Phillips partners with Amazon to host EI offering, advance AI tools
Royal Philips has partnered with Amazon Web Services to host its Philips HealthSuite Imaging, and the company will leverage Amazon to build out AI applications to support clinicians.
According to Philips, the partnership with AWS broadens its capabilities for enterprise informatics, as well as enabling improved image access speeds, reliability and data orchestration for radiologists and clinicians across the entire imaging workflow. Amazon will also help Philips accelerate AI in healthcare by applying its new AI service, Amazon Bedrock, which allows users to build out AI tools.
The AI applications will help clinicians with clinical support decisions, enable more accurate diagnoses and automate administrative tasks. With HealthSuite Imaging on AWS, Philips expects its clinicians will be able to access innovations from any location, while reducing costs that were previously invested through on-premises hardware or data centers to host their image management platform.
“With healthcare systems under increasing pressure, the focus of clinicians’ has shifted from technical specifications towards more efficient workflows that lead to accurate diagnoses – and that’s what we are delivering here,” Shez Partovi, chief innovation and strategy officer and business leader enterprise informatics at Philips, said in a statement. “By shifting from on-premises to the cloud, we can leverage the security, reliability, and unmatched breadth and depth of AWS to support healthcare organizations in their mission to deliver high quality care while easing the burden on their staff.”
Through Amazon Bedrock, Philips will develop generative AI applications to advance PACS image processing and simplify workflows and voice processing. Plus, Philips will develop machine learning-based applications quickly and reduce model building costs.
“Healthcare organizations are looking for ways to decrease operational costs, improve health data interoperability, and enable data-driven decision making for clinicians to improve access to quality patient-centered care,” Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning at AWS, said in a statement. “Through democratizing access to generative AI and applying FMs to help support clinical decision-making, increase diagnostic accuracy, and automate administrative tasks, AWS will continue to support Philips as they uncover new ways to simplify radiologists’ workflow and reduce cognitive burden and clinician burnout.”
Amy joined TriMed Media as a Senior Writer for HealthExec after covering home care for three years. When not writing about all things healthcare, she fulfills her lifelong dream of becoming a pirate by sailing in regattas and enjoying rum. Fun fact: she sailed 333 miles across Lake Michigan in the Chicago Yacht Club "Race to Mackinac."