Philips Expands Collaboration with Amazon to Enhance HealthSuite Cloud Services

The alliance intends to combine radiology, digital pathology, and cardiology diagnostic processes

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Nov 26, 2024
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  • Royal Philips is working with Amazon Web Services to improve its HealthSuite cloud services with integrated diagnostics and generative AI processes.
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Royal Philips expanded its partnership with Amazon's (AMZN, Financials) cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services to improve its HealthSuite cloud services, focusing on integrated diagnostics and generative AI processes.

The alliance seeks to move Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio—which include cardiology, digital pathology, and radiology—into the cloud. According to Philips, further cooperation with AWS will enable healthcare results to be improved, access to insights to be strengthened, and diagnosis processes to be unified. The firms want to expand these offerings from North and Latin America into Europe.

By means of a single, cloud-based platform, Philips and AWS want to simplify diagnosis procedures and let healthcare practitioners access imaging, pathology, and clinical data. Operating on AWS infrastructure, Philips' HealthSuite imaging is meant to offer remote diagnosis tools, care team communication, and simplified reporting. The system is already being used more than 150 hospital institutions across North and Latin America.

"The collaboration between Philips and AWS gives healthcare providers scalable, secure-by-design cloud-enabled solutions to accelerate healthcare innovation," AWS CEO Matt Garman said. "Combining Philips’ healthcare informatics portfolio with AWS generative AI capabilities gives clinicians access to imaging insights so they can deliver more effective and efficient care."

Using Amazon's Bedrock technology, Philips is attempting to include generative artificial intelligence into healthcare processes. Reducing administrative chores, automating repetitive operations, and freeing physician time for important decisions is the aim. Philips is also looking at conversational artificial intelligence technologies to simplify clinical reporting so radiologists may provide ordered diagnostic reports using natural language.

Commenting on Philips' idea of ambient reporting utilizing generative artificial intelligence, Edward Steiner, Chief and Medical Director of The York/WellSpan Advanced Prostate Care Center in the United States, estimated a 15-20% efficiency increase. "You simply could speak in a conversational tone and a structured report is generated within seconds," Steiner added.

At the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, scheduled for Dec. 1–4 in Chicago, Philips will present its most recent informatics products.

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