Royal Philips and Banner Health announced a multi-year partnership intended to further innovate and expand on their successful joint connected healthcare programs such as the Intensive Ambulatory Care (IAC) pilot and telehealth programs. The two organizations will collaborate, leveraging Philips’ knowledge and research in connected care and population health management (PHM) and Banner’s deep clinical and operational insights to identify and deliver integrated solutions that are intended to improve the health of Banner’s patients. At the same time, the partnership will look to create best practices that enable Banner to improve the patient experience and, ultimately, transform healthcare for patients across the Southwest. As part of the agreement, Banner and Philips will create a governance structure that will allow both organizations to identify solution delivery projects and innovative technologies that can help improve the patient experience and outcomes. Banner and Philips are committed to driving innovation in health management and intend to look at how the healthcare network can take a more connected approach around health spaces such as cardiology by incorporating advanced imaging and interventional technologies, genomics, digital pathology, and data analytic. In addition, it is anticipated that the partnership will evaluate innovative services and business models that may enable Banner to adopt the latest in healthcare technologies, regardless of vendor, in order to deliver on their mission to make a difference in people’s lives through quality patient care. The agreement will also give Banner access to Philips solutions such as ‘PerformanceBridge Practice,’ which is a radiology practice management solution, in order to help drive operational efficiencies in the health network’s extensive inpatient and outpatient imaging capabilities. This new, value-based radiology toolset, delivered by Philips’ Radiology Solutions business, can help improve operational performance across the Banner enterprise. The program involves a phased approach that is designed to: 1) understand and benchmark current imaging performance, 2) optimize performance to improve efficiency, clinical quality and patient experience, and 3) facilitate delivery of appropriate and sustainable imaging to improve management of at-risk patients, optimize access, and retain patients within target markets.