Healthcare Business Highlights

 
Steve Rusckowski

Executive Vice-President and CEO of Philips Healthcare

 
 
Key Business Areas

  • Imaging Systems
  • Home Healthcare Solutions
  • Clinical Care Systems
  • Healthcare Informatics
  • Customer Services
 

Our Healthcare sector is dedicated to providing solutions designed around the needs to our customers and patients. We believe we can make a difference by removing boundaries in healthcare with our innovative and affordable technology solutions throughout the entire care cycle.

People Focused

At Philips Healthcare, we combine our unique clinical expertise with human insights to develop solutions that deliver value throughout the care cycle: from disease prevention to screening and diagnosis, through to treatment, monitoring and health management – wherever care is given: in the hospital or at home.

 

People focused healthcare means learning what it is like to be a patient, as well as understanding the complexities facing the care givers. Through these insights, we aim to develop more intuitive, affordable and better technology solutions, to help take some of the complexity out of healthcare. That is healthcare simplified.

 

With growing presence in cardiology, oncology, and women’s health, we focus on the fundamental health problems with which people are confronted, such as congestive heart failure, lung and breast cancers, and coronary artery disease.

 
Vision 2010 Ambition

We deliver shareholder value by focusing on the people in the care cycle – patients and care providers. Through combining human insights and clinical expertise, we aim to improve patient outcomes while lowering the burden on the healthcare system.

 
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Reduced stress during diagnosis

Ambient Experience leverages the capabilities of Philips Healthcare, Design and Lighting to help the patients feel more comfortable physically and emotionally during medical examinations with MR and CT scans. This year, Philips celebrated the 50th installation of the Ambient Experience in the US.

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Home Healthcare Solutions

Philips Respironics OptiLife is designed to be easier for patients to use. With features like advanced flexible mask tubing - at the critical point where the tubing meets the mask – it creates an optimal seal in any sleep position.

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Patient Monitoring

The SureSigns VM3 vital signs monitor, launched in India, is the first patient monitor designed to meet the needs of clinicians and patients in emerging markets.

Healthcare Trends

- Global population is increasing and continues to age


- People are living longer with chronic diseases


- Healthcare costs are becoming unsustainable (especially in mature economies)


- Healthcare at home is an increasingly viable and cost-effective complement to in-hospital care


- People are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of lifestyle on health