Salt Lake City, UTAH, U.S. and Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) andNavican, an Intermountain Healthcare company, today signed an agreement to deploy a precision health informatics solution that will allow hospitals and health systems worldwide to access the sophisticated services ofIntermountain’s successful precision medicine program in a “turn-key” manner. The new services, that will be made available through Navican, are aimed at improving outcomes for late stage cancer patients and will offer specialized programs with expert guidance for both oncologists and patients.
Intermountain Healthcare – a Utah-based, Integrated Delivery Network comprised of 22 hospitals and 180 clinics – provides a nationally leading precision cancer genomics program through its Intermountain Precision Genomics laboratory. The genetic makeup of each patient’s cancer is analyzed. Then a team of skilled molecular tumor specialists and specialized treatment navigators is employed to review each test and determine how to most effectively treat that cancer case. This team approach gives oncologists the information and support they need to prepare a customized, targeted treatment plan for each patient. Nearly 80% of the patients treated at Intermountain Precision Genomics have been connected to targeted drug therapies, which can help lengthen survival in advanced cancer patients without increasing costs.
To this end, Navican will use Philips IntelliSpace Genomics, a comprehensive precision medicine platform built to support the implementation and scaling of informatics-heavy precision medicine programs. Resulting from more than a decade of research and development with clinical partners, it offers integrated workflows with advanced analytic capabilities and clinical decision support by unifying the whole patient picture, and streamlines collaboration across hospitals to support pathologists, oncologists, and researchers. The platform integrates N-of-One’sinterpretation capabilities and extensive knowledge-bases providing ready access to a vast amount of available reference literature, guidelines, and evidence further enhancing the platform’s clinical trial matching tools.
The “turnkey” precision medicine solution will first be made available within the Intermountain Healthcare network. Availability to other hospitals and healthcare systems worldwide is expected second half of 2017. The solution will be presented at Philips booth #5107 and Intermountain’ s booth #3123 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO) taking place 2 – 6 June in Chicago U.S.