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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. "
Frans van Houten
Innovation
Government
Environment
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" 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. "
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" I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic. "
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" 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. "
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" There's much unlocked potential in Philips. "
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Unlocked
Potential
Much
" 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. "
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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
Change
Society
People
" Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with. "
Frans van Houten
Mental
Mental Health
Problem
" What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country. "
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Over
India
Country
" 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
Health Care
Care
Future
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Problems
Dark
Way
" You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself. "
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Dead
Need
Today
" Healthcare is a conservative marketplace. "
Frans van Houten
Conservative
Marketplace
Healthcare
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
HIV
Taught
Treat
" We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV. "
Frans van Houten
Television
Started
People
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Work
Sleep
Purpose
" The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software. "
Frans van Houten
Software
Improve
Done
" Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals. "
Frans van Houten
Strategy
Our
Focused
" We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification. "
Frans van Houten
Change
Culture
Focus
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Colleagues
Medical
World
" With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing. "
Frans van Houten
Coaching
Support
Professional
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Path
Great
Courage
" Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction. "
Frans van Houten
Up
Deep
Intelligence
" The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky. "
Frans van Houten
More
Become
Relationship
" By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health. "
Frans van Houten
Health
Change
Future
" 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. "
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Care
Technology
More
" 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. "
Frans van Houten
Wall
Throw
Think
" How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time? "
Frans van Houten
Treat
Healthy
Sick
" We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs. "
Frans van Houten
Only
World
Wherever
" 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. "
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Care
Service
Living