The collaboration offers Philips’ integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud. That includes radiology, digital pathology, cardiology and AI advanced visualization solutions. Philips and AWS aim to unify diagnostic workflows, improving access to critical insights and driving better outcomes across clinical specialties.
“The collaboration between Philips and AWS gives healthcare providers scalable, secure-by-design cloud-enabled solutions to accelerate healthcare innovation,” said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. “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 to patients anywhere, anytime, with best-in-class security and privacy.”
In April 2023, the two teamed up to develop generative AI applications. The partnership centered around Philips’ imaging archiving and communications system. Then, in March of this year, they expanded their partnership based around digital pathology in the cloud.
According to a news release, the company already successfully transitioned more than 150 sites in North America and Latin America to its HealthSuite Imaging on AWS and continues to build on the collaboration, accelerating the migration of health systems to the cloud. The company also plans to expand to include customer cloud migrations in Europe.
Philips said it aims to create robust, scalable generative AI applications leveraging state-of-the-art foundation models from Amazon Bedrock. It wants to seamlessly integrate them into clinical workflows, reducing administrative burdens and time-consuming, repetitive tasks.
“Philips’ cloud-based healthcare informatics solutions allow us to drive better outcomes across clinical disciplines, including radiology, digital pathology and cardiology. We’re working closely with clinicians to ensure workflows become more efficient and give back valuable time to healthcare providers,” said Roy Jakobs, CEO of Royal Philips. “Collaborating with AWS helps us to innovate faster and deliver better care for more people.”
