Health Populi June 11, 2020
What a difference 90 days makes.
I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.
HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence….due to the great disruption of COVID-19.
Philips’ business, plans and projects had already been reshaping and redeploying due to the pandemic in Asia and Europe...