French public hospital system Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) has entered a new partnership with Germany-based medical technology firm Siemens Healthineers.
AP-HP and Siemens Healthineers are already working together in the fields of MRI, CT and nuclear medicine, diagnostics, radiotherapy, and interventional surgery.
Under the new partnership, AP-HP will launch a new collaboration model implemented by Siemens Healthineers and become the world’s first institution to adopt the new approach.
The two organisations aim to advance their technological, scientific, and organisational collaborations, and adapt to changes in the French healthcare system.
AP-HP CEO Nicolas Revel said: “The signing of the framework agreement with Siemens Healthineers is an opportunity for our institution to have a lasting and positive impact on the quality of care for our patients through the co-development of solutions based on innovative technologies that meet clinical and organisational needs.
“This partnership will also simplify administrative procedures and streamline processes to increase and accelerate innovative research projects involving our medical and scientific teams.
“This new partnership dynamic with Siemens Healthineers is perfectly in line with our research and development strategy described in our 30 levers for acting together and the AP-HP Carnot label.”
In addition to regular clinical collaborations, the two organisations aim to co-design, co-develop, test and deploy systemic solutions and develop new large-scale projects.
The collaboration will focus on chronic diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, neurovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and oncology.
The technologies will be designed in close partnership with healthcare professionals and will be integrated into the hospitals to address the needs of professionals and patients.
The new patient care models from prevention to return home, developed by promoting early detection, would help respond to the current and future health challenges in France.
Furthermore, the projects may evolve into cross-collaborations with institutions of the European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA), in which AP-HP is a founding member.
Siemens Healthineers CEO Bernd Montag said: “We are very proud to be able to further strengthen our global collaboration with AP-HP, Europe’s biggest university hospital.”
Siemens Healthineers France, Belgium and Luxembourg head Safer-Tebbi said: “We want to accelerate and multiply research programs that will also allow us to co-create and co-develop concrete and impactful solutions for care and organisations.
“This partnership could also have a European dimension, relying on the network of institutions of the EUHA.”
