Philips Health Technology Innovation Paris

All software teams work with a healthcare quality process. We integrate some parts of the Agile, like Daily, Sprints with their activities, but it is mandatory to have a strict process. This process is the base of the Healthcare requirements.

All parts of the development must be reviewed and approved to ensure product quality and tracability.

We used some special tools like Mend, Sonar, Fortify, etc. to assume the quality gates needed during the development phasis.

Medisys is organized in three teams covering Data Science and AI, Image-Guided therapy and Ultrasound. The profiles are 100% engineers, most often combined with a phD in medical imaging, with multiple competences ranging from idea to product.

• Daily : Scrum team work
• Weekly : Internal meetings with other Philips counterparts in Innovation and Businesses
• Monthly: Internal meeting of the three teams

The team is organized around 6 autonomous product-oriented teams, each owning a part of our product portfolio and 2 platform teams, with a split between data science (working on algorithms and models) and engineering (working on the platform). All teams work around a quarterly planning routine but otherwise can adopt various agile methodologies (mostly kanban or scrum) to best fit their needs. Feature teams are lead by a product manager - tech lead duo, and designers and analysts are transversal teams, working across all products to make sure that we don’t build silos, and that we provide our customers with a coherent experience across our portfolio.

We use best practices for software delivery: pair programming, code reviews, CI/CD, etc, but we also thrive to combine an agile, iterative mindset with the strict quality requirements that comes with building medical software that directly affect the health of millions of patients.

We produce 2 releases per year with new features, product defects, security patches, hardware improvements.

We produce Hotfix (security, product defects, etc.…) to regularly update the install base and satisfied all actual customers with the best up to date product.

Medisys team has contributed to many Philips products:

• TrueVue
• ClarityIQ
• Dynamic Cardiac Roadmap
• EchoNavigator
• Echographie pour la radiologie interventionnelle
• ISP 12

The team is also contributing key building blocks for integration in product software. Clinical studies also produce evidence to support the benefits of our proposed innovations.

We have a lot of interesting challenges ahead of us, which we can categorize in two.

First, we’re scaling the now mature Holter platform to new customer segments, new geographies and new capabilities. That means being able to absorb more volumes, with better algorithms and AI models covering more conditions, but also adapting to different constraints: streamlined flows connected with hospital systems and stricter privacy constraints. Cardiologs is unique, as all data from our products (more than 10 Petabyte of data), is at the disposal of our data scientists to develop new and better models.

We’re also building out new products: a platform for 12-lead ECGs, another for monitoring patients from their smartwatches, and a range of digital biomarkers - moving from detecting conditions to predicting them. All of those products come with specific technical and product challenges, from new algorithms to completely revamping our backend and release processes to support multiple concurrent products, and collaborating with new businesses to make those products a reality for patients.