Dutch - Businessman | April 26, 1960 -
If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
Frans van Houten
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Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information.
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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.
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In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses a year that can be taught in a classroom.
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Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.
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Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
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Philips is committed to the circular economy and is applying its principles throughout the organization. We are redesigning our products and looking at ways to capture their residual value.
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Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times.
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Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.
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Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.
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Healthcare is a conservative marketplace.
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Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
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