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" 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
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" Healthcare is a conservative marketplace. "
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" Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications. "
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Home
" Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported by tele-health care and coaching. "
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" When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice. "
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" I remain convinced of the compelling case for connected care. "
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" Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough. "
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" The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum of care - from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to monitoring and aftercare. "
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Comfort
Light
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Government
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" 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. "
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