Health technology company expects sales at its digital care business to grow in 2019
FILE PHOTO: Frans van Houten, chief executive of Philips, speaks during the presentation of the 2013 full-year results in Amsterdam, January 28, 2014. Picture: REUTERS / TOUSSAINT KLUITERS
Philips’s connected care division offers platforms to remotely monitor patients and for doctors to share patient data. Its sales have lagged those of the company’s bigger divisions, which sell large medical equipment and personal care devices, stagnating in 2018 and falling 1% in the first quarter of 2019.
That view was supported by an international study, published this week, which showed patients with access to their digital health records are more satisfied with the care they receive and are very willing to share that data with doctors.
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