Healthcare-as-a-Service is the new way forward to ensure that healthcare systems are ready for future crises
Philips, a player in health technology and VPS Healthcare, an integrated healthcare service provider, have partnered to prepare for the post-Covid era of healthcare.
A strategic white paper entitled ‘Above and Beyond: Reshaping Healthcare after Covid-19’, developed jointly by Philips and VPS Healthcare, advocates the Healthcare-as-a-Service (HAAS) model that will ensure asset-light, OpEx-driven systems allowing patients to receive the care they need when they need it without exhausting resources.
The challenges of quickly mobilizing resources to cope with the surge in Covid-19 patients alongside regular patient traffic, forced healthcare organizations to adopt new care delivery methods which are fast becoming the standard norms.
However, in order to facilitate and sustain the changes, healthcare organizations need to implement alternative care models. The whitepaper explores the importance of collaboration between various players in the healthcare sector in order to enable a robust HAAS model.
“Applying telehealth solutions, such as tele-radiology and remote patient monitoring, and forming more efficient care ecosystems are among the many lessons the current crisis has thought us,” observed Frans van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips.
“Together with VPS Healthcare and in line with our purpose to improve the health and well-being of 2 billion people per year by 2025, we are looking at Healthcare-as-a-Service as the way forward,” remarked Vincenzo Ventricelli, CEO, Philips Middle East & Turkey.
“Learning from the current crises, we must reinvent and build a robust healthcare ecosystem that can cater to the needs of all the populations in the future. Healthcare-as-a-Service is an ideal model to be adapted,” commented Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and Managing Director, VPS Healthcare.
