Philips Joins the Mackenzie Innovation Institute (Mi2) Mission to Develop Disruptive Innovations & Solutions That Improve Pat...
February 22 2017 - 7:30AM
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Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it is
partnering with the Mackenzie Innovation Institute (Mi2) in Canada
on opportunities to develop, test and evaluate technological
solutions and innovations intended to improve patient care across
the healthcare system.
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“Truly innovative patient centred solutions require
collaboration between technology leaders like Philips and
healthcare innovators,” said Altaf Stationwala, President and CEO,
Mackenzie Health. “By working together, we can develop
technological capabilities to improve workflows and productivity
for our team, while creating solutions to continually improve care
for patients.”
Working together with healthcare, industry and academia, Mi2, a
registered Canadian charitable organization, aims to enhance
healthcare research, education and training to help develop and
promote new and disruptive innovations for the healthcare industry
and create sustainable value-added improvements in patient
experience, quality and outcomes. Mi2 has developed an extensive
knowledge base on the implementation and evaluation of disruptive
innovations. Using this knowledge and experience, Mi2 aims to be an
industry leader and go-to source for healthcare solutions.
As a Mi2 partner, Philips will bring healthcare technology
expertise, insights and global best practices to help understand
and address challenges faced by the Canadian health system. The
partnership will enable Mi2 to develop leadership resources for the
creation of innovative and disruptive new technologies and
collaboration on Mi2 education and training development, workshops,
publications, research projects and clinical studies. The
partnership between Philips Canada and Mi2 aims to explore
innovative projects such as process redesign and practice changes
that could improve patient care and may be tested and trialed at
Mackenzie Health’s Innovation Unit and beyond. The Mackenzie Health
Innovation Unit is an acute care medical unit at Mackenzie Richmond
Hill Hospital and acts as a living laboratory for innovations to be
developed, evaluated and adopted by other patient care units at
Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, as well as the future Mackenzie
Vaughan Hospital, and potentially at the health system level.
“We want to deliver on our vision of improving the lives of 3
billion people by 2025, and that includes a shared commitment to
rethinking how Canadian healthcare is delivered,” said Iain Burns,
President and CEO, Philips Canada. "Working shoulder to shoulder
with those at the front lines of Canadian healthcare like Mackenzie
Health and other partners in Mi2 enables the cross-pollination of
ideas that will allow us to bring education and healthcare into our
communities and new rigor to healthcare technology.”
Philips Canada’s partnership with Mi2 is the latest in Philips
efforts to drive healthcare transformation, including working with
leading academic institutions and healthcare providers across the
market. In addition, Philips is helping to establish best practices
in healthcare management as part of various large-scale vendor
partnerships and innovative managed equipment services agreements
with innovative healthcare providers like Mackenzie Health.
In November 2015, Mackenzie Health and Philips, both recognized
for their leadership in healthcare innovation, announced the
largest MES deal in Canada. Working together to advance Mackenzie
Health’s ‘smart hospital’ vision, the multi-year, large-scale
managed equipment services agreement is structured to support
Mackenzie Health’s transformation into a two-hospital regional
provider of best-in-class care through medical technology
optimization and a concerted focus on the patient experience. The
new 342-bed ‘smart’ hospital in Vaughan will be the first new
hospital to be built in southwest York Region in more than 50
years. Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will embrace connected health
technologies or the ‘Internet of Healthcare Things’ to offer a
state-of-the-art emergency department, modern surgical services and
operating rooms, access to acute inpatient and intensive care beds,
technologically-advanced medical imaging, specialized ambulatory
clinics and a flexible design, enabling it to evolve as new
thinking and best practices emerge.
About Royal PhilipsRoyal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA)
is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health
continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis,
treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and
deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated
solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a
leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient
monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health
and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2016
sales of EUR 17.4 billion and employs approximately 71,000
employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News
about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Mackenzie Innovation InstituteMackenzie Innovation
Institute (Mi2) is a bridge between industry and healthcare for the
implementation and evaluation of innovative and disruptive
technologies, process redesign, and practice changes in real-time
healthcare environments in order to create sustainable value-added
improvements in patient experience, quality and outcomes. The
creation of Mi2 enables Mackenzie Health to transform healthcare
delivery and build on its applied innovation vision and
infrastructure to create and propagate sustainable change within
our organization, and to spread it more broadly at the healthcare
system level. Through partnerships with industry and academia, Mi2
established an evaluative focus on implementation, usability,
adoption and scalability of disruptive innovations, predominately
in healthcare technology, but also in evidence-based practice
changes and alternative service delivery and procurement models.
The Mackenzie Innovation Institute is the vanguard of Mackenzie
Health’s applied innovation vision to ensure sustainability and
long-term success.
About Mackenzie HealthMackenzie Health’s vision is to
create a world-class health experience. This means delivering
quality, compassionate and timely patient-centered care. It means
that everything we do is focused on our patients and community. As
a regional healthcare provider, serving a population of more than
half a million people across Southwest York Region and beyond the
organization is nationally recognized for its commitment to safety
and patient care, and is a healthcare leader with a variety of
academic partners. Mackenzie Health includes the existing Mackenzie
Richmond Hill Hospital, the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, for
which the groundbreaking was held in the fall of 2016, and a
network of community-based services in Richmond Hill, Vaughan and
surrounding communities.
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Philips CanadaSantina Giuliano,
905-201-4196santina.giuliano@philips.comorMackenzie HealthStefanie
Kreibe, 905-883-1212 ext.
7484Stefanie.kreibe@mackenziehealth.ca
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