Quartz December 6, 2022
Heather Landy

Philips innovation chief Shez Partovi sees the promise (and limits) of healthcare’s cloud revolution

From advances in precision medicine to the simple convenience of booking doctors’ appointments online, cloud computing is transforming healthcare.

Few people have had a view into these innovations like Shez Partovi. A neuroradiologist in clinical practice from 1998 to 2013, he led business development for healthcare, life sciences, and medical devices at Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division before joining Philips, the Dutch health and consumer care conglomerate, in 2021 as chief medical, innovation, and strategy officer.

Despite rapid advances in cloud technology, says Partovi, medicine hasn’t kept pace. (For that, we can mostly blame the messy economics of healthcare, particularly in the...

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