Philips Acquires Wellcentive For Population Health Management Technologies

Royal Philips has signed an agreement to acquire Wellcentive, a population health management technology company. In the realm of managing population health, Philips offers enterprise telehealth, home monitoring and personal emergency response systems, as well as personal health services designed to address multiple groups within a population, from intensive ambulatory care for high-risk patients to personal health programs for the general population. Wellcentive complements Philips’ health IT portfolio with cloud-based IT systems to import, aggregate and analyze clinical, claims and financial data across hospital and health systems to help care providers deliver coordinated care that meets new healthcare . . .