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Philips Foundation is committed to improve access to healthcare in underserved communities through innovation and collaboration. Many of our projects and activities explore new ideas, solutions, or models for scaling access to care in these communities. Through our projects, we generate new insights and knowledge that help catalyze innovation and inspire others to act. The Knowledge Hub offers a repository of learnings and ideas from our current and past projects, reports, publications, and other project resources. Our work To make healthcare more accessible for all, Philips Foundation deploys Philips’ expertise in innovative and technology-enabled solutions, strengthens community and primary healthcare at local level and fosters healthcare delivery models that are scalable, financially sustainable, and affordable. Our focus areas in the healthcare sector are addressing the rise in non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular and respirsatory diseases), improving maternal and child care, and enhancing the effectiveness of acute (emergency) care in underserved communities around the world. Below are some of our successful projects that demonstrate how we are improving access to healthcare and drive sustainable change.
To reach patients in communities with limited access to healthcare, Philips Foundation plays a proactive role in understanding local community needs and deploying Philips digital and connected healthcare solutions to address the medical needs of communities in low-resource settings.
Validation of a new reference standard to improve the accuracy of validating and comparing automated respiratory rate counting devices to aid diagnosis of childhood pneumonia.
Setting the global benchmark for quality management of tackling childhood pneumonia in India, and develop and prove low-cost innovative approaches for prevention, diagnosis and management.
Fast and reliable access to advanced medical support in underserved communities helps reduce healthcare barriers, such as having to travel to alarger hospital due to local staff and medical capability shortcomings. Philips Foundation supports initiatives that aim to digitalize and integrate technology-enabled healthcare solutions in underserved communities.
To provide healthcare support in underserved communities, Philips Foundation is focusing on improving education, early detection, timely patient referrals, and tech-enabled task-shifting to lower levels of healthcare, such as strengthening the role of community-based healthcare workers.
Study into motivational drivers for community health worker retention in Kenya – playing an indispensable role in providing basic health services – addressing the health worker shortages in low-resource settings.
Initiative to contribute to the reduction of maternal and child mortality by empowering community health workers with technology provision, capacity development and data collection.
As members of their local communities, community health workers play an indispensable role in providing basic health services close to the patients’ homes. With an estimated shortage of 13 million health workers by 2035, Philips Foundation explores ways to empower community health workers by providing them with tools, technologies and skills that can enhance the quality of community and primary healthcare where it is needed.
Philips Foundation supports healthcare delivery models that provide scalable, financially sustainable, and affordable healthcare in low- and middle-income regions.
Remote, tele-ultrasound education of emergency medicine physicians to improve bedside diagnosis and treatment and become local educational leaders who multiply impact.
Digital platform to raise the importance of early breast cancer detection and empower to do (self-)breast examination; while informing about the importance of consultation when needed.
Digital technologies and data offer enormous potential to transform healthcare for better medical outcomes. Underserved areas present opportunities for social enterprises to step in, scale their operations and ultimately reduce dependence on donations and grants. Philips Foundation aims to increase the probability of lasting healthcare access by supporting social entrepreneurs who strive to create positive social impact.
Our access to the expertise and capabilities available at Philips, combined with those of our partners, allows us to adopt original and distinctive approaches and to explore and disseminate them in a scientific manner. With our exploratory approach, Philips Foundation is a learning organization, and at the same time, a platform for knowledge dissemination.