Royal Philips’ ninth annual Future Health Index global report reveals a growing acceptance by clinicians and health care stakeholders of virtual care and AI-enabled innovation. These tools can address workforce shortages, financial burdens and growing demand for care, said chief innovation and strategy officer Shez Partovi.

This week, Philips Respironics reached a $1.1b settlement affecting CPAP and other breathing devices. Toku announced it received US FDA breakthrough device designation for its MyKidneyAI technology. This May, the FDA will hold its REdI conference focusing on innovation in medical product development and hold another townhall focusing on considerations for selecting a sterilization modality.

Philips CEO Roy Jakobs talks to Medtech Insight about the medtech firm’s decade-long history of embedding AI into its products and what he expects from the newly released draft framework by the National Academy of Medicine, which he helped develop as co-chair of the Steering Committee.

Royal Philips’ head of Enterprise Informatics Shez Partovi explains the rationale behind the 2023 decision to set up a vertical business for digital, AI and software applications, to operate alongside imaging, monitoring and interventional therapy.