Samsung acquires Xealth in push toward connected care

Samsung Electronics has announced its agreement to acquire Xealth, a health care integration platform with a network of more than 500 American hospitals, in order to create a link between health surveillance at home and clinical decision-making.

Why it matters

The data on the health of customers measured by well-being tools and electronic health files are largely partitioned. But connected care platforms connect patients with well-being data collect with portable devices and provide information to clinicians in their patient file systems promise greater change to preventive care.

“Data on customer health of portable devices can fulfill the context that is missing hospitals and provide more data analysis possibilities that were not only available with clinical files,” Mike Mcsherry, XEalth CEO, in Samsung’s announcement on Tuesday.

With a more complete image of a patient’s health, suppliers could better monitor patients and improve their decision -making, said Samsung.

While portable devices, such as its smartwatch and its ring with health surveillance features, including sleep apnea detection, and its portfolio of domestic devices are at the heart of the vision of connected care of Samsung, the company needed a way to integrate into health systems, according to TM Roh, president and actor in the division of the device.

“We believe that the acquisition of Xealth, with its accumulated expertise and its vast health care network, will be an anchor to accelerate Samsung’s efforts to support health systems and digital health partners through really connected care,” Roh said in a press release.

Xealth, which was incubated for the first time in the Providence health system a decade ago, then launched in 2016, is a customizable patient engagement platform that gives control of health systems on how they manage, filter and use the data.

The acquisition is expected to close this year. Xealth digital partners, which have more than 70, according to Samsung, based in South Korea, will all have access to the technology giant platform.

The biggest trend

Samsung has largely focused on intuitive mobile technology and portable devices in health space.

While innovations on digital health have led to an improvement in patient care, coordination between portable devices and remote patient monitoring devices and decision -making will make the hospital in the future a reality, according to Cherry Drulis, RN, director of Healthcare Mobile B2B in Samsung Electronics America.

“Mobile devices and portable devices can use the power of data significantly through the continuum of care, as long as they improve rather than hindering productivity, communications and, above all, patient care,” she said IT news for health care Last year.

In March, Aaron Sheedy, chief of the Xealth, joined Advocate Health, the third largest non-profit health system in the United States, in Himss25 to speak of a fast healthcare interoperability of data in terms of data with data with the DSE of suppliers who reached an increase of 30% in the commitment of patients.

Thanks to the configuration of the Xealth platform, clinical information entered into the Advocate DSE triggers the sending of relevant information on patient education. The platform also gives the visibility of lawyers of the lawyer on how patients are progressing in interactions, and Fir, which allows the exchange of bidirectional information, also reduces it, said Sheedy.

At the same time as

“Xealth and Samsung share a common goal to advance the digital health space for truly connected care,” Mcsherry said in a statement. “With Samsung and our network of health leaders, we design a bridge between home health surveillance and clinical decision -making, with providers ‘workflow considerations and patients’ commitment at the heart of this effort.”

Andrea Fox is editor -in -chief of Healthcare It News.
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