April 2, 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Sebastian, Spain - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology today announced the results of the Advancing Care Coordination & Telehealth Deployment at Scale (ACT@Scale) Program during the 19th annual International Conference on Integrated Care in San Sebastian, Spain. ACT@Scale is the first of its kind initiative to explore the organizational and structural processes needed to successfully implement care coordination and telehealth services on a large scale. Published results of the three-year program across six European regions are now available, along with recommendations for best practices in connected care.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has established the target goal of a 25% relative reduction in risk of premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory diseases by 2025 in Europe [1]. Connected care is viewed by many governments as essential to enable more efficient, patient-centric and continuous care for the aging EU population. However, while many local connected care pilot programs are successful, they fail to scale to their full potential.

ACT@Scale builds on the expertise and successful experiences of the ACT program, leveraging tested collaborative methods and tools to implement improvements, and is fully aligned with the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging objectives to deploy integrated care for chronically ill patients. The EU-sponsored project comprises 16 partners from eight EU countries, including 14 programs in six regions coordinated by Philips.
"The ACT@Scale program delivers a clear methodology for service quality improvement with EU-wide evidence-based recommendations for coordinated care and telehealth deployment, and further demonstrates our commitment to help care providers and societies implement and scale innovative delivery models to support tens of thousands of elderly or people living with chronic conditions in different local settings," said Carla Kriwet, Chief Business Leader, Connected Care, Philips. "We look forward to sharing the outcomes of this study that can be successfully replicated across the European Union. The synergy of Philips' Connected Care business and Research helps us to scale high impact projects together with our customers."

Digital health best practices for large-scale deployment

The ACT@Scale handbook contains recommendations to achieve change at scale, and spotlights examples of success. It identifies best-in-class processes, structures and ways of working across the six participating European regions. Insights and recommendations can be used to build large scale deployment across Europe and beyond.

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