Exec Chat: Philips's Bert Van Meurs Discusses Innovation And Plans For Image-Guided Therapy Business Unit
Executive Summary
This year, Bert van Meurs, chief business leader of Philips's image-guided therapy business, has led two major product launches and a new partnership with Microsoft to combine Philips's Azurion angiographic platform with Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed-reality (MR) technology. Medtech Insight caught up with van Meurs to learn more about Azurion, the continued role of machine learning and MR, the overall business strategy and competitive landscape.
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