Philips has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider to increase innovation and improve patient outcomes.
Takeaway Points
- Philips has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider.
- The aim is to improve patient outcomes.
- Royal Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation.
Philips Preferred Cloud Provider
Amazon Web Services, Inc., said on Wednesday that Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to boost its business transformation and deliver secure and innovative healthcare informatics solutions globally. Philips’ cloud-first, AI-enabled approach is improving the company’s ability to deliver better care for more people, providing faster product development and reduced infrastructure costs.
Shez Partovi, chief innovation & strategy officer at Royal Philips, remarked, “Our deepening relationship with AWS represents a significant milestone in Philips’ digital transformation journey. By harnessing the power of AWS’s AI technology and healthcare-specific services, we can more rapidly innovate and scale our digital health solutions, ultimately helping healthcare providers deliver better patient outcomes and experiences while reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.”
Colleen Aubrey, senior vice president of AWS Solutions, commented, “For more than a century, Philips has been a leading innovator in healthcare and beyond. Philips has continued to be a pioneer in next-generation healthcare solutions, adopting cloud-based medical workloads and using more than 100 of AWS’s capabilities. AWS and Philips are enabling providers to spend more time with patients and deliver better care by putting AI and cloud computing to work. Together, we aim to further accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare and drive operational efficiency.”
When did the partnership start?
According to the report, Philips has been an AWS Partner since 2008, and was the first organization to launch a medical workload into production on AWS, and was a launch customer of AWS HealthImaging, AWS Outposts, AWS IoT secure tunneling, and AWS Snowball Edge.
Philips has also made select informatics solutions, including Radiology Operations Command Center (ROCC) and HealthSuite Imaging (HSI), available in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital storefront that helps companies find, try, buy, deploy, and manage solutions from AWS Partners, AWS said.
About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 114 Availability Zones within 36 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Philips’ patient- and people-centric innovation leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver personal health solutions for consumers and professional health solutions for healthcare providers and their patients in the hospital and the home.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, ultrasound, image-guided therapy, monitoring and enterprise informatics, as well as in personal health. Philips generated 2024 sales of EUR 18 billion and employs approximately 67,800 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries.
