How Shez Partovi Is Driving Patient-Centered Innovation and AI Strategy at Philips
Description
“Great innovations are painkillers, not vitamins.”
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips, a €18B global health technology leader. Shez shares how Philips is building people- and patient-centric innovation by partnering with healthcare providers, co-creating solutions, and scaling software and AI-driven insights to meet the growing demands of modern care delivery.
A former AWS health exec and practicing neuroradiologist, Shez offers a unique lens on the convergence of tech and clinical practice. He outlines how Philips’ software-first strategy is accelerating productivity, reducing clinician burnout, and expanding access to care while also navigating AI trust gaps and reshaping internal engineering practices.
Key themes include:
- The strategy behind Philips’ health tech transformation
- AI’s role in automation, augmentation, and agility in care delivery
- Co-creation with health systems to drive scalable impact
- Philips’ dual-speed innovation model (80% business-led, 20% moonshots)
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