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Frans van Houten
Dutch
Businessman
Born:
Apr 26
,
1960
Care
Health
Innovation
People
Will
World
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As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.
Frans van Houten
Care
Someone
Deliver
Soon
Diagnosed
Still
Disease
Need
The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
Frans van Houten
Become
Strategy
Our
Systems
Volcano
Advances
Leading
Acquire
Agreement
The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum of care - from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to monitoring and aftercare.
Frans van Houten
Opportunities
Care
Paradigm
Significant
Solutions
More
Prevention
Deliver
Global
Undergoing
Industry
Diagnosis
Healthcare
Shift
Integrated
Continuum
Providing
Across
Monitoring
Treatment
Philips is uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management by leveraging big data and delivering care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, minimally invasive treatment, recovery, and home care.
Frans van Houten
Health
Home
Management
Care
Big
Healthy
Living
Data
Prevention
Recovery
Delivering
Diagnosis
Continuum
Optimize
Across
Help
Uniquely
Population
Treatment
If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
Frans van Houten
Technology
Care
Focus
Rather
More
Costs
Prevention
Escalating
Than
Get
Going
Grip
Us
Help
Acute
We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
Frans van Houten
Change
Culture
Innovation
Focus
Transformation
Our
Ways
Ensure
Scale
Diversification
Rather
Simplify
Step
Advantage
Sharpen
Became
Years
Huge
Up
Than
Improve
Bureaucratic
Hangover
Size
After
Customer
Working
Productivity
Internal
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Competitiveness
Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.
Frans van Houten
Time
Innovation
Side
Our
May
With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing.
Frans van Houten
Will
Own
Physical
More
Support
Feel
Empowered
Around
Access
Wellbeing
Clock
Manage
Patients
Coaching
Professional
The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change.
Frans van Houten
Change
People
Money
Care
First
Society
Sick
Spend
Way
Out
Would
Emergency
Emergency Room
Hospital
Lifestyle
Take
Had
Take Care
Looks
Terribly
First Place
Healthcare
Traditional
Been
Traditional Way
Lot
Get
Place
Room
Them
Then
Who
Acute
Kept
Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
Frans van Houten
Work
Technology
Invent
Power
Become
Matters
Innovative
Our
Television
Put
Categories
Attractive
Because
Lot
Mature
Heath
Where
Wanted
Whereas
Low-Cost
Us
Really
Certain
Product
Less
Hence
Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.
Frans van Houten
Happiness
Health
Our
Economic
Advancement
Foundation
Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.
Frans van Houten
People
Young
Thinking
Our
Rules
Constantly
Reminder
Also
Always
How
Traditional
Unencumbered
Refreshing
Break
Young People
Engagement
Agile
Keep
Routine
Need
Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.
Frans van Houten
Needs
Innovation
Determination
World
Focus
Reap
Live
Approach
Sights
Though
Solving
All-Around
Tenacity
Long-Term
Around
Years
Short
Rewards
Transform
Requires
Companies
Company
Even
Need
Set
If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
Frans van Houten
Future
Health
Technology
Key
Achieve
Changes
Collaboration
Ensure
System
Future Generations
Remains
Rethink
Generations
Partners
Healthcare
How
Provide
Affordable
Manage
Available
Help
Radically
Widely
Apply
Need
If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
Frans van Houten
Future
Health
Care
Ensure
Future Generations
Remains
Rethink
Generations
Health Care
How
Provide
Affordable
Manage
Available
Radically
Widely
Need
Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.
Frans van Houten
World
Will
Value
Rest
Think
Lasting
Innovations
Economic
Sooner
Perhaps
Than
African
Social
Create
Help
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
Frans van Houten
Focus
Our
Possible
Objects
Myopic
Consuming
Cheaply
Economy
Discarded
Linear
Which
Then
Created
Producing
Used
Waste
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
Frans van Houten
History
Path
Victory
Heroes
Will
Doubt
Back
Our
Circular
Feature
Put
Major
Obstacles
Like
Economy
However
Shift
Linear
Persevere
Pioneers
Human
Sustainability
Tumultuous
Transitions
Human History
Moments
Growth
Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.
Frans van Houten
Government
Business
Creative
Innovation
People
Approaches
Must
Financing
Solutions
Seek
More
Developing
Support
Policy
Partners
Priority
Offering
Sustainable
Dynamic
Public
Infrastructure
Should
Public Policy
Strategic
Resilient
Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.
Frans van Houten
Innovation
Important
Seniors
Independent
Catalyst
Encouraging
Them
Meaningful
Engaged
Keeping
Resilience
Healthcare is a conservative marketplace.
Frans van Houten
Conservative
Marketplace
Healthcare
Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.
Frans van Houten
Care
Critical
Prevention
Investments
Towards
Targeted
Avoidance
Incidents
Therefore
Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.
Frans van Houten
People
Benefits
Care
Chronic
Possible
About
Could
Disappears
Concerns
Expectations
Disease
Confronted
Aside
Themselves
Swept
Connected
Resistance
Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.
Frans van Houten
Health
Great
People
World
Wealth
Drive
More
Economy
Also
Make
Safer
Accessible
Contribute
Get
Affordable
Help
Included
Population
Tech
Growth
When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
Frans van Houten
Health
Needs
Technology
World
Made
Radical
Worried
Segments
Longer
Became
Because
Were
Mature
CEO
Really
Growing
Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.
Frans van Houten
Great
Courage
Path
Carefully
Relevant
Stay
Takes
Been
Themselves
Successful
Companies
Grow
Preparing
Reinvent
Need
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