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Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.
Frans van Houten
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Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported by tele-health care and coaching.
Frans van Houten
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I've always flagged that it will take some time to gradually sell down our interest in lighting and basically pivot to be a medtech company focused entirely on health technology.
Frans van Houten
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Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
Frans van Houten
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The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
Frans van Houten
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The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky.
Frans van Houten
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We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.
Frans van Houten
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What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.
Frans van Houten
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Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.
Frans van Houten
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Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change.
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If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
Frans van Houten
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Thanks to the digital and big data revolution, we can start to do what was previously unthinkable - to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs while delivering personalized care to each individual.
Frans van Houten
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When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
Frans van Houten
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Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.
Frans van Houten
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Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.
Frans van Houten
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With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing.
Frans van Houten
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City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.
Frans van Houten
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Sustainable solutions based on innovation can create a more resilient world only if that innovation is focused on the health and well-being of its inhabitants. And it is at that point - where technology and human needs intersect - that we will find meaningful innovation.
Frans van Houten
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Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.
Frans van Houten
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Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
Frans van Houten
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Philips is uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management by leveraging big data and delivering care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, minimally invasive treatment, recovery, and home care.
Frans van Houten
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In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other.
Frans van Houten
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The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.
Frans van Houten
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As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.
Frans van Houten
