Hill-Rom expands digital health capabilities in new global collaboration with Microsoft

Hill-Rom has entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to bring advanced, actionable point-of-care data and solutions to caregivers and healthcare provider organizations. The combined offerings, using Microsoft Azure, are intended to dynamically 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. The solutions combine Hill-Rom’s deep clinical knowledge and streaming operational data from medical devices, and Microsoft’s cloud, including Azure Internet of Things (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. The combination of medical device data and Azure Machine Learning will help assess and analyze critical and secure information at the bedside, delivering actionable insights to clinicians that can help reduce costly complications and enhance efficiency and patient outcomes. In addition to localized and cloud-based patient risk identification and communications, the collaboration with Microsoft offers hospitals simplified installation, integration, information security, and support while enabling scalability and flexibility for IT departments across the globe.