Philips and The Texas A&M University System will establish The Center for Global Health and Innovation on campus, A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced on June 8.
The goal is to foster public-private partnerships to rapidly design, develop, prototype, and showcase new healthcare solutions.
The work is part of the Healthy South Texas pilot project, which creates integrated emergency medical services technologies to better coordinate emergency response efforts, develop point-of-care diagnostics and biosurveillance to help avoid epidemics and pandemics.
“Many of today’s problems are too complicated and expensive to be addressed by the public sector alone,” Sharp said in a statement. “Public-private partnerships can show the way for addressing issues such as healthcare in a collaborative way that benefits our citizens, both as health care consumers and taxpayers.”
The collaboration will focus on three project areas:
The Healthy South Texas Population Health Initiative will build a foundation for prevention, community outreach, and engagement. The program will also extend wellness services by expanding and enhancing disease prevention and control programs to every citizen of South Texas. Philips and Texas A&M University System will look to scale and replicate the best practice models of population health management nationally and globally.
EMS Integrated Solutions is aimed at increasing real-time visibility into medical resources and availability. The program will co-develop holistic solutions to help support emergency medical coordinatorsincrease efficiency and efficacy. It will include developing a platform for coordination of EMS supplies and service, as well as solutions that leverage Philips decision-support and analytics technologies to help state, city and municipal administrators prepare for, respond to, and recover from major medical disasters.
Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Biosurveillance will combine Philips expertise in point-of-care diagnostics for patients with The Texas A&M University System’s expertise in animal biosurveillance. The collaboration seeks to establish an integrated network for monitoring infectious diseases and help to establish standards for a “One Health” approach, a concept that recognizes the health of humans is connected to both the health of animals and the environment.
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