How Shez Partovi Is Driving Patient-Centered Innovation and AI Strategy at Philips

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

“Great innovations are painkillers, not vitamins.”
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips, a €18B global health technology leader. Shez shares how Philips is building people- and patient-centric innovation by partnering with healthcare providers, co-creating solutions, and scaling software and AI-driven insights to meet the growing demands of modern care delivery.

A former AWS health exec and practicing neuroradiologist, Shez offers a unique lens on the convergence of tech and clinical practice. He outlines how Philips’ software-first strategy is accelerating productivity, reducing clinician burnout, and expanding access to care while also navigating AI trust gaps and reshaping internal engineering practices.

Key themes include:

• The strategy behind Philips’ health tech transformation
• AI’s role in automation, augmentation, and agility in care delivery
• Co-creation with health systems to drive scalable impact
• Philips’ dual-speed innovation model (80% business-led, 20% moonshots)