Magnetic resonance imaging
Ambient Experience
Enhancing the MRI experience for patients and staff
MRI exams can be stressful, particularly for anxious or claustrophobic patients, leading to non-compliance with staff instructions and potentially impacting workflow and image quality. Philips Ambient Experience addresses this with dynamic lighting, sound and video to create an engaging environment to improve the patient experience. It reduces anxiety, increases cooperation and satisfaction and provides comfort during MRI scans – ultimately enhancing workflow and productivity.
Ambient Experience
Transforming the MRI environment for patients and healthcare staff
Active relaxation and positive distraction can help improve the MRI experience
Demonstrated results - Success by the numbers
Disney + Philips: reducing stress in pediatric MRI
Disney and Philips are partnering to reimagine the healthcare experience, combining Disney’s storytelling with Philips’ clinical expertise to bring comfort and inspiration to pediatric hospitals. For the first time ever in a diagnostic setting, original stylized Disney animation characters—such as Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Marvel’s Avengers, and Yoda from Star Wars—come alive. These exclusive Disney themes are designed to be engaging but not overly distracting, helping children stay calm and still during exams and supporting emotional resilience in moments that matter.
Improve the patient experience
An MRI environment perceived as cold, brightly lit, cluttered and unwelcoming can negatively impact the overall patient experience. A well-thought-out hospital environment can lead to physical and emotional comfort. By removing negative obstacles and clutter, and introducing elements for positive distraction with dynamic lighting, audio and visuals, you can improve patient and staff interaction. This can lead to improved patient compliance.
Ambient Experience for MRI
Ambient Experience MR creates a unique calming, and engaging experience for enhanced patient satisfaction. Patients can personalize the room's lighting, video, and sound by selecting a theme of their choice. Dynamic colored spotlights, embedded halo ceiling lighting, video projection, and calming sound accomplish positive distraction and a relaxing ambiance, while In-bore-Connect continues the theme in the bore and helps guide the patient during the examination.
Image gallery
- Ambient Experience with Disney themes
- Ambient Experience with Disney themes, girl with radiologist
- Ambient Experience for MR with Disney theme Ariel
- Beauty shot Ambient Experience for MR with Disney theme
Enhancing the mobile care environment with Ambient Experience
Patients who are stressed about an MRI exam may find the mobile MRI unit even more confining. Ambient Experience for MR Mobile [6] supports the helium-free BlueSeal Mobile MRI system with a solution ideal to improving patient comfort. The mobile unit provides the flexibility to deliver fast, patient-friendly MRI services where and when they are needed – all in a calming environment.
1/3
Footnotes
- Ambient Experience installed base study 2020.
- Runge SB, et al. Children centered care: Minimizing the need for anesthesia with a multifaceted concept for MRI in children aged 4–6. European Journal of Radiology. 2018; 107:183–187.
- Lerwick, J. L. (2016). Minimizing pediatric healthcare-induced anxiety and trauma. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, 5(2), 143-150.
- At Radiologisches Zentrum am Kaufhof in Lübeck, Germany, patient sedation dropped by 80% with the MRI system using In-bore Connect compared to three systems without it.
- Herlev Hospital, in Denmark, reported a 70% reduction in rescans on a scanner with Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect compared to the average number of rescans reported on the other five on-site Philips MR scanners without Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect.
- Ambient Experience for Mobile is works in progress, not yet available for sale.
Disclaimer
Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions.