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Philips and Qualcomm announce strategic collaboration to advance personalized connected health careAMSTERDAM and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc.,today announced a strategic technology collaboration to advance connected health across the health continuum -- from healthy living and prevention to chronic care management and home care. The companies are teaming up to leverage each other's respective leading capabilities – Philips' leadership in connected health informatics and regulated health care cloud data management and analytics, and Qualcomm Life's expertise in secure, medical-grade device connectivity and integration. This collaboration will enable both companies to offer care providers enhanced, scalable, connected care solutions and services within a secure global ecosystem. Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform will serve as the medical device connectivity solution for Philips HealthSuite, the company's cloud-enabled health ecosystem of devices, apps and digital tools. By joining the Qualcomm Life 2net Ecosystem, Philips provides its HealthSuite users seamless access to a wide array of connected medical devices including medication dispensers, medical grade biosensors, ventilators, blood pressure monitors, point of care self-tests, and blood glucose meters. Philips will leverage the 2net Platform to connect both Philips and third party medical devices. Secure connectivity, data capture and transmission powered by the 2net Platform, 2net Hub and 2net Mobile, will enable HealthSuite users to customize and scale connected care programs, add additional medical devices and gain a fuller patient profile over longer periods of time, with the aim to support timely intervention, assist in diagnosis, personalize treatment plans and help contribute to the goal of improving patient outcomes. An example of an implementation of this connectivity collaboration will go live shortly with Philips' Trilogy ventilator family and Care Orchestrator care management application to advance care for patients with COPD and other respiratory conditions. As part of the collaboration, Qualcomm Life will leverage Philips HealthSuite as a global, secure, data management and storage solution for its medical-grade 2net Platform, allowing Qualcomm Life to tap into the value of health data through data normalization, aggregation and analytics. Qualcomm Life customers can now have direct access to build applications, integrate with electronic health record systems, store normalized data, run analytics, and manage authorization and consents in a compliant and secure environment. "An undeniable leader in the health care technology industry, Philips brings a deep technology expertise to their health care initiatives, and by joining forces we aim to deliver intelligent care to patients and providers at scale," said Rick Valencia, president, Qualcomm Life, Inc. "We are thrilled to be working with Philips, enabling Qualcomm Life to continue to grow its ecosystem and ultimately serve as the underpinning of the Internet of Medical Things." Jeroen Tas and Rick Valencia will deliver keynote presentations at Qualcomm Life's connected health ecosystem conference, Connect 2016, on August 31, in San Diego, CA. For more information please visit http://www.qualcommlife.com/connect/ and follow @PhilipsLiveFrom, @QualcommLife and the event hashtag, #qualcommconnect. For more information on Philips HealthSuite, please visit: http://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/innovation/about-health-suite. About Royal Philips About Qualcomm Incorporated Qualcomm and 2net are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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