Philips and AWS Partner to Transform Healthcare with Cloud and AI
In a move poised to reshape the landscape of healthcare technology, Royal Philips has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be its preferred cloud provider. This strategic partnership aims to accelerate innovation, improve patient care, and drive down infrastructure costs across Philips’ global healthcare informatics solutions.
Over the past year, Philips has already achieved significant milestones with AWS. They’ve supported an impressive 34 million patient exams in the cloud and manage 134 petabytes of data, including 11 billion medical images. The company’s goal is to scale this to an exabyte by 2030, demonstrating an aggressive commitment to cloud-based solutions. Key achievements include deploying solutions across more than 200 healthcare sites worldwide, reducing infrastructure costs by 36%, and connecting 1.3 million IoT devices to the cloud.
“Our deepening relationship with AWS represents a significant milestone in Philips’ digital transformation journey,” said Shez Partovi, chief innovation & strategy officer at Royal Philips. “By harnessing the power of AWS’s AI technology and healthcare-specific services, we can more rapidly innovate and scale our digital health solutions, ultimately helping healthcare providers deliver better patient outcomes and experiences while reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.”
AI-Powered Solutions for Urgent Healthcare Challenges
Philips is leveraging AWS’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the healthcare industry. A prime example is the Tasy EMR AI Virtual Assistant, powered by Amazon Bedrock. This tool automates the capture of patient data, reducing the administrative burden on clinicians. This automation alleviates a time-consuming task, which could give doctors more time to focus on the patients.
This technology is designed to address the demands of clinical duties as doctors are experiencing burnout and face staff shortages. Philips plans to explore generative AI capabilities to further improve this issue by offering conversational reporting and patient history summaries to improve workflow. The goal is to alleviate the burden to allow for physicians to focus on the critical decision-making aspects of patient care.
Strategic Benefits and Future Growth
The partnership demonstrates the power of cloud computing, offering scalable, secure, and interoperable solutions that can be deployed on a global scale, ensuring regulatory compliance across varied healthcare systems.
Furthermore, the availability of select Philips solutions in the AWS Marketplace streamlines procurement, which accelerates adoption cycles. The long-standing AWS-Philips relationship, which dates back to 2008, and Philips’s role as the first launch customer for AWS healthcare-specific services indicates that this partnership is more than a simple vendor agreement and is a deep product co-development partnership.
This collaboration exemplifies AWS’s enterprise strategy and strengthens the healthcare sector, making it more scalable, more cost-effective, and making it possible for doctors to spend more time attending to patients.
