More APAC leaders to invest in genAI: report
Asia-Pacific will see increased investment in generative AI technology over the coming years.
In the ninth edition of Royal Philips' Future Health Index report, over six in 10 APAC leaders polled said they plan to invest in genAI in the next three years. At present, almost 40% of them have already invested in the technology.
While there is great...
Royal Philips made several announcements at RSNA23 in Chicago yesterday, including the release of its next-generation AI-enabled advanced visualization workspace, its AI Manager and the BlueSeal MR Mobile Unit.
The company's visualization workspace for health systems is an AI-powered offering aimed at improving workflows using a single platform for multiple modalities. The company said it helps...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Philips.
Royal Philips received an additional $44.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing its total received to $60 million, to support the global deployment of the tech giant's AI-enabled, FDA-cleared Lumify Ultrasound System.
In 2021, Philips received an initial grant of $15.4 million from the Gates...
Med tech giant Royal Philips is partnering with Nuvo Group to support remote pregnancy monitoring in rural areas.
The collaboration will start with a pilot program in rural Colorado using Nuvo's INVU remote monitoring system, which was cleared by the FDA last year. The companies say the program could improve access to maternity care in rural communities, where a lack of options contributes to...
Med tech giant Royal Philips is rolling out a new at-home ECG system for decentralized clinical trial use. The company is pitching this new technology as a way for clinical trial participants to record ECG data without traveling to a clinical site or requiring an in-home clinician.
Trial participants wear a PCA 500 ECG body patch with a 12-lead ECG, which can securely transmit data in "near real...
Dutch health tech giant Royal Philips has scored FDA 510(k) clearance for its IntelliVue MX750 and MX850 patient monitors.
The monitors, which received an FDA emergency use authorization in 2020 and were cleared in Europe with a CE mark in 2019, are designed to support clinical decisions, manage a patient’s condition and needs, and improve infection control within a hospital setting.
WHY IT...
Dutch health tech company Royal Philips today introduced its new enterprise-wide digital pathology platform called IntelliSite.
The product features a suite of scalable software tools designed to streamline workflows, enhance diagnostic confidence, facilitate collaboration, integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and increase the efficiency of pathology labs, Philips said in its announcement....
Health tech giant Royal Philips is launching a set of tools to help children prepare for MRI scans, keeping them calm and avoiding the need for sedation.
Before the scan, pediatric patients can tap into the mobile app that gamifies the experience of undergoing an MRI. The app lets kids role-play getting an MRI with a virtual friend, so the child can be the operator encouraging the buddy to lie...
US-based healthcare IT firms Royal Philips and Teladoc Health have joined hands to deliver virtual care solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The two global healthcare IT firms will combine their virtual care offerings to offer hospitals and health systems a scalable end-to-end virtual care service that allows them to conduct remote patient monitoring across health facilities...
This week at HIMSS21, Dutch health tech company Royal Philips added two new products to its HealthSuite, including one focused on patient flow capacity and a second zeroing in on the acute care telehealth space.
“I think this is a time in which there has been probably no more clear view on the needs, as well as the opportunity, for how IT and how informatics can help change healthcare delivery...
