Healthcare technology: Opportunities in patient monitoring and telemetry
- By Philips
- February 03 2026
- Duration 12: 31
- Originally published on the HFMA podcast, Voices in Healthcare Finance
In the final episode of the Philips-sponsored technology series with Voices in Healthcare Finance, HFMA host Erika Grotto speaks with Stacy Kelleher from Philips about data opportunities in patient monitoring and how telemetry can be used more effectively.
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At-a-glance:
- Monitoring data is an underused enterprise asset.
- Modern telemetry is shifting from a background utility to a strategic financial lever.
- The future of monitoring depends on integration, automation and longitudinal data.
Patient monitoring produces massive amounts of high-fidelity data — often a gigabyte per patient per day — yet most health systems still lack the infrastructure and workflows to fully leverage it.
In a recent Voices in Healthcare Finance conversation, HFMA Senior Editor Erika Grotto spoke with Stacy Kelleher, Region Business Leader for Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips.
Kelleher explained that while hospitals use monitoring data for timely alerts and centralized surveillance, most of the available information remains untapped.
The issue isn’t only storage or cost. It’s the ability to turn that data into meaningful, scalable insights at a time when staffing shortages and widening experience gaps make efficiency more critical than ever.
Stacy Kelleher
North America Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring
Philips
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