AWS
-
Is Amazon’s Approach With HealthScribe Favoring Collaboration Over Competition Smart?
Amazon recently unveiled HealthScribe, an API that software companies can use to create clinical note generation apps that providers can later adopt. With this approach, Amazon is seeking to collaborate with companies that are building clinical documentation AI apps rather than compete with them. Some think this approach is clever, but others think it does little to facilitate bi-directional EHR integration and create standardization.
-
Get To Know the 23 Startups AWS Chose for Its Workforce Development Accelerator
Last fall, AWS announced that it was launching a new accelerator to support startups that develop technology to help the healthcare sector address its challenges with workforce deployment, retention and training. At ViVE, the company unveiled which 23 startups have been selected to take part in the accelerator.
-
Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
-
Why UNC Chose AWS as Its Cloud Partner to Launch 10 Startups Over 3 Years
The innovation institute run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create a venture studio to turn the university’s digital health research concepts into full-fledged startups. AWS’ platform beat out the other major cloud providers because it was “the most entrepreneurial,” according to the venture studio’s managing director.
-
Debunking Cloud Cost and ROI Hogwash for Healthcare
The hogwash started in The Wall Street Journal with a contrarian take on a recent KPMG technology report. But cloud operates in a fundamentally different paradigm from the IT infrastructure of the past, and embracing big change is rarely free or easy. But the rewards of evolving are obvious and far too great to ignore.
-
Prepping for FDA approval, Grail is partnering with health systems to validate its pan-cancer test
Grail, a company focused on early cancer detection, introduced its test that screens for more than 50 kinds of cancer last year. At AWS’ Thursday conference for healthcare and life sciences innovation, the company’s chief security officer explained how the company is evaluating the test in clinical trials and preparing to file for its FDA approval.
-
Report: What is helping AWS beat its health cloud competitors
AWS may be emerging as the healthcare sector’s cloud darling, as healthcare customers are reporting high levels of satisfaction and large health systems are beginning to ink long-term cloud partnership plans. Healthcare organizations that choose AWS over its competitors do so because they believe it’s the most mature and healthcare-focused cloud platform, according to a KLAS report released Tuesday.
-
Why 2 top health systems chose AWS as their cloud vendor
Dr. Shafiq Rab and John Kravitz, executives at Tufts Medicine and Geisinger, said AWS will offer them better connectivity speed and business continuity than other cloud vendors.
-
Health IT, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Solving health IT labor gaps with strategic interoperability partnerships
By leveraging aligned interoperability partners, health systems can alleviate the inevitable pressures of IT personnel shortages and the strains that labor fluctuation puts on organizational technology transformation and growth.
-
Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
-
What Google Cloud learned about interoperability from Mayo Clinic
Google is piloting its healthcare data engine, a tool intended to build longitudinal patient records and pull in data from multiple sources. Early work with Mayo Clinic served as a foundation for the technology.
-
Google Cloud goes head-to-head with AWS with tool to standardize health data
Both cloud competitors are offering solutions that use FHIR to pull together and standardize health data from disparate sources. Google recently unveiled a solution based on its work with Mayo Clinic.
-
Amazon’s cloud services business launches digital health accelerator
The accelerator, created by Amazon Web Services, will pick 10 healthcare startups in the U.S. using cloud-based services. To start, it will focus on solutions like remote patient monitoring, voice technology, analytics, patient engagement, and virtual care.
-
Novartis taps Amazon Web Services to beef up manufacturing efficiency
The Swiss drugmaker plans to use AWS technology in ‘insight centers’ that the Seattle-based tech giant said would allow better monitoring of production lines, as well as experimentation with new models to increase production of personalized medicines.
-
Amazon is turning its controversial Rekognition software to medical image redaction
Amazon has demonstrated the ability to combine its Comprehend Medical software service with its Rekognition image analysis to help automate medical image de-identification.
-
Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
AWS grant lets Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center explore machine learning
With the help of an academic research sponsorship grant from Amazon Web Services, the Boston-based medical center has initiated a multi-year program to research how machine learning can improve operational efficiency and patient care.