Category: Healthcare

Even in this digital age, when healthcare systems are building out digital front doors, many providers require patients to fill out paper forms or questionnaires in writing at the time of their appointment. Additionally, patients bring pre-filled paper forms containing text from another provider which require processing. Back-office staff are expected to read the forms […]

Blog guest authored by Charlie Clarke, Yanni Pandelidis, and Bill Robinson from hc1 A back-office challenge between provider networks and diagnostic testing organizations is the sharing of common service, test, and procedure names and codes. Historically, different organizations have had their own naming and coding catalog, also referred to as a compendium. The inconsistent representations […]

by Sabina Joseph, Director, ISV Partnerships at AWS and Steven Martin, EVP, Enterprise Technology at Change Healthcare Change Healthcare [NASDAQ: CHNG] sits at the intersection between payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. A trusted technology partner to the healthcare industry, Change Healthcare is uniquely positioned to make an impact with a portfolio of products and services […]

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, HIMSS22 will take place in Orlando, March 15-17, and also features a separate virtual event, HIMSS22 Digital, running in parallel to the in-person conference. To help […]

The AWS Healthcare Team is excited about the upcoming ViVE event in Miami on March 6-9. ViVE is a new event that brings together two industry leaders, CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) and HLTH, to address the convergence of technology, leadership, and business transformation in healthcare. AWS for Healthcare is featuring multiple AWS […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrated 10 years of AWS re:Invent. During that time, many customers have taken the re:Invent stage to share their stories and details of exciting innovations. To mark the occasion, here’s a look back at 10 memorable moments from a decade of re:Invent and what this year’s customer keynote speakers shared on […]

For some, 2021 was definitely a year to forget and for others it was filled with moments to remember. COVID-19 impacted every aspect of life, but for health organizations, like hospitals, life sciences companies, and genomics research organizations, 2021 was a year of monumental change, and that change centered around the patient. With a shared […]

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 […]