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" 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. "

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" The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change. "

Frans van Houten

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Society

People

" Healthcare is a conservative marketplace. "

" The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services. "

" Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer. "

" There's much unlocked potential in Philips. "

" A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough. "

" When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier. "

" 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. "

" If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present. "

Frans van Houten

You

Healthy

" We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused. "

" By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions. "

" We have transformed Philips into a focused leader in health technology, delivering innovation to help people manage their health. "

" We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia. "

" Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Technology

" 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. "

" I remain convinced of the compelling case for connected care. "

" Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose. "

" 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. "

" We typically sell a catheter lab to a hospital, and it sits there for the next 10 years, and we don't visit the cardiologist on a daily basis. Volcano have a disposable business. They are in the cath lab on a daily basis. "

" It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace. "

" 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. "