- It is very interesting to think about the fragmentation
in healthcare.
Doctors, hospitals, individual other healthcare facilities
have always worked in silos.
It's hurting our doctors, it's hurting our patients.
My own wife got very sick with breast cancer.
We were referred from doctor to doctor, to doctor.
We felt vulnerable because there was no central person
that we could talk to.
- How do we break down those silos
and create learning and clear direction?
And how do we treat patients today?
The biggest disruption in cancer care is not some new drug,
it's when we truly start combining the information
about a patient and turning that information
into true insights about what drives better health.
Philips is associated with many things
from light bulbs to radio to televisions.
It started with lighting 128 years ago
where the Philip brothers who founded the company
considered lighting to be a source of a better way to live.
And then they went on to the X-Ray.
The thinking behind the innovation has always been
how can we have a greater positive impact on people's life?
And today we fine tune that to improving people's life
through health technology.
- Philips made the choice to make that its single purpose
to improve 3 billion lives by 2030.
That is a big, big, big goal.
We're not cancer specialists,
Dana-Farber in Boston is one of the best cancer centers
in the world that basically have most of the knowledge,
but can we help codify that knowledge?
- I always think about it in the old days.
You go to a hospital and at the end of the bed
you have this big chart and you leaf through the chart
you see all these pages of documentation.
Sometimes the information's there sometimes it's not.
- The solution that we developed in Philips
is called HealthSuite System of Engagement.
It is an AWS cloud based solution
built on data sources that are present in the hospital.
That can be the imaging department,
that can be the electronic medical record,
that can be the laboratory department,
the pathology genomics.
All of this information is put into HealthSuite System
of Engagement and integrated
in a way that provides a complete
and integrated view on a patient.
- One of the complicated things in cancer care
is that it's very hard to move quickly.
I think the driving need that AWS and Philips has been able
to solve for Dana-Farber is portability, ingenuity,
innovation in cancer care and being nimble.
Philips built this beautiful robust data model
that really lets us measure and learn,
not just how clinicians make decisions
but what's happening to a patient.
- (in unison) Hi, how are you?
- Everything is good.
- Yes everything is great.
- Outstanding
Access to data is very difficult in hospitals
because there were so many different systems out there.
In HealthSuite, we bring it all together
and we use that to create the best pathway for you.
- There's a medication that's specifically looking
at this specific mutation.
- The Philips oncology pathways is a example
of how we do that.
Every individual patient gets an individual diagnostic
and therapeutic plan that is completely aligned
with this individual's background,
genetic background, social background
clinical background, personal preferences...
- We mapped out the complete pathway that the patient goes
through from the moment she feels the first symptoms
of disease until the end of her follow-up.
- We wanted a GPS map, a guide for oncologists.
And to do that, you had to build out the roadmap
of all of the different possibilities.
So pathways is a lot like a GPS navigation app,
in that it helps to provide you direction.
Much in the way that you might want to avoid tolls
or avoid a highway.
Maybe if you're a patient, you don't wanna lose your hair.
The pathway can adjust for specific preferences
and point you in the right direction
for the best treatment option available for you.
It takes into account all the unique features
about an individual patient.
For example, what stage is your cancer?
What's your genomic makeup?
What's in your DNA?
It also incorporates all of the data
for how patients have been treated.
And we use that information to determine a new direction
that we should go in.
- We know where we wanna go.
We wanna get to cure,
we wanna get to improve survival.
We wanna get to improved quality of life.
And so pathways is trying to be the GPS that gets us there.
- AWS is the backend infrastructure.
AWS provides the way for us
to host our solutions in the cloud.
- You can really feel more confident about the path
that as a patient you're taking,
because the technology under the hood
is helping you make that judgment call much better.
- Any pain?
- Nope
- My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer
and died within 10 months.
- My father was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer
and he died in eight months.
The experience I witnessed them going through was horrible.
They were so sick.
There was no quality of life.
With the scan in April, are we still hoping for no growth?
I honestly don't know that they would have had the type
of treatment they had,
if they realized how ill they were going to be.
- Kim had earlier had a breast cancer
and had been cured of that
was doing great until more recently,
when she was found to have a lung mass.
- You had had a non-small cell lung cancer,
and it was localized that is it wasn't recurrent,
it wasn't metastatic.
- I expected to have breast cancer because of my mom.
My lung cancer was a little more surprising.
- You've already completed the chemo radiation portion.
So now we move to step two.
- I think it's important to me to feel in control of my care
because I felt so helpless watching my parents.
After all of the testing was run,
before I even made a decision, I was given choices.
I feel like I'm in the driver's seat of my treatment
and my life.
Perfect.
- One hour.
One hour. Thank you
- There's a lot that's unknown,
but this is the data as we know it as of today
- With pathways, One of our goals is to learn
from every patient and capturing data
in a way that allows us to learn from them in the aggregate.
- We're taking data and we're democratizing
how we treat patients.
- It's been very easy so far. So that's,
- Outstanding
- I know
- I feel very fortunate that Dana-Farber is in my backyard.
Every single time I'm here,
there are people here with suitcases.
They're here for the treatment that is offered.
I really wish that this type of medical care were available
to people wherever they live.
- 85% of all diagnosis and treatment of cancer is done
in local or regional hospitals
that are not necessarily specialists in cancer care.
Now, what if we can bring the best of cancer care
to all these hospitals that are treating these patients
every day
- By partnering with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
together with AWS,
we can make these top notch guidelines available
far beyond the Boston area.
Moving to the cloud was a bold move for Phillips.
And while it might seem very logical,
it was a very bold move.
Given the fact that the healthcare ecosystem
is a traditional system with a lot of privacy issues,
a lot of security issues.
- Security is super important in healthcare
because nobody wants their health data
to be leaked and known.
- I would only do this, if I could work with
a very trustworthy partner.
- AWS is the basis and takes care of hosting, storage,
security, privacy needs that we have.
And we add on top of that a layer
to make it really health specific.
Having cloud technology,
having it seamlessly available
having it scalable across the globe,
that is what will make this tick in the end.
- We believe we're disrupting healthcare
by bringing together the right information, the right tools,
to make the right decisions for patients, guide patients
and have providers really do what they signed up for,
taking care of those patients.
- So you know where you're headed.
- I know where I'm headed.