Philips Lumify portable ultrasound, winner of the Top Ten Medical Devices of the Year award, enters the high-speed 5G era

Shanghai, January 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 9, at the 12th Health China Forum hosted by People's Daily Health Client and Health Times, Philips Lumify portable ultrasound diagnostic system won the 2019 "Top Ten Medical Devices" award. The Philips Lumify portable ultrasound diagnostic system integrates hardware, software and service innovations, not only providing professional-grade high-definition imaging, but also providing remote diagnostic experiences for doctors and patients through convenient remote connections, thereby breaking the limitations of usage space and personnel.

The Health China Annual Forum is one of the earliest, most influential, highest quality, and most authoritative conferences in China's medical and health sector with the theme of "Healthy China." It has become a national high-end forum jointly participated by party and government at all levels, medical and health management institutions, medical, pharmaceutical, health and media circles.

Top Ten Medical Devices of the Year

The Philips Lumify portable ultrasound diagnostic system, through the simple application of "probe is ultrasound," can connect with mobile phones, tablets and other devices to provide high-definition images, providing a basis for accurate diagnosis; a wide range of application scenarios, through convenient remote transmission, break the limitations of time and space in medical care, realize remote diagnosis, and bring qualitative breakthroughs to Chinese medical care, especially primary medical care. In this selection, the Philips Lumify portable ultrasound diagnostic system has won wide acclaim in the industry for its major breakthroughs in core technology and won the 2019 "Top Ten Medical Devices" award.

Ms. Chen Xiaosui, Vice President of Philips Greater China and General Manager of Ultrasound Business Unit, said: "As a leader in ultrasound solutions, Philips has been committed to providing optimized solutions for doctors' clinical diagnosis and subsequent research through excellent images. This year's Lumify award for "Top Ten Medical Devices" also confirms the industry's full affirmation of Philips' ultrasound R&D strength and market insight. Telemedicine will be an inevitable trend, and we will also actively promote the localized application of Lumify's remote solution under 5G technology to better meet the actual needs of the Chinese market."

Philips Lumify

The Philips Lumify 5G remote solution, with the addition of the portable Lumify and the real-time high-quality 5G "high bandwidth," "low latency," and "massive connectivity" remote platform, can realize seamless sharing and transmission of scanning images and data, high-definition video calls between upper and lower hospitals or specialized alliances, bringing cutting-edge medical resources to every primary care physician. Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Xinhua Hospital Chongming Branch has established a 5G ultrasound diagnostic training center, realizing a three-module consultation system of Community Fixed-Point Consultation, Mobile Ultrasound Consultation, and Expert Mobile Consultation. By building a Community Ultrasound Physician Training Base to cultivate new ultrasound physicians, a Chongming Community Ultrasound Physician Retraining Model can be created, which is replicable and promotable, creating an example of continuing education and remote consultation for Community Ultrasound Physicians in Shanghai and even the whole country. Among them, Lumify, with its light and compact size, simple operation, and high-quality images, has become a good help. Whether in Community Ultrasound Physician training or in rural medical aid, it is no longer necessary to be restricted by the inconvenience of large equipment movement, making training and guidance more flexible and efficient, and making medical aid activities more convenient.