Password Magazine - Issue 28

October 2006

Medical technology – saving lives, reducing costs

Thanks in no small part to modern medicine, we now live longer and healthier lives than ever before, with the average life expectancy for men and women in many western countries already nearly eighty. However, the healthcare that gives us this longevity comes at ever-increasing financial cost. By the end of the decade it is predicted that healthcare spending will consume around 10% of world GDP – equivalent to almost 4000 billion dollars per year. We take a look at how new technologies being developed at Philips Research are set to create a win-win situation for everyone, not only improving the quality of patient care but also reducing healthcare costs.

 

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+ Medical technology – saving lives, reducing costs

 

Useful links

 

+ Remote patient management and personalized education delivered through a patient’s home television

+ Philips and BG Medicine partner in molecular medicine for early detection and monitoring of diseases (press release)

+ Philips GEMINI TF

 

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Paul Smit
Philips Medical Systems
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Henk van Houten
Philips Research
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Researcher inspecting the pharmacokinetic maps of a lung cancer patient generated with new molecular imaging tools.

 

Motiva from Philips - winner of a Medical Design Excellence Award and named one of the ‘Top 5 Disease Management Ideas of 2005’