Comprehensive, connected medical care for service members and their families
- By Philips
- March 17 2025
- Duration 2:1
Anywhere care aims to drive better health outcomes while supporting troop readiness and deployability. By connecting every level of care, the virtual medical center can help manage service member and family health on base, enable connected care in the field, and better coordinate care during a crisis.
At-a-glance:
- [0:22] – Connected, anywhere care to keep service members deployable and family members in garrison healthy
- [1:17] – Virtual medical center supports care from field to clinic to home
- [2:14] – Anywhere care to support government response to emergency response
The Philips virtual medical center completely connects every level of care with the aim to drive exponentially better outcomes in the field and at home.
Managing service member and family health on base
Leveraging fully integrated global telecommunications, healthcare data is constantly moving securely from all points of care to the system of record and clinical teams can access it in real time. This transforms what used to be disparate data points into actionable intelligence. Health trends in garrisons around the world are captured for precise situational awareness, making it crystal clear who is deployable, who’s not, and why.
Being deployable often comes down to simple, easily correctible issues like dental readiness or sleep problems. Catching them earlier means faster, more effective interventions. Mother and child care is a big part of garrison life, too, and we bring all the same advanced capabilities together to promote whole family health.
Enabling connected health in the field
The virtual medical center also supports service personnel once they’re deployed. Every platoon medic who is equipped with a wearable device is connected to the virtual medical center. They have all the data they need to make decisions on the ground and get recommendations from specialists. No individual is left acting alone – a huge force multiplier. Information is continuously sent forward to the next level of care for faster hand offs. At the same time, continuous monitoring propels greater continuity of care.
The capabilities of the virtual medical center don’t stop when a service member returns stateside. It continues to connect highly coordinated roles, bringing the best care at the right time to all steps in the journey. Returning service personnel get what they need to heal and transition to productive service, whether that means redeploying safely, or discharging successfully back to civilian life.
Better coordinated care in the face of crisis
Anything virtual medical center capabilities can do to support operational medicine on the battlefield can also be applied to support emergency medicine stateside. In the event of a potential outbreak, natural disaster or mass casualty event, for example, the virtual medical center keeps large response teams in sync. Clinicians on the ground and responding government agencies stay in constant contact. Capacity can be added wherever it is needed.
Across clinical use cases, civilian and military, virtual medical center capabilities drive anywhere care throughout the healthcare continuum, aiming to improve response time, coordination of care, and ultimately, outcomes.
