Every innovation should get time back to the physician or the nurse to spend with the patient.

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AI in healthcare shouldn’t be judged by how advanced it sounds. It should be judged by how much time it gives back. true

As Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation Officer at Philips, explains, the promise of health innovation is simple: reduce friction for clinicians so they can spend more time with patients.

In cardiac ultrasound, a sonographer may spend around 20 minutes scanning a patient, and then another 20 minutes manually reviewing images, selecting frames, and making measurements. Cardiologists didn’t sign up to do what he says is “basically Photoshop”.

AI can turn that second step into one button, and the impact is immediate:

Clinicians spend less time on repetitive manual tasks.
Patients get faster diagnoses.
Health systems improve in both throughput and access.
And care teams get the joy of medicine back

“This,” he says, “is the difference between AI as a buzzword and AI as a real-world outcome.”

The Annual Health Roundtable (Geneva, 18–23 May 2026) brings together leaders across sectors to rethink healthcare, innovation, and sustainable funding.

The AHR session on Reimagining Life Sciences and MedTech in the Age of AI will be available to members of the World Economic Forum digital community on May 19th.

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