Philips Enhances Cancer Patient Record Delivery in Partnership With eHealth Global Technologies

Philips Healthcare announced it is teaming up with eHealth Global Technologies Inc. (eHGT), a company that uses pioneering information technology to retrieve medical records and images and securely deliver them electronically to healthcare providers. eHGT's services are designed to reduce the time cancer patients spend waiting for their first oncology appointment by efficiently gathering diagnostic imaging and other data and presenting it on demand at the oncologist's point-of-care.

Philips has long enjoyed success as a purveyor of advanced technology in healthcare – and in oncology in particular – by offering advanced imaging, treatment planning, image-guided interventional therapy, home monitoring and IT solutions. Several years ago the company an approach that focused on how patients actually experience the pathway of care while confronting the challenges that hinder doctors, nurses and health care administrators from delivering streamlined patient-centric care. The eHGT alliance addresses an often uncoordinated handoff in the care continuum: the delivery of appropriately-formatted diagnostic scans and records – usually from multiple departments and locations – to the oncology specialist and treatment team.