330 million, a daunting number, is the grim status quo of cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment in China.
According to the China Cardiovascular Health and Disease Report (2022), the cardiovascular prevalence is on the rise. High morbidity, high complication rate, high recurrence rate, high disability rate and high mortality rate make the diagnosis and treatment of related diseases a strong fortress.
Due to the characteristics of the disease, cardiovascular disease relies heavily on imaging diagnosis. Laboratory tests, CT, MR, DSA (Digital Subtraction Angiography) and other tests are crucial, but the process is long and complex. At the same time, collaboration between physicians is also incompatible with data and does not allow for a complete picture of the patient.
The passive, fragmented and fractured medical service chain makes cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment barriers, and clinical information is "lying" in different silos. Sadly, there is a shortage of interventional physicians in China, and the barriers to data in the workflow have increased the workload and cognitive load of medical staff. How to break through the barriers of people, equipment, and data?
Following the consistent development trajectory of "value-based healthcare", Philips' "Nebula Starshadow" cardiovascular intelligent imaging overall solution may become the best answer to this question.
Based on the insight into the cardiovascular field, the combination of Nebulas' Advanced Visual Imaging Platform (ISP) and Xingying Intelligent Image Management System (ISCV) integrates equipment, technology, information system and services to process the image data and non-image data of different modes of the patient's full timeline in real time. The combination of strong and powerful provides real-time and accurate image information for cardiovascular interventional surgery, increases doctors' confidence in diagnosis, and makes the evidence-based, precise and individualized treatment level of cardiovascular interventional surgery one step forward.
Driven by in-depth clinical insights, the solution's seamless data connectivity and intuitive interface simplify the process and reshape the experience, giving physicians more time to focus on patients, improving clinical outcomes and enhancing career fulfillment.
As Philips believes, parts that go beyond the core skills and values of doctors, such as diagnosis and treatment, should be covered by an integrated connected solution.
How does Philips' overall cardiovascular intelligent imaging solution benefit medical services and patients and create greater value increment?
With informatization as the starting point, real-time "GPS" is installed for cardiovascular interventional surgery
Cardiovascular interventional therapy is a technology that uses medical imaging equipment to enter the heart cavity or vascular lesion through the vascular route through the medical imaging equipment to enter the heart cavity or vascular lesion site through the vascular route.
Unlike in the era of open surgery, the surgeon's evaluation of cardiovascular lesions often relies on preoperative imaging. Since the surgery is performed under X-ray fluoroscopy, the accuracy of the image will only increase, so as to assess the calcification, thrombosis and elasticity of the blood vessel wall.
The Chinese Medical Journal once pointed out that the diagnosis and evaluation in the era of precision intelligence and minimally invasive are not only satisfied with morphological accuracy, but also require accurate and intelligent judgment of blood fluidity. This will promote the integration of examination technologies with different characteristics, which can be the fusion of hardware, that is, the same time, the same part, the application of different examination methods to examine at the same time, and more likely the fusion of software, that is, the dynamic fusion of the same part, different times, and different hardware examinations, so as to provide more accurate and intelligent diagnosis and evaluation of cardiovascular diseases.
In order to allow doctors to no longer be confined to the difficulty of fragmenting information and cope with "tailor-made" precision treatment, multi-modal image compatibility and advanced image quantitative analysis have gradually become the aspirations of experts.
Taking cardiovascular interventional surgery as an example, before surgery, Philips' "Nebula Xingying" cardiovascular intelligent imaging overall solution can integrate the hospital's existing EMR electronic medical record and HIS/PACS patient management system, integrate all multimodal image data of the disease treatment cycle at the same interface according to the timeline, assist doctors in assessing surgical risks, formulate surgical plans, and obtain accurate cardiovascular interventional surgery "maps".
Intraoperative, image fusion intraoperative navigation scheme can help doctors locate and guide in real time. In addition, Philips' "Nebula Star" cardiovascular intelligent imaging overall solution and Azurion catheter machine realize patient data synchronization and intelligent linkage. During the operation, the doctor can observe the multi-modal image in real time, and the technician provides support in the control room to ensure the efficient and stable operation and improve the effectiveness and success rate of the operation.
After surgery, the surgical effect was evaluated in real time. Through a unified platform, doctors can access a variety of perioperative images and results of patients, and immediately enter the perspective of clinical work.
The overall solution of "Nebula Xingying" cardiovascular intelligent imaging runs through the whole process of diagnosis and treatment, and opens up the information and data transmission blockages faced by cardiovascular diseases in the clinical path and the whole life cycle, so that doctors have real-time "GPS" in cardiovascular interventional surgery. Seamless data connectivity and intuitive interfaces simplify the process for both physicians and patients.
