Can Gingerbread Help Improve Patient Monitoring and Safety? Philips says Yes!

Instruments designed to improve situation aware help pilots understand the current and future state of a flight so they can better anticipate as well as react to changes. Philips recognized the need for more situational awareness in healthcare and to address it, they developed a digital patient avatar that looks remarkably like a gingerbread man. At the AdvaMed MedTech Conference, the Healthcare IT Today team caught sight of this “gingerbread man” and were intrigued enough to find out more. Julia Strandberg, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care and Monitoring at Philips, agreed to come on-camera to provide more details. Learn more about Philips at https://www.philips.com/ Find more great health IT content at https://www.healthcareittoday.com/