Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced new collaborations with Blue Spark Technologies, Caretaker Medical, Cuviva, LifeSignals, Respiree and smartQare, further expanding its open monitoring ecosystem. The collaborations help health systems improve continuity and coordination of care by integrating wearable and out-of-hospital technologies into the Philips ecosystem, supporting connected patient monitoring from hospital to home.
Driving the shift from episodic to longitudinal care
As healthcare systems expand higher-acuity services beyond traditional hospital settings, maintaining visibility into patient status across the care continuum becomes increasingly important.
Philips is helping lead this shift through an interoperable monitoring ecosystem that gives health systems greater flexibility to deploy and scale monitoring programs using the technologies that best fit their clinical and operational needs. By connecting patient data across care settings, Philips is transforming data into actionable care intelligence, supporting more efficient care coordination throughout the patient’s journey.
“Monitoring is no longer just about what happens at the bedside. Healthcare organizations need a more connected approach that helps clinicians maintain visibility into patient status across care settings,” said Sangdo Kim, Category Leader, NextGen Acute and Transitional Care Monitoring, Philips. “By building an open, enterprise-wide ecosystem that connects technologies, data and workflows, we can help deliver continuous patient insight, support smoother transitions in care, and create a more coordinated experience for clinicians and patients.”
Building a connected monitoring ecosystem to support transitional care
The partnerships expand the range of continuous patient measurements that can be integrated into Philips ecosystem, such as the Patient Information Center (PIC) iX. The partnerships include the following products*:
- Blue Spark Technologies – TempTraq wearable disposable patch supporting continuous core body temperature monitoring, clinically proven [1] to detect fevers earlier to enable improved patient visibility and early intervention, both inpatient and outpatient.
- Caretaker Medical – VitalStream wearable solution supporting continuous non-invasive blood pressure and advanced hemodynamic monitoring to help enhance inpatient surveillance and clinical decision-making.
- Cuviva – a core Hospital at Home platform technology partner, delivering a secure, advanced and fully integrated IT platform that enables structured, scalable hospital-at-home care through digital monitoring, real-time communication, and smooth integration with the Philips clinical workflows as well as hospitals’ digital infrastructure.
- LifeSignals – UbiqVue Multiparameter Biosensor, a single-use, wireless, wearable, chest-based device supporting continuous, near real-time monitoring of 2-channel ECG, SpO₂, pulse rate, respiration rate, body temperature, posture and motion. Coupled with centralized software, it enables alert-driven, scalable, active patient monitoring across hospital and out-of-hospital settings.
- Respiree – 1Bio(TM) platform + 1Bio(TM)AI + RS001 wearable biosensor technology enabling continuous cardio-respiratory monitoring, including patented direct respiratory rate and other lung physiological markers, pulse, SpO2, posture, and activity, helping support earlier identification of patient deterioration across care settings.
- smartQare – viQtor & Healthdot wearable biosensor technologies supporting continuous monitoring of pulse, respiration, SpO2, skin temperature, and activity to help clinicians maintain visibility into patient status across care transitions.
Together, these capabilities complement Philips’ broader connected care portfolio which includes solutions designed to support monitoring beyond discharge. Philips Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCOT)* [2] enables clinicians to remotely monitor appropriate cardiac patients for up to 30 days following an inpatient or ED evaluation, supporting smoother transitions into the appropriate care pathway.
By combining enterprise monitoring capabilities with an open network of innovation partners, Philips is helping shape the future of continuous patient monitoring across the care continuum.