15 September 2016: Europe | R&D
Royal Philips aims to roll out a series of programs for chronic diseases that marry consumer-oriented device data with the electronic medical record. The idea is to give patients and healthcare providers access to all the relevant data and analysis to improve self-care and medical care.
This effort comes shockingly into focus when you consider that half the U.S. population has a chronic disease--and that's a dated figure that goes back to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate from 2012. Among the most common chronic conditions are heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesityand arthritis. More
Royal Philips aims to roll out a series of programs for chronic diseases that marry consumer-oriented device data with the electronic medical record. The idea is to give patients and healthcare providers access to all the relevant data and analysis to improve self-care and medical care.
This effort comes shockingly into focus when you consider that half the U.S. population has a chronic disease--and that's a dated figure that goes back to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate from 2012. Among the most common chronic conditions are heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesityand arthritis. More
