidur Dhaul, Business Head of Philips ASEAN Pacific Patient Care and Monitoring Systems. "We are honored to receive this award from Frost & Sullivan for recognizing the success of our efforts in the Patient monitoring solutions space."
Indonesia Telehealth Company of the Year Award & Asia Pacific Telehealth Company of the Year Award
Philip's Mobile Obstetrics Monitoring (MOM) was piloted in Indonesia with the Indonesian Reproduction Science Institute (IRSI) at Bundamedik hospital group, providing expectant mothers with enhanced care to help address maternal mortality -- a top priority for Indonesia. The one year pilot that awarded Philips with Indonesia Tele-health Company of the Year Award took place with 656 pregnant women and showcased how this solution helps to unite information and action to identify and manage high-risk pregnancies by bringing care to where it's urgently needed -- primary health centers and patient homes. MOM empowers community caregivers to capture vital information during home visits, enabling antenatal risk stratification, diagnostic assistance, and progress assessment through mobile applications.
Philips was also presented Asia Pacific Telehealth Company of the Year Award for launching the first tele-health program for heart failure patients in Singapore. The dedicated pilot study integrates three key elements, tele-monitoring, tele-education, and tele-care support via the EH Alliance's Health Management Unit (HMU) nurse tele-carers in Changi General Hospital (CGH). These help engage heart failure patients to better take care of their health, helping to reduce the risk of hospitalization and premature death.
These are examples of how Philips achieves effective levels of healthcare engagement with targeted and well-managed introduction of the latest healthcare technology solutions. They also acknowledge the company's ongoing commitment and relentless effort to deliver meaningful innovations in order to improve individuals' lives throughout the region -- bridging the hospital to home, better connecting the healthcare system and empowering patients to better manage their conditions.
For further information, please contact:
Esmond Yan
FleishmanHillard Singapore
+65-6424-8301
Esmond.yan@fleishman.com
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people's lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2014 sales of EUR 21.4 billion and employs approximately 106,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
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