Royal Philips : Philips Lumify enhances access to care across Asia Pacific

With the recent introduction of Philips' Lumify in South Korea, and the Philippines, the benefits of a powerful point-of-care app-based ultrasound solution now stretch across a large part of Asia Pacific - from Korea to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the Southeast Asia region, to Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific. For the region's remote communities, the ready availability of an easy-to-use low-cost diagnostic ultrasound tool that can be used by general practitioners, community health workers, and disaster relief services is a significant enabler of better health coverage. In highly urbanized areas such as those in Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Lumify's ability to deliver high quality point-of-care imaging outside the traditional hospital environment is helping to address resource issues such as bed shortages, and within hospitals, it is providing clinicians with a powerful imaging tool for better bedside diagnosis and treatment, especially in intensive care units.

With the option of several different lightweight ultrasound probes that connect via USB to an Android-based mobile or tablet pre-loaded with the Lumify app (free to download from Google Play), the Lumify system suits wide-ranging applications in areas such as emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, musculoskeletal care and general practice.