AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, and LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - June 06, 2016) - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG) (AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Pegasystems Inc.(NASDAQ: PEGA), a leading provider of strategic business applications, today announced a collaboration to enable managed care service providers and accountable care organizations to better leverage connected devices and health data to personalize care and improve health outcomes.

By connecting the Pega Care Management Application to the Philips HealthSuite Cloud platform, caregivers can remotely manage care with connected health applications to provide immediate access to a patient's health status. Now care teams -- from physicians and nurse practitioners to home caregivers and care managers - can identify potential health issues in the moment and coordinate a timely response to intervene and improve adherence to personal care plans. With general availability expected later this year, these new connected health solutions developed and offered by Pegasystems will support care managers and insurers to increase care quality and decrease hospital readmissions while also lowering total costs.

Philips and Pegasystems will showcase the power of this collaboration at the annual Pegaworld conference which starts today in Las Vegas. The companies will demonstrate their first integrated care concepts using evidence-based chronic care guidelines and the new FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard. For example, a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patient on inhaler treatment can self-monitor oxygen levels using a wearable device. At the same time, this health data is shared with the care team in real time so they can quickly respond to patients in need.
Pega Care Management Application enables healthcare providers and insurers to manage and coordinate care across patient care teams. This solution is further enhanced by joining the growing ecosystem of the Philips Cloud platform, which provides connectivity to millions of connected health devices, integration with hospital EMR and clinical systems, advanced predictive analytics, and secured cloud storage and sharing of longitudinal patient data.

"We're entering a new paradigm in healthcare, one in which devices and wearables can help care teams extend their services well beyond the doctor's office," said Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, Pegasystems. "By working with Philips to leverage its deep expertise in connected health and by connecting our solutions to the HealthSuite Cloud platform, we enable new levels of collaboration across the entire health continuum to deliver differentiated personalized care that improves patient outcomes."

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