Royal Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving
people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from
healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips
leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver
integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader
in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health
informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health
technology portfolio generated 2017 sales of EUR 17.8 billion and employs
approximately 74,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100
countries.
China is the 2nd largest market as well as a “Home Market” like the
Netherlands for Philips, which brought its products to China as early as in the
1920s and formed its initial joint venture in China in 1985. As a leading
multinational company headquartered in Shanghai, Philips now operates in over
600 cities. In China, Philips employs over 7,500 people focused on
HealthTech.
Philips is focused on the exciting opportunities in the area of health
technology. We leverage advanced technology, deep clinical and consumer insights
to driver the convergence of professional healthcare and consumer end-markets.
By sharpening its focus on five strategic priorities: Personal Health,
Definitive Diagnosis, Guided Therapy, Connected Care, and Health Informatics and
Consulting Services, Philips strives to connect the health continuum through its
HealthSutie digital platform, with a focus on four health spaces—Cardiology,
Oncology, Respiratory, and Fertility, Pregnancy and Parenting (FPP), while
partnering to deliver innovative integrated solutions to enable better health
and better care at lower costs.
In healthy living and prevention, we have market-leading propositions that
help people live healthier and better manage their health to prevent diseases,
such as propositions that help people to cook healthy food, breathe clean air,
maintain oral health, and enable better personal and home care. Against the
backdrop of the company’s new strategy, Philips is accelerating connected
innovation around the theme of “health” to help users better manage their
health. New connected products introduced by new generation smart Air Purifier,
Orlando Bluetooth Toothbrush, SoniCare FlexCare Platinum Connected Toothbrush,
SoniCare BreatheRx and FaceSmart.
In diagnosis and treatment, we focus on definitive diagnosis and guided
therapy by developing and integrating diagnostic methods to enable
first-time-right diagnosis, pathway selection, while increasing the precision
and application of minimally invasive interventions through real-time guidance.
Currently, Philips offers diagnostic and treatment solutions and services such
as ultrasound, diagnostic imaging, interventional therapy, patient care and
monitoring, and health informatics solutions & services. In addition to
advanced imaging systems, Philips also leverages its clinical expertise to
develop software management systems based on the needs of different parts of
clinical pathways, such as IntelliSpace Portal that enables image integration
across modalities as well as Cardiovascular Data Repository and enterprise-wide
patient monitoring solutions.
In home care, Philips possesses advanced wearable and mobile devices. By
connecting hospitals with homes through connected devices, data and remote
services, we can help healthcare professionals and patients improve post-acute
health management to improve the quality of patients’ lives by enabling them to
live on their own. For example, we offer post-acute management solutions for
cardiovascular and stroke patients; home care solutions for COPD patients
(BreatheMapper); and sleep care solutions for OSA patients (Dream Family).