How Shez Partovi Is Driving Patient-Centered Innovation and AI Strategy at Philips

August 25, 2025

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Shez Partovi

Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips

Shez Partovi is the Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips. A neuroradiologist, clinical professor, and global executive, Shez brings deep experience leading large health systems, cloud transformation, and AI/ML adoption across healthcare, life sciences, and genomics. Since 2021, he has led Philips’ Innovation & Design organization, driving enterprise-wide strategies to scale people- and patient-centric innovation. In 2023, he also assumed leadership of Philips’ Enterprise Informatics business, unifying hardware and software to deliver insights that optimize care delivery and improve outcomes. Prior to Philips, Shez was Worldwide Head of Business Development for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Medical Devices at Amazon Web Services. Earlier, he spent two decades at Dignity Health, including 15 years in clinical practice as a neuroradiologist at Barrow Neurological Institute. A graduate of McGill University with post-grad training in computer science, Shez also helped found the Biomedical Informatics Department at Arizona State University, where he taught as a clinical professor.

Episode Overview

“Great innovations are painkillers, not vitamins.”
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips, a €18B global health technology leader. Shez shares how Philips is building people- and patient-centric innovation by partnering with healthcare providers, co-creating solutions, and scaling software and AI-driven insights to meet the growing demands of modern care delivery.

A former AWS health exec and practicing neuroradiologist, Shez offers a unique lens on the convergence of tech and clinical practice. He outlines how Philips’ software-first strategy is accelerating productivity, reducing clinician burnout, and expanding access to care while also navigating AI trust gaps and reshaping internal engineering practices.

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