Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Siemens steps into key population health with IBM

Siemens Healthineers is entering into the key population health with IBM. Siemens Healthineers is entering the population health management market through a partnership with IBM.


The move comes over 2 years after Cerner gained the hospital information systems business line of Siemens Healthcare, while leaving medical imaging and diagnostic laboratories as Siemens’ primary business in the United States of America, with the name replaced and changed to Siemens Healthineers. Siemens Healthineers is stepping into the population health with IBM.


Now, IBM’s Watson Care Manager population health management suite of software and services will be sold by Siemens, as well as providing consulting services.


“We’re at an unprecedented time period in healthcare,” Deborah DiSan zo, general manager for IBM Watson Health, claims. “Mature and developing markets are immensely concentrated on how sufferer results are optimized, quality is standardized among individuals and across populations, and costs are decreased. Siemens and IBM are perfect partners to work at the forefront of this evolution and evaluate personalized healthcare in the United States of America and internationally.”


Watson Care Manager is a population health management system which is utilizing Apple apps to enable clients to gather and share information with clinicians to support patient engagement. Leveraging IBM’s acquisitions of care management vendor Phytel and population health analytics vendor Explorys, Watson Care Manager in the year of 2015 held data on ninety million lives.


Utilizing Apple HealthKit, information and data can be shifted from a device to a cloud application. Using Apple ResearchKit, contributors can better manage the signing up of sufferers for clinical trials. In total, Care Manager supports development of personalized patient engagement programs to make better the individual results, the companies claim.


Executives from both IBM and Siemens are also planning to co-develop latest population health management tools.


 

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