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All Quotes by author - Frans van Houten
" 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. "
Problems
Dark
Way
" A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough. "
Help
Approach
Enough
" As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care. "
Care
Still
Someone
" At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs. "
Core
Work
You
" By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health. "
Health
Change
Future
" Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters. "
Technology
Us
Work
" Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys. "
Changing
Luxury
Happen
" 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. "
Water
Growth
Innovation
" Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer. "
Responsibility
Compassion
Together
" Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears. "
Care
Expectations
Resistance
" 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. "
Colleagues
Medical
World
" Employers can assist employees in looking after their health by giving guidance on energy management, sleep and healthy eating, working relationships, and helping maintain a sense of purpose at work. "
Work
Sleep
Purpose
" 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. "
Rules
Thinking
People
" Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity. "
Innovation
Live
Focus
" First and foremost, we must take a more holistic view of patient care journeys and then better integrate workflows and technology so that the care experience is seamless and provided at the location where it makes most sense. "
Care
Technology
More
" Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction. "
Up
Deep
Intelligence
" Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times. "
Innovation
Government
Environment
" 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. "
People
Support
Innovation
" Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully. "
Path
Great
Courage
" Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes. "
Pressure
Like
Growing
" Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new ways to deliver healthcare... and that means consumerism is going to play a bigger role. "
New
Brand
Care
" 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. "
Health
Change
Hospital
" 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. "
Care
Service
Living
" Healthcare is a conservative marketplace. "
Conservative
Marketplace
Healthcare
" Healthy people are not very motivated to manage their health. They just don't care. "
Care
Health
People
" How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time? "
Treat
Healthy
Sick
" I am pleased with the response of investors towards Philips Lighting and the successful pricing of the I.P.O. This strategic milestone will allow Royal Philips to focus on the fast-growing health technology market. "
Technology
Royal
Focus
" I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for a structural solution. "
Business
Challenges
Performance
" 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. "
Technology
More
Us
" If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes. "
Key
Help
Health
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