Digital health platform Validic will provide access to patient data at scale from clinical devices, wearables, and consumer health applications, to feed into the recently announced SAP Connected Health Platform, through a new strategic relationship.
Validic currently collects data from over 280 connected health devices and applications, and this will provide the patient-generated health data required for SAP’s Health Engagement solution, designed to enable health providers, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies to build custom applications to help patients track their health.
SAP Health Engagement is one of the offerings to be built on the SAP Connected Health platform, which will process and analyse in real time big data from various medical sources in a single system, such as clinical data from electronic medical records, biological data from genome sequencing and data from consumer and clinical health devices.
According to Validic, having a broad set of patient data integrated into one system will allow healthcare providers to better analyse a patient’s health, resulting in personalised treatment options.
“Together, SAP and Validic will build health solutions that empower patients, caregivers and researchers to realise the potential of personalised medicine,” said Drew Schiller, co-founder and CEO of Validic.
“Increasingly, care will be managed, measured and influenced outside the four walls of the hospital or clinical setting. Leveraging and integrating patient-generated health data is becoming a market necessity for healthcare, wellness and life science organisations aiming to improve the health of their populations. The strategic relationship with SAP will help fuel the use of actionable data from clinical remote monitoring devices, wearables and health applications – key to providing an innovative, patient-centred connected health approach.”
Dr Werner Eberhardt, chief product officer of SAP Connected Health, said that the company is building an ecosystem of partners on the platform to enable effective use of health related data.
Validic was recently recognised by Frost & Sullivan with its Visionary Innovation Leadership Award, as the industry leader and ‘de facto’ standard in digital health data connectivity and interoperability.
