Senior Scientist Health Informatics at Philips

In this role you will have the opportunity to work within the Africa Innovation Hub, to develop new concepts and translate them into options for innovations with industrial and societal relevance.

You are responsible for:

• Carrying out industrial research in public health with specific emphasis on applying innovative and emerging technologies (examples include big data analytics, IoT) in primary care for emerging markets

• Embed end-to-end user-centered approach in technology development or conceptualization

• Supporting operationalization of the technology proof-of-concepts through close collaboration with Development & Design

• Keeping abreast of technical, application and market developments in the relevant technological and industrial areas, showing interest in the business aspects;

• Contribute pro-actively to a creative and inspiring working environment;

• Contribute pro-actively to a secure working environment.

  More specifically:

• Translate primary customer insights into IT-specific technology propositions (m-health/e-health) that enable primary care performance monitoring based on standard performance metrics and using innovative or non-obtrusive methods including retrospective data, predictive modeling, workflow monitoring, qualitative data.

• Identify and create new propositions based on emerging themes and trends in the technology ecosystem that would strengthen the primary care propositions for Philips, globally

• Clinical and end-user validation of the developed solutions based on standard validation/verification protocols

• Contribute to strengthening engagement with the local ecosystem to foster a collaborative approach to solutions ideation and conceptualization

• Additionally, knowledge of the healthcare-related data integration standards and affinity toward data analysis, warehousing, and integration are important.

• You will keep on developing your knowledge via networking, conferences, scientific articles, etc. External exposure (for example by means of scientific publications) and external collaborations (for example with universities or in the context of European research projects) are highly encouraged.

You are part of the Africa Innovation Hub, a (we believe, inspiring) group of social entrepreneurs and researchers within Philips that specifically designs new solutions and business models for Africa. Our focus is inclusive innovation: to reach the part of society that is not targeted by traditional business, in this case the rising middle-class and base of the pyramid in Africa.

Philips is the first non-it technology company that opened a research hub in Africa so you'll be at the forefront of health innovation in Africa and working with both the local and international innovation ecosystem and high-level international organizations and NGOs.

The headquarters of the Philips Innovation Hub are in Kenya, but you will be working with our research hubs in India and Europe too.

We are constantly looking for highly qualified health informatics scientists (MSc, PhD, PhD+PostDoc or industrial R&D experience). To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Masters or engineering degree in applied sciences, e.g. Health Informatics.

• Experience in cross-discipline co-operation (e.g. electronics, IT).

• Ability to combine theoretical modelling and experimentation to optimally execute research projects.

• You are a team worker and customer/goal oriented.

• You also have the mindset of an entrepreneur.

• You are passionate about your work and the impact you can make with it on people’s lives

• You have a flexible and open mind and you are willing to enter new areas of industrial research.

  Other important aspects are:

• a genuine technical curiosity

• well-above-average results from a (technical) university

• outstanding creativity and self-powered work attitude

• good communication skills

• ability to work in an interdisciplinary scientific environment