Philips launches healthcare innovations at Global Health 2023 in Saudi Arabia towards realizing Vision 2030

This year, Philips’ showcase at Global Health Exhibition 2023 is centered on its commitment to redesign healthcare around patients and caregivers, enabled by the latest technological innovations and purposeful partnerships.

One of the Philips innovations being launched in Saudi Arabia during Global Health is the Image Guided Therapy Philips Zenition 10 C-arm; the latest addition to the company’s highly versatile Zenition mobile C-arm series designed to expand patient access to routine surgical care and minimally invasive procedures.

The use of a C-arm offers several benefits in surgery settings. First and foremost, its images help surgeons navigate with precision as they can see the exact location of the surgical instruments, implants, or other devices they’re using - ensuring accurate procedures and reducing the risk of complications. It also allows them to confirm the successful completion of the procedure by verifying results on the spot.

Powered by Philips’ state-of-the-art flat panel detector technology, the Zenition 10 delivers distortion-free images with superb resolution and dose efficiency for performing a wide variety of surgical procedures including orthopedic, trauma, spine, pain management, peripheral vascular, abdominal, urology and general surgical procedures.

The new Zenition 10’s compact design supports fast transport, fast set-up, and fast high-quality imaging, supporting quick decision making and mitigating staff shortages by delivering the speed and efficiency needed to deal with high patient throughput - enabling surgeons to treat more patients at a lower cost.

Philips is also launching a next-generation portable ultrasound solution for the META region - the new Compact 5000 Series - to facilitate first-time-right ultrasound exams for more patients.

Premium quality ultrasound imaging has previously been confined to larger cart-based systems, which while technically portable, are typically located within a specific department. This often means that patients need to move from a hospital ward to the appropriate department for their ultrasound exams, which can negatively impact the patient experience and create logistical problems that limit patient throughput. The portability of the new Ultrasound Compact 5000 Series brings quality ultrasound to the patient wherever they are located in the hospital, with advanced features not typically found on a portable system, including AI-powered automation tools.

This newest innovative system also features Philips Collaboration Live tele-medicine software, with the ability to call on additional clinical expertise via secure voice, text, screen sharing, and video streaming from anywhere with a mobile or internet connection. Collaboration Live even allows a remote user to control the unit’s settings to acquire diagnostic quality images, reducing the need for follow-up scans and patients having to travel to a central hospital facility [1].

Designed for shared service capabilities across specialties including cardiovascular, obstetrics and gynecology, point of care, and general imaging, the Compact Ultrasound 5000 series system helps meet the needs of multiple clinical segments, while effectively tapping into the Kingdom’s advanced healthcare infrastructure.

Through ongoing landmark partnerships, Philips has assisted in creating nation-wide cardiology and radiology networks to realize world-class connected care. In the first, Philips linked cardiac centers across Saudi Arabia to provide clinicians with seamless access to specialist care and information sharing between connected healthcare facilities. Integrating these disparate cardiology systems around the Kingdom, is helping to reduce data entry, simplify access to test results generated in other departments, and making it easier to acquire, analyze and share patient data - enhancing the efficiency of the Cardiology workflow.

The second includes an AI-enabled radiology solution to optimize radiology operations and resources, while creating better experiences for health professionals, and better healthcare outcomes for patients.

Philips has also delivered the first AI-enabled Tele-ICU in the region to improve critical care. The eICU model put an intensivist-led team in a central monitoring facility where they can be responsible for remote monitoring of ICU-beds. Through the solution, connected ICUs are receiving supplementary support, in addition to the bedside teams, for a positive reduction in mortality, lengths of stay and cost of care. [2]

Philips has also co-created an AI-ecosystem and an AI Lab that incorporates education, science, and technology, supported by knowledge sharing via worldwide collaborations, with strategic local partners.

***Global Health Exhibition is taking place at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Centre (RFECC) from 29 – 31 October 2023; visit the Philips booth at H2.M30.