Frans van Houten
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Please state your question, sir
Hi, Kate. Well, patient monitoring is used in multiple care settings. The intensive care unit that is where we now see a boost in capacity and likely to go on for another year. And that is good because Philips has a very strong position in ICU. But what we will also see is the accelerated adoption of monitoring in other care settings, the general ward, in fact, many COVID patients ended up that didn't require intensive care support and patient monitoring at home or in ambulatory care settings. Both general ward and other care settings were relatively small markets, that we will now see accelerated growth in. So we are at the beginning of an adoption curve to equip these other care settings with an infrastructure, the monitoring stations or the command centers, plus the disposable wireless sensors, like the biosensor that I described. And that is all a new market that will start to boom. Moreover, the Connected Care platform that we talked about so often, we now see a strong interest in that. I referred to the Veterans Administration - Veterans Affairs, giving us a 10 year contract to build out a tele-critical care for care management, care coordination, patient engagement, but also collaboration between caregivers, which is all technology informatics-based, cloud-enabled. And those are new markets, right? Those markets are going to supplement our traditional strengths in the ICU. And therefore, even if, let's say, the initial peak in Connected Care, will start tapering off and also on the ventilators that will happen, then we are working very hard to get the new babies, the new areas to grow up quick - quickly and take over from there, and also then to deliver on some of the promises that we have been making around Connected Care.