MEDICAL SERVICES & DEVICES
Julia Strandberg Chief Business Leader
Philips
Philips is positioning RPM as part of a broader shift towards connected, longitudinal care, linking hospitalbased monitoring with virtual and hospital-at-home pathways.
Summarising Philips’ approach to RPM, Julia Strandberg, Chief Business Leader Connected Care at Philips, says:“ Care is longitudinal – it doesn’ t begin or end at the hospital door. When data is connected across environments, clinicians can see a more continuous patient trajectory rather than disconnected snapshots. That broader context helps reduce noise, improve situational awareness, and allow care teams to focus their time on what matters most: earlier intervention and better patient outcomes.”
Its patient-monitoring ecosystem combines connected medical devices, central monitoring and software, with Philips increasingly integrating thirdparty wearable biosensors rather than relying solely on its own hardware. In August 2026, the company announced collaborations with Blue Spark Technologies, Cuviva, LifeSignals, Respiree and smartQare to expand monitoring beyond the bedside.
The strategy is particularly relevant to hospital-at-home. In May 2026, a Philips-led consortium was selected by Region Stockholm to support a hospital-at-home programme capable of serving up to 15,000 patients annually, with near-realtime physiological data available to healthcare professionals across hospital and primary-care settings.
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