Philips, AWS Broaden Strategic AI Partnership

Philips has expanded its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Philips’ integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud. This includes radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and artificial intelligence (AI) advanced visualization solutions.

Philips has already transitioned over 150 sites in North America and Latin America to its HealthSuite Imaging on AWS. Philips is building on its collaboration with AWS to boost migration of health systems to the cloud, and will expand to include customer cloud migrations in Europe.

The company’s cloud-based solutions will provide a unified view of patient data from diagnostic sources including radiology images, digital pathology slides, and other clinical records. Clinicians will also have remote access to diagnostic, reporting, and workflow orchestration tools.

Philips hopes to create robust, scalable generative AI applications that leverage Amazon Bedrock foundation models. These AI applications have the potential to reduce administrative burdens and time-consuming repetitive tasks.

In March, Philips and AWS announced they had broadened their partnership to address the growing need for secure digital pathology solutions in the cloud.

“The collaboration between Philips and AWS gives healthcare providers scalable, secure-by-design cloud-enabled solutions to accelerate healthcare innovation,” said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. “Combining Philips’ healthcare informatics portfolio with AWS generative AI capabilities gives clinicians access to imaging insights so they can deliver more effective and efficient care to patients anywhere, anytime, with best-in-class security and privacy.”

The company is exploring generative AI through conversational reporting. Clinicians can use conversational language to convert findings into structured reports for review. This can help construct and revise reports in real-time, add diagnostic impressions, and flag possible inconsistencies.

Generative AI could reduce report editing time while maintaining high quality by integrating patient histories and clinical context into the final diagnostic report, Philips said.

“Philips’ cloud-based healthcare informatics solutions allow us to drive better outcomes across clinical disciplines, including radiology, digital pathology and cardiology. We’re working closely with clinicians to ensure workflows become more efficient and give back valuable time to healthcare providers,” said Roy Jakobs, CEO of Royal Philips. “Collaborating with AWS helps us to innovate faster and deliver better care for more people.”