AI for Interoperability in Health Care: Philips’s Carla Goulart Peron
Philips CMO: AI isn't replacing doctors. It's giving them back time with patients.

Why it matters
Healthcare leaders are moving beyond AI-as-replacement narrative toward interoperability and augmentation. This reflects a broader shift in how enterprises position AI adoption to stakeholders—focusing on clinician enablement rather than automation anxiety.
The key facts
9 to knowPhilips positioning AI for diagnostic improvement and access expansion
CMO perspective: AI frees clinicians for patient-facing time
Healthcare interoperability as key AI application area
Interview-based insight (podcast format, not primary research)
Philips Chief Medical Officer on AI in health care
Focus: interoperability, diagnostics, clinician time recapture
Context: Brazil's strained public health system as case study
Framing: AI as access expander, not clinician replacement
Source: MIT Sloan Review podcast (published June 2026)
Go to the source
MIT Sloan Management Reviewsloanreview.mit.edu
Publisher excerpt: In this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Philips’s chief medical officer Carla Goulart Peron shares how artificial intelligence is reshaping health care — not by replacing clinicians but by expanding access, improving diagnostics, and freeing doctors to focus more time on patients.…
