Ambient Experience

RNOH offers a more calming experience with 3.0T MRI from Philips

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Stanmore, has installed a Philips Ingenia Elition X 3.0T MRI scanner, which is enhancing the patient journey with personalised lighting and visual themes. The more welcoming environment is particularly helpful for paediatric patients and those who feel anxious about MRI. With Philips Ambient Experience, departments can offer immersive visual […]

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Enhanced CT capacity improves the patient experience at Singleton Hospital

Singleton Hospital, Swansea, has installed a Philips Big Bore RT CT system with Ambient Experience, to help the team strengthen service efficiency and improve the experience for patients attending CT scans as part of their radiotherapy pathway. Principal clinical scientist Adam Selby said: “Having a second machine will significantly increase our capacity for cancer patients […]

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Three-year project delivers scanning suite for Royal Cornwall in Truro

Royal Philips joined staff at Royal Cornwall Hospital to celebrate the opening of a new scanning suite and dedicated haematology and oncology ward, complete with Philips MRI Ambient Experience system. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has opened its purpose-built Trelawny scanning suite and Lowen haematology/oncology ward at its Treliske site in Truro. The extension to […]

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Ambient Experience helps reduce patient anxiety during interventional procedures

Royal Philips’ new solution for interventional rooms, Ambient Experience with FlexVision display, is now commercially available. Connecting to the Azurion image-guided therapy system, it uses the system’s large display to offer patients a calming multisensory experience while staff prepare, prior to the display being used for the actual procedure. It also allows patients and interventional […]

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MR-OR helps reduce use of anaesthesia in children at Nottingham

Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has acquired a Philips MR-OR intraoperative MRI system. It is being used as a dedicated paediatric MR scanner and, by incorporating Philips’ KittenScanner and Ambient Experience, is helping children undertake MR examinations without general anaesthesia. MR-OR is an integrated solution for the Philips Elition X […]

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Philips and Disney team up to improve MRI experience for children

Royal Philips and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are teaming up to test the effects of custom-made animation, including specially-made Disney stories, within the Philips Ambient Experience. Through the integration of architecture, design and technologies such as dynamic lighting, video projections and sound, Ambient Experience allows patients and staff to personalise the environment to create […]

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Quiet MRI scanner removes the need for anaesthetic

Warren Hubble found the Ambient Experience calming during his MRI scan. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has installed the first of two Philips MRI scanners through a deferred payment plan, and ongoing large-scale fund-raising activities.  The campaign has already raised more than £640,000 toward funding the devices. One of the first patients to […]

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