Philips highlights the role of impactful partnerships at Arab Health 2023 to achieve real and long-term healthcare results

With a strong focus on providing, interoperable and future-ready innovations, Philips’ technology can have a tangible, transformational impact. At Arab Health, Philips will demonstrate how its solutions can help extend care capacity, and increase clinical confidence and collaboration, all while optimizing clinical and operational efficiency, and ensuring agility and scalability for future needs.

This year at Arab Health, Philips will showcase how its innovations help make informed decision support possible for clinical teams as well as enable greater communication and collaboration. As part of this, Philips is launching its breakthrough innovation, the MR 7700 3T MRI imaging system. The MR 7700 reaches new levels of precision in both anatomical and functional imaging to support confident diagnosis for every patient. It combines neuroscience capabilities, and unsurpassed gradients, with a 35% faster scan time [6], streamlined workflow, and delivers greater patient comfort.

In addition, Philips’ acute patient management solutions offer an integrated system of advanced physiologic monitoring, a central station, and clinical decision-support tools that work together to provide the actionable insights care teams need in the moment. It allows them to gain visibility into patients’ status anytime, anywhere; notifies them of early signs of potential patient deterioration to proactively fine-tune treatment; rapidly adapt and scale patient monitoring; and collaborate during care transitions and effectively decide the optimal time to transition. Together with Philips CareEvent, alerts can be delivered - directly to the healthcare teams’ smartphones to further help make an informed response.

In today’s healthcare environment, it is essential for healthcare providers to effectively extend resources, expertise, and actionable data to wherever care is needed, especially in acute care settings—where higher risk, higher cost patients require continuous expert critical care. Philips’ virtual care solutions enable healthcare providers to extend where, when, and how care is delivered. The Philips eICU as an example, is a transformational critical care telehealth program comprising one centralized specialized critical care team, as a supplement to the bedside team, who can manage many ICU locations, in real-time. This support to increasingly scarce clinical resources has been shown to reduce mortality, lengths of stay and cost of care.

In addition, Philips is also spotlighting its digital pathology solutions which speed up collaboration between laboratories and contribute to earlier and more accurate detection and tissue assessment and a decrease in the rate of interpretation errors, especially in difficult cases. It can also save time for pathologists in administration tasks - freeing up capacity for a higher volume of patients to receive the access to care they need.

Now more than ever it is important to ease the burdens on clinical teams and ensure that hospital resources are put to their most productive use. Philips’ portfolio of integrated workflow solutions supports this aim by connecting workflows, across the radiology enterprise to help enhance the efficiency and work experience of radiologists, technologists and administrators. These include its next-generation Advanced Visualization Workspace platform with AI-enabled algorithms and workflows, as well as Philips’ AI-enabled PACS, which provides automatic analysis of medical data and extraction of relevant information to generate meaningful – and actionable – insights.

In addition, a variety of time-saving features are included across Philips’ entire portfolio including AI -driven technologies in the MR5300 with BlueSeal Magnet, automating the most complex clinical and operational tasks, resulting in patient set-up in under a minute and the reduction of change-over time between exams by up to 30% [8].

Additionally, Philips is leveraging its AI expertise with Philips SmartSpeed to deliver fast high-quality imaging for a wider range of patients, at imaging speeds nearly three times faster than parallel scanning, including for patients who are in pain or struggle to hold their breath. This reduced examination time helps support higher throughput, while the time gained through these efficiencies can be used to scan more patients and reduce the cost per scan, or even to add unplanned patients to the schedule and to reduce staff overtime.

This year, Philips debuts its Philips Optimization Zone at Arab Health 2023, that offers an exclusive opportunity to engage with its specialist service & solutions team on how to maximize the return on healthcare investments. A full team of experts is available to meet and engage with stakeholders to discuss how to get the most out of technology over the lifecycle of the solutions. Whether this calls for a managed services, expert consultancy, education or other type of partnership - Philips is using Arab Health to help healthcare providers in the region make confident investment decisions for today’s and future health.