Peron says Philips is about 130 years old and shifted fully into healthcare over the last few decades.
“it's indeed a company that has 130 years and has been in many areas. But, uh, in the last few decades, Philips shift into healthcare fully.”
Person
Carla Goulart Peron
1 episodes · 18 quoted claims
Philips's healthcare business covers diagnostic imaging (x-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound) and interventional therapy in cath labs.
“We start with the imaging, so the diagnostic area, x-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and then we go into the interventional therapy into the cath labs.”
Peron worked in Brazil's public health sector in the mornings, where healthcare workers and technology were scarce.
“In the morning, I was working in the public sector in Brazil, where scarcity of healthcare workers, technology, information sometimes is very much present.”
Peron describes Brazil's public healthcare system as universal, meaning everybody has access.
“But it's a universal healthcare, which means everybody has access to.”
Peron says that in public-sector practice she sometimes had to transfer patients to another facility by ambulance to get an ultrasound image captured.
“I would need to transfer that patient sometimes to another facility, which means call an ambulance, be stuck in traffic, just to get the image capture”
Philips SmartHeart is an AI-driven one-click tool that plans the setup for cardiac MRI imaging.
“Smart heart is an AI-driven, one-click automation that plans all setups that drives how the cardiac imaging needs to be captured.”
Peron says SmartHeart can reduce cardiac MRI planning time from about fifteen minutes to thirty seconds.
“for the operator that is actually doing multiple exams in different parts of the body with different indications, that can be from fifteen minutes to thirty seconds.”
Peron says a core part of her job is making sure Philips's engineering ideas meet regulatory requirements by proving they are safe and effective.
“Ensuring that the ideas that our engineers are developing in partnership with hospitals and physicians are going to meet the requirements of the regulation because we need to prove that it's safe and it's effective, right?”
Peron says Philips plans to launch a new version of the Future Health Index assessment later in the year.
“we are going to be launching a new version of the assessment a little later this year.”
Peron says cardiac disease has the highest mortality among women, yet women wait much longer for a diagnosis.
“Cardiac cases are the highest mortality rate present in female. Despite that, female have a much longer waiting time until to get diagnostic”
Peron says most cardiac protocols were designed from studies that included only men.
“most of the protocols that have been designed have been designed based on studies that included only male.”
Peron says the heart sits slightly differently in a woman's chest than a man's, which can affect how MRI images are captured.
“the position of the heart is slightly different in the women's chest compared with the men's chest.”
Peron recounts being told at a World Economic Forum discussion that a standard defined a specific postpartum blood-loss threshold as normal.
“there is a standard that defines that five milliliters of blood loss is normal.”
Peron says the blood-loss standard was developed from nine women in Germany and then used worldwide.
“that standard was developed based on nine female in Germany and exploited and used in the entire planet.”
Peron says data analysis established that the relevant blood-loss threshold in India should be 300 milliliters.
“they quickly were able to iterate that with data points and kind of creating good correlation and establish that in India, that number should be 300 milliliters.”
Peron is an obstetrician-gynecologist with more than twenty years of clinical practice.
“I'm OBGYN. I have more than twenty years of clinical practice”
Peron says reimbursement systems limit AI adoption because coverage codes and incentives may not reward things like shorter hospital stays.
“We are still restricted by the reimbursement systems. What kind of code coverage do we have? What is the incentive?”
Peron argues that current regulation will need to evolve to fit AI-enabled health care.
“The type of regulation that brought us here is not going to take us to the future, because the future is very different than the one we are playing today.”