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AWS Healthcare Customers Announce New Generative AI-Powered Solutions at HIMSS 2024
Aligned with the HIMSS 2024 theme of “creating tomorrow’s health,” AWS for Healthcare and Life Sciences teams are on the ground with our customers and partners highlighting how the cloud helps them generate better insights and better outcomes by leveraging data and applying innovative technologies like generative AI.
In addition to speaking slots and demos, we’re proud to highlight new examples of these solutions announced this week, including by Philips, Pieces Technologies, Symplr, and Konica Minolta:
Philips Expands Collaboration with AWS, Scaling Digital Pathology and Enabling AI/ML to Improve Diagnostics, Clinical Productivity, and Research
To address the growing need for scalable cloud-based digital pathology solutions, Philips announced that it will work with AWS to help pathology labs and healthcare organizations better store, manage, and analyze growing volumes of digital pathology data. With its new solution, Philips aims to improve digital workflow integration, access, and reliability to advance patient care, as well as enable advanced AI/ML capabilities. With this, healthcare organizations can realize greater productivity, insights, and care collaboration to address complex medical cases, like in cancer care. The solution will also accelerate research through enabling large scale clinical trials, and multi-institute studies. Philips will build with AWS HealthImaging, a HIPAA-eligible service from AWS, to optimize storage, increase scale, and enable AI and research, and with Amazon Bedrock, which offers high-performing foundation models (FMs), to support generative AI application development and integration.
Pieces Unveils Generative AI-Powered Personal Writing Assistant for Physicians Built with AWS HealthScribe
Pieces Technologies announced the launch of a new advanced phone-based solution designed to enhance patient progress note generation with a voice-enabled assistant that understands and contextualizes the patient history. The solution, Pieces in Your Pocket, enables physicians to “talk, rather than dictate” about what they want to see in patient progress notes in as little as 30-45 seconds. To generate the progress note, the solution combines Pieces’ comprehension and LLM engines with AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA-eligible service from AWS that uses speech recognition and generative AI to automatically generate preliminary clinical documentation. Pieces then generates a fully formed note within the EHR, incorporating all of the physician’s key points using its working longitudinal understanding of the patient, the physician’s prior notes and authorship style, and the patient’s current issues and results.
symplr Launches Healthcare Operations Solution, Powered by Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q
To help healthcare organizations accelerate operational efficiency by easing staff scheduling and other administrative processes, symplr announced symplrAI, an enterprise solution to connect and optimize hospital operations using generative AI services including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q. The solution aims to automate complex workflows as well as break down siloed applications and so clinicians and administrators can better access relevant data more quickly. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies via a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. Amazon Q is a new type of generative AI-powered assistant that is specifically designed for work that can be tailored to an organization’s business.
Konica Minolta Announces Enterprise Imaging Solution Using AWS HealthImaging for Faster Data Access and Reduced Storage Costs
Announcing its Exa® Platform, an Enterprise Imaging, PACS, RIS and Billing solution, is available using AWS HealthImaging, Konica Minolta now offers Its customers comprehensive, cloud-based production workflow software with features like Server-Side Rendering and Diagnostic Zero Footprint Viewer and a single, integrated database across all modules. Using AWS HealthImaging for storage and retrieval of DICOM instances, the solution provides benefits like storage cost-savings, access from almost anywhere, and faster retrieval speeds. And giving customers the ability to use their own AWS HealthImaging data store, they can integrate their choice of various generative AI, data interoperability, and other solutions.
As healthcare and life sciences organizations increasingly turn to the cloud to accelerate innovation, AWS looks forward to continuing to help our partners and customers harness the power of technologies like generative AI to advance their missions and better serve clinicians and patients.
See additional ways how AWS for Healthcare and Life Sciences customers are leveraging generative AI: DeepScribe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Genomics England, Pfizer, Merck, Hurone AI, HOPPR, Netsmart, and the Allen Institute.