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" Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications. "

Frans van Houten

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is. "

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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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" 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. "

Frans van Houten

" 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. "

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" Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital. "

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" Time may not be on our side, but innovation is. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough. "

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" To become the global leader in HealthTech and shape the future of the industry, we will combine our vibrant Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle businesses into one company. "

Frans van Houten

" When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs. "

Frans van Houten

" We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over the European region. Or - and this is my preferred choice - we team up together and are the strong region that we want to be, using each others' strengths and building on our commonalities to become the smartest region in the world. "

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

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

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" We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers. "

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" Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention. "

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

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" The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky. "

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

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