Tag: #healthcare

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are reinventing how they collaborate, make data driven clinical and operational decisions, enable precision medicine, and decrease the cost of care. AWS for Health, a curated offering of AWS services and AWS Partner Network solutions designed for healthcare and life sciences customers, provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help […]

AWS has, again, increased scalability of global references per second (GRref/s) for Epic on AWS customers. This represents a 260% increase since being approved as a public cloud provider for Epic customers starting in 2019. Amazon EC2 M6i instances provide this step-change in performance, resulting in the highest GRref/s scaling in the public cloud.  The AWS […]

In this blog post, we discuss how to leverage Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Textract,  Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight to further innovate and simplify healthcare prior authorization form completion. In our previous blog post, we discussed prior authorizations and how the often manual process can lead to delays or denials for care. These […]

Interoperability is a critical enabler for exchanging patient information between healthcare professionals and systems/applications to support evidence-based care at scale. The core of interoperability is sharing data between healthcare IT (HIT) applications, within and across healthcare organizations. Patient data is siloed in HIT applications, including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), medical devices, lab systems, radiology PACS […]

Celebrating its 10th year, AWS re:Invent 2021 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring content, educational workshops and bootcamps, and plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place in Las Vegas from November 29th through December 3rd, and will have an engaging virtual component for those who cannot join us […]

Extracting important information from unstructured medical texts (e.g., transcribed physician notes) is a key step in understanding the content of such documents, yet many healthcare and life sciences organizations struggle with this. Manually extracting the data is a time-consuming process, while automated rule-based attempts to extract the data don’t capture the full story as they […]

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is the largest health information and technology event of the year, providing professionals with opportunities to connect, learn, and innovate. This year, HIMSS21 will take place in Las Vegas August 9-13, and also features a separate virtual event, HIMSS21 Digital, running in parallel to the in-person conference. To […]

Because healthcare organizations depend on their medical images to help improve patient outcomes, being able to securely store and retrieve those images reliably and quickly is crucial. Organizations face an increasing challenge to support a durable storage solution as image stores grow into hundreds of terabytes, and in some cases, petabytes. With the increasing number of ransomware […]

Last year, we announced Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to securely store, transform, query, analyze, and share health data in the cloud, at petabyte scale. We launched HealthLake to address one of the key challenges that the health industry – from healthcare payers to life […]

Healthcare and life science organizations are moving towards digital transformation to decrease the cost of care, improve collaboration, make data-driven clinical and operational decisions, and enable faster development of new therapeutics and treatment paths. Identifying the right cloud technology to reach these goals can be challenging, and many organizations lack the internal resourcing and expertise […]