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Hill-Rom teams with Microsoft on POS solutions for healthcare

January 11, 2019

Hill-Rom, a medical technology company, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring actionable point-of-care data and solutions to caregivers and healthcare provider organizations.  

The combined offerings, which use Microsoft Azure, are intended to analyze real-time sensing data from medical devices and historical medical record information, and communicate potential patient risk and hospital protocol actions directly to caregivers at the point of care, according to a press release. The solutions combine Hill-Rom's streaming operational data from medical devices and Microsoft's cloud, including Azure IoT and Azure machine learning, to help drive enhanced patient outcomes. The Hill-Rom digital solution offerings will be available to hospitals beginning later in 2019.

"Information and connectivity are critical to providing quality healthcare, reducing length of stay, driving efficiencies across the healthcare continuum and providing clinical and economic value," Hill-Rom president and CEO John Groetelaars said in the release. "Our collaboration with Microsoft will help clinicians identify, communicate and mitigate patient risk in real time, advancing our vision of connected care to address customer challenges and enhance patient outcomes."

Hill-Rom connected solutions will integrate data from the company's medical devices (including smart hospital bed systems, vital signs monitors and other connected devices) and hospitals' electronic medical records through a common gateway infrastructure. 

"Microsoft's AI capabilities make Azure an ideal platform for Hill-Rom's new digital offerings," said Chris Sakalosky, vice president of U.S. health and life sciences at Microsoft Corp. "The powerful combination of Hill-Rom's proven applications with Azure will help empower organizations across all industries, and especially in the health market."