Author: Aaron Friedman, PhD

At Tableau Conference 2018, we announced a new AWS Quick Start: Tableau Server on AWS for Healthcare. This lets customers quickly deploy Tableau Server on AWS in a manner that is preconfigured with common security and compliance controls, such as encryption at-rest and in-transit, and support their compliance objectives out of the box. The Quick Start comes with a jointly authored security controls reference describing how different parts of the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules apply to AWS and Tableau.

Precision medicine relies on the aggregate of many tests to advance healthcare and genome sequencing is one such test that is gaining adoption throughout healthcare. Understanding a patient’s genetic predisposition to different diseases is fundamental to establishing a medical risk baseline. Two of our AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners, DNAnexus and Edico Genome, are working together to advance the principles of precision medicine, and are already changing lives through genomics.

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect at AWS This past week, my colleague, Angel Pizarro, and I published a four-part blog series on the AWS Compute Blog that describes how you can build batch genomics workflows on AWS. This approach can be generalized to any type of batch workflow, such […]

By Aaron Friedman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences I love working with Healthcare Competency Partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) as they deliver solutions that meaningfully impact lives. Whether building SaaS solutions on AWS tackling problems like electronic health records, or offering platforms designed to achieve HIPAA compliance for customers, […]

By Aaron Friedman and Dario Rivera. Aaron is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect with AWS. Dario is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions Architect with AWS.  Changing lives for the better through technology is one of the most compelling reasons why both of us decided to focus our careers on merging software […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Over this past week, we’ve seen how many of our Healthcare and Life Sciences Partners architect compliant workloads on AWS (and these were just a couple of highlights from our Healthcare and Life Sciences Competency Partner base!). I’m continuously impressed […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare & Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services When I survey our Healthcare and Life Sciences Partners, one of the common competencies I see is a great foundation in DevOps best practices. By building software in an automated and traceable manner, you are able to more easily determine […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare & Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services An individual’s relationship with his or her doctor and caregivers is of utmost importance – especially when serious health problems arise. Yet patients can easily end up feeling like they are just a number, rather than an important customer, as […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services At AWS re:Invent 2016, we hosted our first healthcare pre-day and heard from many of our healthcare-focused APN Partners doing outstanding work on the AWS Cloud. Workloads that are subject to stringent HIPAA and HITRUST regulations are regularly running on […]