Category: Healthcare

Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers, affecting millions of women annually. Thanks to advances in early detection and groundbreaking technologies, a breast cancer diagnosis no longer has to evoke feelings of hopelessness. The latest publication of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO), shows […]

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, […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Epic, is announcing another increase in Epic on AWS customer database sizing, measured in global references per second (GRefs/s). Epic’s Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) can now be sized to 75 million GRefs/s in AWS. This is achieved on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) R7an.48xlarge instance combined with Amazon […]

Better data. Better insights. Better outcomes. The AWS for Healthcare team is heading to Orlando for the upcoming HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 11-15. In alignment with the event theme, “creating tomorrow’s health,” the AWS for Healthcare team will showcase our commitment to helping healthcare organizations generate better insights and better outcomes by […]

As a prelude to re:Invent 2023, AWS hosted the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) Executive Symposium in Las Vegas on Monday, November 27. The half-day, in-person event, attended by over 300 leaders from 180 organizations, centered around harnessing the power of data, analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative AI to accelerate innovation. This year’s symposium […]

Occasionally, new technologies emerge that fundamentally alter how businesses operate. But without the appropriate tools—controls, safeguards, and user experiences—the promise of new technologies can get stuck.  In the past year, many have been captivated by the potential of Generative AI to revolutionize drug discovery, precision medicine, and healthcare delivery. But what tools will turn the […]

Throughout 2023, we’ve witnessed an acceleration of innovation at the intersection of health and technology. And with this year’s AWS re:Invent right around the corner, industry and AWS leaders are preparing to share their cutting edge technologies, use cases, and breakthroughs fueled by integrated data strategies, machine learning, and generative AI. Running November 27 through […]

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has increased maximum sizing of global references per second (GRefs/s) for Epic on AWS customers.  AWS now supports operational database workloads of up to 42 million GRefs/s.  This represents a 61% GRefs/s increase from the previous AWS GRefs/s sizing announcement.  This step-change in scalability, delivered on the R6in instance, represents […]

Shawn Henry, President of CrowdStrike Services and Chief Security Officer of CrowdStrike, joins Phoebe Yang, General Manager of Public Sector Healthcare at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to discuss the past, present, and future of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry and society at large, with a focus on how cloud technology can help organizations preempt attacks. […]

This Industry Insights post is one in a series from AWS thought leaders in healthcare, life sciences, and genomics- exploring the impact of technological innovation and cloud computing in their industries The conference season is in full swing and finally in person again, after more than two years of virtual events due to COVID-19. As […]