Royal Philips, a prominent health technology company, has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. This collaboration aims to enhance Philips’ business transformation and expand its healthcare informatics solutions globally. Philips is adopting a cloud-first, AI-enabled strategy to improve patient care delivery while reducing infrastructure costs.
Shez Partovi, chief innovation & strategy officer at Royal Philips, stated, “Our deepening relationship with AWS represents a significant milestone in Philips’ digital transformation journey.” He emphasized that AWS’s AI technology and healthcare-specific services would allow Philips to innovate more rapidly and scale their digital health solutions effectively.
Philips is transitioning its healthcare data and applications from on-premises data centers to AWS’s global infrastructure. Over the past year, Philips has supported over 34 million patient exams exclusively in the cloud and managed more than 134 petabytes of data. The company plans to increase this to one exabyte by 2030. They have also expanded their healthcare informatics solutions across more than 200 customer sites worldwide.
The partnership with AWS enables Philips to reduce repetitive administrative tasks through AI-powered innovations. For instance, the Tasy Electronic Medical Record (EMR) AI Virtual Assistant helps automate documentation processes for doctors, allowing them more time for patient interaction.
According to the Philips Future Health Index 2024 Report, radiology leaders face challenges like staff shortages and burnout. To address these issues, Philips is exploring generative AI capabilities with AWS to streamline radiology workflows and reduce administrative burdens.
Colleen Aubrey, senior vice president of AWS Solutions, noted that “Philips has continued to be a pioneer in next-generation healthcare solutions,” highlighting the role of AI and cloud computing in improving patient care and operational efficiency.
Philips has been an AWS Partner since 2008 and was the first organization to launch a medical workload into production on AWS. They continue to make advancements in cloud-based medical workloads using various AWS capabilities.
