MedCity News July 25, 2024
Arundhati Parmar

A 10-year partnership between the two organization will standardize patient monitoring hardware and software across 49 Bon Secours Mercy Health hospitals.

Bon Secours Mercy Health announced last week that it has entered into a 10-year partnership with medical device maker Royal Philips that will standardize patient monitoring systems in all 49 hospitals. The Cincinnati-based Catholic health system believes that this technological upgrade will ultimately reduce cost burden and transform care delivery.

In an interview, a Bon Secours nursing executive said that the organization’s hospitals had disparate monitoring systems, meaning nurses and physicians have to deal with slightly different ways of caring for patients depending on the location.

“Previously 80% of our hardware technology was Philips. Other than that, it was...

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