Philips To Create More Context, Connectedness And Continuity And Shift Sick Care To Health Care

Medtech Insight met with senior executives from Philips' Connected Care and Health Informatics business, including the division's CEO Jeroen Tas, at the recent UK digital health event EHI Live to find out more about the company's vision to realizing a digitally-enabled, connected health care system, where it is in its journey to achieving this and what further obstacles lie ahead.

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Connected Care and Health Informatics (CCHI) may be Philips' smallest business division in terms of revenue contribution, but the role that it has set itself to play in the future of health care is far greater than the sum of its parts.

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