Philips has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to drive its cloud-first strategy, enhancing its healthcare informatics solutions worldwide.
The collaboration aims to advance innovation, improve patient outcomes, and reduce infrastructure costs through AWS’s AI services and global infrastructure.
As part of its cloud-first strategy, Philips is migrating healthcare data and applications from on-premises data centres to AWS, supporting over 34 million patient exams in the cloud.
The company managed more than 134 petabytes of data, including nearly 11 billion medical images and patient records, with plans to scale to one exabyte by 2030.
Under the partnership, Philips will deploy healthcare informatics solutions across 200 healthcare sites in Europe, North America, and Latin America, to ensure regulatory compliance.
In addition, the company is developing its integrated diagnostics portfolio on AWS, including radiology, digital pathology, and cardiology, to enhance AI-enabled workflows.
Philips has reduced infrastructure costs by up to 36% through data centre migrations and connected over 1.3 million IoT devices to the cloud.
Royal Philips chief innovation and strategy officer Shez Partovi said: “Our deepening relationship with AWS represents a significant milestone in Philips’ digital transformation journey.
“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.”
AWS AI services are helping Philips reduce administrative tasks, allowing developers to focus on improving workflow solutions and accelerating product development.
Philips is leveraging AWS HealthImaging to manage and analyse petabyte-scale imaging data, addressing the increasing demand for medical imaging due to complex diseases.
The Tasy Electronic Medical Record AI Virtual Assistant, powered by Amazon Bedrock, captures and transcribes doctor-patient conversations in real-time
It simplifies the charting process and potentially expedites patient discharge.
The Philips Future Health Index 2024 Report highlights that 99% of radiology leaders face staff shortages, with 45% experiencing burnout.
Furthermore, Philips is exploring generative AI capabilities with AWS to reduce administrative burdens in radiology, enabling clinicians to focus on critical decision-making.
AWS Solutions senior vice president Colleen Aubrey said: “For more than a century, Philips has been a leading innovator in healthcare and beyond.
“Philips has continued to be a pioneer in next-generation healthcare solutions, adopting cloud-based medical workloads and using more than 100 of AWS’s capabilities.
“AWS and Philips are enabling providers to spend more time with patients and deliver better care by putting AI and cloud computing to work.
“Together, we aim to further accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare and drive operational efficiency.”
