Royal Philips awarded for commitment to health informatics
Health technology company Royal Philips has announced that it has won the 2018 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation Partner Award, which recognises the company's high level of commitment and accountability towards its health informatics customers.
“Our healthcare informatics solutions play a vital role in supporting care providers to diagnose, treat and monitor their patients,” said Carla Kriwet, Chief Business Leader for Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips. “Healthcare is always on. As an accountable business partner, we know our value is not just in providing technology, but to be there alongside our customers to provide continuous support to ensure consistent, seamless care. The CHIME Foundation is one of the most highly respected global organisations serving CIOs and CIMOs and we are honoured to receive such positive feedback from our customers.”
Philips said that health systems face a number of challenges when it comes to running their organisations – such as natural disasters damaging critical technology and interrupting services, cybersecurity, and ensuring consistent connectivity to enable the transfer of patient monitoring data – and that hospitals need a partner who can customise technology to quickly identify and fix the problems they face.