Philips' "Nebula Star" cardiovascular intelligent imaging solution empowers the whole process of cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment
Originating from clinical needs, returning to clinical practice or the original intention of innovative solutions. It is not difficult to see that driving "value-based healthcare" is the innovative starting point of Philips' "Nebula Starshadow" cardiovascular intelligent imaging overall solution. In the context of the new era, the realization of value-based healthcare is an inevitable trend in the transformation of China's health service system, and Philips promotes "value-based healthcare" with health technology innovation, so as to jointly promote the development of the medical industry to high-end, integrated and intelligent.
Information interconnection and interoperability to create integrated cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment
It is an indisputable fact that the current clinical data in the cardiovascular field is huge and complex, with many interfaces, and is scattered and stored in various medical units. Despite the large patient population and abundant clinical cases in China, data integration, utilization, and in-depth analysis are still lacking.
Benefiting from the disruptive breakthroughs of big data and AI, medical devices are no longer limited to technological innovation on hardware devices. It is the trend of the times to integrate hardware, software, data and other technologies to build an integrated and interconnected ecosystem, and it is also the maximization of value increment.
Through the combination of the Nebula advanced visual imaging platform and the Nebula intelligent image management system, the information barriers of multiple departments can be broken down, and multi-modal medical information data can be provided for cardiovascular wards, interventional operating rooms and heart centers to assist doctors in making the best medical decisions.
Since 2003, Philips has made healthcare solutions a key focus of the company's development. In the decades since, through acquisitions and local innovations, it has become a global leader in CT, MR, cardiovascular imaging systems, X-ray equipment, monitoring systems, automated external defibrillators and ultrasound.
If the advantages of artificial intelligence, medical imaging and other technologies are the market moat of Philips, then starting from the pain points of the current medical situation and the needs of doctors and patients is the axe to expand its new business. In response to the needs of cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment in China, in the face of long-standing data barriers, in 2024, Philips' "Nebula Xingying" cardiovascular intelligent imaging overall solution came into being.
With the unification and standardization of medical imaging data as the core, Nebulas follows the long-term architecture of high compatibility and high scalability, supports cross-vendor multi-modal image data, realizes integrated browsing, opens up imaging workflows, and fundamentally solves the interconnection between various systems.
The Star Shadow system takes cardiac imaging as the core, clinical diagnosis, department data collection and management, scientific research assistance, remote teaching, and cross-regional consultation. It is patient-centered, presents various imaging diagnostic information in the patient's disease diagnosis and treatment cycle according to the timeline, clearly shows the patient's examination process and examination results, and can synchronize the patient's examination report and share diagnostic data, so as to assist doctors to fully grasp the patient's diagnosis information and formulate a reasonable treatment plan.
After the integration of the two, it can be seamlessly integrated with the mainstream information system to realize the panoramic timeline image reading of patients, break through the layers of obstacles in the medical data of cardiovascular patients, and enhance the confidence of doctors in diagnosis. In the final analysis, it is necessary to change the current situation of patients asking doctors and doing examinations everywhere in the past, and the information islands in the hospital are full of islands, to information revolving around patients, and breaking through the barriers of multi-link diagnosis and treatment information.
From single-line products to total solutions, from individual software to innovative solution integrations, Philips continues to break new ground in new businesses and regions.
It takes science and technology and big data as the axis for in-depth layout, integrates the relevant information and data required in the process of each disease, and provides an overall solution to solve the problems of each link.
Throughout the past, from the advent of IQon color spectral CT and locally developed and manufactured Incisive Aurora CT, the successful launch of the Azurion image-guided therapy platform, and the successful launch of the EPIQ CVx cardiovascular ultrasound system in China, to the maturity of the overall cardiovascular solution.
In the cardiovascular field, Philips has been methodically developing and innovating, polishing products, and building a sufficiently spacious moat with the length of time and the height of technology.
In the face of various challenges in the value upgrading of the medical industry, information products can best reflect "smart sustainability". Philips' "Nebula Star" cardiovascular intelligent imaging solution can empower paperless operations and promote the development of the medical industry towards a sustainable, green and low-carbon model.
From scattered data to in-depth clinical insights, it has promoted clinical practice and medical management to be standardized, systematic, process-oriented, and standardized, which is the most vivid interpretation of "infinite wisdom and infinite insight". It is not difficult to predict that in the future, Philips will continue to lead the industry with innovative paradigms in the interconnection of full-link information from cardiovascular disease screening, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring to chronic disease management.