WATCH: Philips CEO Roy Jakobs with CNBC-TV18 at the India AI Summit 2026: accelerating AI to close the healthcare gap between growing patient demand and limited healthcare capacity

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, live from Bharat Mandapam and hosted by CNBC-TV18 in collaboration with Qualcomm, Philips highlighted how AI is no longer optional for healthcare: it is essential to closing the widening gap between growing patient demand and limited healthcare capacity.

With increasing waiting lists, rising costs and shortages of doctors, nurses and technicians, healthcare systems must find new ways to deliver more care with fewer resources. AI is already helping to reduce administrative burden, accelerate scans and procedures, and support earlier detection of serious conditions – enabling clinicians to spend more meaningful time with patients.

At Philips, AI is embedded within a broader platform strategy that connects hardware, software, data and human intelligence. AI alone does not determine success. In healthcare, value is created where trusted data, established workflows and clinical systems already exist.

Watch the full interview from the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to learn how Philips is leveraging AI and platform-based innovation to transform healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes worldwide.