AWS re:Invent 2025 - Transforming Integrated Diagnostics: Philips' AI Journey with AWS (IND219)

Transforming Integrated Diagnostics: Philips' AI Journey with AWS

Integrated Diagnostics: Bridging Data Silos for Better Patient Outcomes

• Healthcare faces challenges like rising costs, aging populations, and complex disease states that strain the system
• Disparate data silos created by the shift from paper to electronic medical records hinder access to critical patient information
• Integrating data across modalities (radiology, pathology, cardiology, etc.) is key to enabling precision medicine and improving clinical decision-making

Philips and AWS: A Longstanding Partnership for Cloud-Powered Healthcare

• Philips and AWS have partnered for nearly two decades to drive innovation in healthcare informatics
• In 2014-2015, Philips was the first to launch production medical workloads in the cloud
• Over the past 3 years, Philips has aggressively migrated its entire healthcare informatics portfolio to the cloud

The Power of Integrated Diagnostics

• Integrated diagnostics enables a unified, patient-centric view of data from multiple modalities (radiology, pathology, cardiology, etc.)
• This allows clinicians to make more informed decisions and have more meaningful discussions with patients about treatment plans
• Key benefits include:
  • Streamlined workflows by accessing data from a single pane of glass
  • Automated data integration and harmonization across systems
  • Ability to develop multi-modal AI models for improved diagnosis and prognosis

Philips Enterprise Pathology Solution: Digitizing the Pathology Workflow

• Pathology is a critical component of integrated diagnostics, providing the "ground truth" for cancer diagnosis and staging
• Philips' enterprise pathology solution digitizes the entire pathology workflow:
  • High-performance scanners digitize pathology slides in under 1 minute
  • Automated quality control, measurements, and pre-diagnosis using AI
  • Cloud-based storage and management of gigapixel whole slide images
  • Zero-footprint, web-based viewer for real-time collaboration between pathologists

AWS Health Imaging: Powering Philips' Pathology Solution

• AWS Health Imaging is a managed service that provides a scalable, standards-based platform for storing, managing, and accessing medical imaging data
• Key capabilities:
  • Automatic organization and normalization of DICOM metadata
  • Rapid retrieval of specific image frames (e.g. pathology tiles) in under 200ms
  • Tiered storage management to balance performance and cost
  • Seamless integration with other AWS services for advanced analytics and AI

Business Impact and Outcomes

• 100% of surveyed pathologists do not want to go back to using a microscope after experiencing digital pathology
• 21% more cases diagnosed in digital pathology vs. manual
• 100% of pathologists reported digital pathology enables better diagnostic consensus through online collaboration
• Philips' integrated diagnostics vision, powered by AWS, enables:
  • Streamlined clinical workflows
  • Improved diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes
  • Accelerated research and development of AI-powered precision medicine

Conclusion: The Future of Integrated Diagnostics

• Philips and AWS's long-standing partnership has enabled the transformation of healthcare informatics through cloud-powered integrated diagnostics
• By breaking down data silos and unifying multi-modal patient data, clinicians can make more informed decisions and deliver better care
• Continued innovation in areas like digital pathology, powered by managed services like AWS Health Imaging, will be key to realizing the full potential of integrated diagnostics