Advancing care from hospital to home: Our transitional care partnerships
- By Philips
- March 31 2026
- 3 min read
Health delivery models are in the midst of a structural transformation. Health systems are moving beyond a hospital-centric approach toward a more connected continuum designed to improve continuity of care, relieve capacity pressures and enable patients to recover safely where they are most comfortable: at home. At the center of this shift is transitional care. No longer a handoff between care settings, it has become a strategic area of focus that bridges hospital and community and home environments, redefining patient monitoring technology’s role beyond hospital walls. You can learn more about our full range of technology partnerships by visiting the dedicated webpage.
At-a-glance:
- As health systems embrace transitional care, they need patient monitoring solutions that span in-hospital care with virtual and Hospital‑at‑Home care.
- Philips, in partnership with leading technology providers, has integrated patient data from advanced wearable technologies into our patient monitoring ecosystem.
- This closes gaps in patient data and enhances clinicians’ ability to capture data and continually get insight into patients’ conditions as they move through the continuum of care.
Transitional care is defined as “a collaborative approach to healthcare that aims to improve continuity and coordination of care between different levels of care”. This refers to the full patient journey, from hospital admission through acute care, general wards, discharge and home monitoring. The goal of transitional care is simple but ambitious: help patients safely move to the home setting without compromising care quality. A smooth progression ensures that as patients move across settings, clinicians never lose visibility into their condition – and patients benefit from consistent, coordinated care.
A key challenge in transitional care is around visibility into a patient’s condition. Clinicians need continuous, reliable insight, as gaps in vital sign data and fragmented workflows can obscure early warning signs that a patient is in distress and strain already stretched clinical teams.
To address this challenge, Philips has partnered with leading technology innovators to integrate their wearable biosensor data directly into our patient monitoring ecosystem. (You can learn more about our full range of technology partnerships by visiting the dedicated webpage.) These partnerships enable more robust – and at times virtual – clinical oversight of patients, expanding clinical sightlines and closing data gaps, with the goals of:
- Detecting early signs of patient deterioration
- Reducing avoidable readmissions
- Supporting chronic-care and post‑acute monitoring
- Extending clinical oversight into home and community settings
One of our partnerships integrates smartQare’s wearable vital sign sensors – suitable for both in-hospital and home environments – with our patient monitoring platforms. For example, 24/7 remote monitoring provided by its viQtor wearable can capture minute-by-minute vital signs data and send it to Philips monitoring platforms, where it’s stored and visualized as one, continuous record. We also partner with Respiree, whose wearables and predictive AI analytics focuses on cardio‑respiratory function, one of the most sensitive indicators of patient decline.
Key benefits
Some of the many benefits include:
Smooth workflow integration: These partnerships allow health systems to add wearables into their workflows without adding clinical or technical complexity, since the data streams from the biosensors into their existing Philips hospital patient monitoring infrastructure. This helps improve efficiency and minimize disruptions.
Extended oversight: Extending visibility beyond the hospital walls, supports clinicians’ ability to detect early signs of deterioration wherever the patient is.
Actionable insights: One of the key benefits of these partnerships is that they go beyond ability not just to “monitor” but to create insights that support proactive care and timely interventions. The data from the wearables integrates into Philips Guardian automated Early Warning Scoring solution, where advanced algorithms can inform clinicians about the patient’s condition and send notifications when intervention is needed, including to a central station or a nurse’s mobile device.
Summary
The question is no longer whether care will extend beyond the hospital. It’s about how effectively health systems can design the infrastructure and data ecosystems to support it. Through strong technology partnerships and our open patient monitoring approach, Philips is helping health systems do just that. Our technology partnerships are more than product integrations; they are foundational to a new era of connected, patient-centered care delivery. By amplifying patient monitoring with integrated wearable technologies, we are equipping clinicians with actionable insight, empowering patients in their recovery and generating measurable clinical and operational value across the entire care journey.
Integrating wearable biosensors into the open patient monitoring ecosystem
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Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.