Philips leads large scale eHealth initiative to deliver coordinated care for tens of thousands of chronic disease patients across Europe
prnewswire | May 17, 2016
AMSTERDAM, May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and a consortium of leading European healthcare regions, companies, universities and hospitals* today announced the start of the first large scale care coordination and telehealth program in the European Union to support tens of thousands of people living with chronic conditions. The three-year ACT@Scale program will collect and analyze the health outcome and economic impact data for large populations of chronic patients and elderly people to develop, test and consolidate 'best practice' care coordination and telehealth programs that can be replicable and successfully rolled out across the European Union. The program aims to reach more than 75,000 patients in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and Denmark by 2019.