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One of the cloud’s defining characteristics is its elasticity – its ability to dynamically expand storage and computing power to meet the instantaneous requirements of an application. Another is its ability to support ecosystems of connected devices and services that collect, aggregate, securely store and analyze data using advanced technologies such as AI and machine learning. The fast-changing time-critical scenarios encountered in healthcare and the pressing need to deliver better healthcare to more people at lower cost, make the cloud one of the most significant developments in healthcare for a decade.
‘There are three good reasons why healthcare and life science researchers are migrating their workload to the cloud in ever-increasing numbers,’ said Dale Wiggins, General Manager Philips HealthSuite digital platform “First of all, we need to break down silos to make healthcare a connected patient journey. Second, we need to enable personalized care and deliver it to larger populations, and finally there is a huge opportunity to maximizing the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and data for evidence-based medical decision-making and lifestyle choices.’
What separates Philips’ HealthSuite digital platform from other health cloud platforms is its ‘pure-play’ approach – a concerted focus on delivering better healthcare to more people at lower cost on the health system side, and on empowering people to take better care of their health on the consumer side. Uniquely, it bridges these two domains to build up a holistic picture of individual health, maintaining the same level of privacy and security on the consumer side that people have come to expect for their medical records.
More information about the Philips Healthsuite digital platform including access to the Forrester Wave report.