HealthManagement, Volume 4 / Issue 3 / 2009

Sant Pau Hospital and Philips Pioneer Healthcare Technology Partnership Model

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona and Royal Philips Electronics have signed a 10-year agreement. Philips will be responsible for the provision, maintaining and replacement of medical equipment. It will provide the hospital with consistent access to leading imaging technology solutions, designed around its needs.

 

According to the contract, Philips will ensure that the hospital is equipped with solutions that put clinicians' and patients' needs at the centre of care. Medical equipment will be replaced in line with agreed cycles, based on clinical guidance from Hospital Sant Pau and taking into account any technological advances that occur during the contract period. The agreement

includes management of equipment from imaging specialties including MR, CT, nuclear medicine, x-ray and ultrasound.

 

As a result of the agreement, the hospital Sant Pau will become an international reference for Philips.

 

For more information please visit: www.philips.com

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