Royal Philips has made a deal with Validic to more easily integrate digital health data from third-party medical and fitness devices and sensors into its HealthSuite digital platform. From there, it will be synced with other Philips’ services, such as Personal Health Programs, Lifeline medical alert services, and eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion eHealth apps.

The Philips HealthSuite digital platform uses smart devices and mobile apps to help people make more confident health and lifestyle-related decisions.“Increasingly, health care is moving beyond the walls of the hospital, enabled by connected devices to monitor both health and care,” Jeroen Tas, CEO of Connected Care and Health Informatics at Philips, said in a statement. “We can now take a next step by securely combining the data generated by someone’s glucose meter and fitness tracker with their clinical data, so that caregivers can discover relevant and actionable insights for new models of personalized health management of their patients. Our collaboration with Validic helps to accelerate this step.”

The Philips HealthSuite digital platform uses smart devices and mobile apps to help people make more confident health and lifestyle-related decisions. On the other hand, by integrating with electronic medical records and other clinical data sources, it also supports health systems in the delivery of care coordination solutions. The collaboration with Validic will further augment the integration of consumer-generated personal health data from fitness wearables, remote monitoring devices and health apps, as well as medical devices like blood pressure cuffs, health patches and glucose meters, into existing and new connected health services.

Validic’s platform connects with hundreds of fitness and health devices, and is reaching around 223 million people in 47 countries.