Philips and Samsung team up to expand the connected health ecosystem

“This is an incredibly exciting time in healthcare, as the industry begins to harness the power of data to bring better care to consumers,” said James Stansberry, Senior Vice President and GM, ARTIK IoT, Samsung Electronics. “Samsung ARTIK-enabled devices and cloud services integrated with Philips HealthSuite can address the growing need for connected health platforms that can safely access, share, and analyze information, helping health systems and providers achieve their goal of delivering better care to consumers, from prevention and detection to diagnosis and treatment.”

Broad range of applications and services

Device manufacturers using Samsung’s ARTIK hardware or cloud services will be able to deliver new benefits to their customers with the broad range of applications and services provided by the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform, including integration of devices and device data into Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Personal Health Records (PHR), and advanced health analytics. Healthcare application developers working with the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform will be able to use data from devices connected to Samsung’s SmartThings Cloud to develop new, data-driven connected health solutions. In addition, they can leverage data from various sources and IoT solutions, like QualcommLife, Validic and Philips’ own HealthSuite IoT solution which is based on Amazon Web Services IoT. Next to this, devices built with ARTIK secure Systems-on-Modules (SOMs) will also be able to integrate with the HealthSuite Digital Platform.

Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform is an open, secure platform of services, capabilities, and tools designed to enable development of next-generation connected health and wellness and healthcare innovations. It provides a range of digital tools for application developers and solution providers enabling universal ‘Big Data’ management, predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence in support of health management by consumers and care professionals. Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform is an open, enterprise-grade, secure platform that provides integrated solutions, from hardware systems-on-modules to cloud services, to help companies get to market faster with secure, interoperable, and intelligent IoT products and services. With strong security and privacy protection from hardware to cloud, ARTIK is ideally suited for industries such as healthcare.