Philips long-term strategic partner Oulu University Hospital celebrates milestone in becoming ‘the smartest hospital in the world’

"We are very pleased with our partnership with Philips, it has brought a true sense of collaboration and a fresh perspective on working together. Throughout the complex project of becoming the smartest hospital in the world, we've successfully overcome obstacles together, and we are very pleased with the support and predictability our relationship provides", says Dr. Kari Ylitalo, Head of the Heart Center of Oulu University Hospital. He continues, "Thanks to our true partnership, we are not only given valuable insight into new technology, but we are also looking forward to developing technology together in the future, ensuring highest patient safety and quality. "

The renewal program aims to transform the operations and facilities of Oulu University Hospital. As part of the long-term strategic partnership, Philips is providing its latest enterprise hospital patient monitoring- and image-guided therapy solutions and innovations as well as maintenance, consultancy and financing services. With the partnership, Philips aims to help drive operational efficiency and improve outcomes, while also enhancing the patient and staff experience. with the overall aim to ensure patient safety and quality and deliver better care for more people.

“We are thrilled to finally see patients being welcomed to the new Oulu university hospital building and to support the hospital’s vision of becoming the smartest hospital in the world”, says Juha Impila, Country manager Finland at Philips Health Systems. He continues “A smart hospital, as we envision it, connects people, data, and technology in intelligent ways to improve operational efficiencies, deliver clinical excellence, and create seamless end-to-end patient experiences both within and beyond hospital walls. Thanks to our strategic partnership, we get to support that vision and Oulu University Hospital’s physicians will be able to provide their patients with the most advanced innovations for the treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases.” Impila adds, "We are very proud of our great partnership with Oulu University Hospital. The mutual feeling is that what we are doing together is great, and that we together will ensure patient safety and quality to deliver better care for more people.”

Philips has delivered 11 state-of-the-art interventional suites to support the hospital’s new interventional cardiology and interventional radiology departments, equipped with the latest release of Philips’ Image Guided Therapy System – Azurion with FlexArm – an advanced image-guided therapy platform that offers the latest innovations to help physicians improve efficiency, workflow and treatment outcomes, while also delivering a unique patient and staff experience. Azurion, together with other integrated live 3D visualization and device guidance solutions from Philips, supports a wide range of minimally invasive procedures, ranging from cardiac and vascular to acute neuro and oncology treatments.

For very complex procedures or combination therapies where open and minimally-invasive surgery may both be involved, Oulu University Hospital’s interventional suites are also equipped with Philips Azurion Hybrid OR. This integrates a surgical operating room and Azurion into a sterile setting for maximum flexibility.

To support multiple procedure types, the suites are also equipped with Philips Interventional Applications Platform – IntraSight, a secure, fully integrated application-based platform that offers a comprehensive suite of clinically proven physiology, imaging, and co-registration tools for image-guided procedures across the interventional lab workflow.

Oulu university hospital is equipped with Philips enterprise solution for hospital patient monitoring (IntelliVue X3, IntelliVue MX550, IntelliVue MX850, IntelliVue MX40, PIC iX and mobile software). The Philips patient monitoring solutions enable quick, confident and consistent care that seamlessly connects data, technology and patients. The solution helps address alarm fatigue, clinical variations and to manage patients as they transition in care, ensuring patient safety and quality.

With Philips patient monitoring solution, the measured patient data is collected and integrated into various hospital information systems, removing manual steps and ensuring high data quality. The patient monitoring transport solution allows optimized workflows where the patient details, history data and consumables follow the patient seamlessly during the transfers, enabling continuous monitoring and time saving from avoiding the re-attachment of cables or re-admitting of patients.

The enterprise solution connects the hospital's patient monitoring with a central monitoring system, PIC iX. The platform makes all necessary information available to the clinical staff throughout the treatment period, regardless of time and place. The platform supports streamline workflows by helping clinicians to detect and respond to patient changes wherever they are in the hospital and protecting the security of patient data via stringent medical industry standards.