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Using Amazon Personalize to find the right doctor without a data scientist

Using Amazon Personalize to find the right doctor without a data scientist

Every day our digital experiences are highly infused with personalizations. Yet, the patient and clinical experience in healthcare remains mostly unaffected. We’ll show what a modern digital patient experience could look like, in which the patient gets recommended the right doctor or specialist for a particular illness based on the patient’s symptoms. Introduction Despite recent […]

Fast queries of scRNAseq datasets with Amazon Athena

Fast queries of scRNAseq datasets with Amazon Athena

Single cell RNA sequencing data has a growing role in disease research for finding both potential genetic factors and paths to new treatments. An important component of this process involves building maps of sequencing data with dimensionality reduction tools and querying specific subsets for visualization, but this can be slow due to the size of […]

Siemens Healthineers Ultrasound launches Remote Services platform on AWS

Siemens Healthineers Ultrasound launches Remote Services platform on AWS

Blog is guest authored by Salim Abdul, Remote Services Product Owner at Siemens Healthineers Ultrasound Large, distributed collections of medical imaging devices like ultrasound systems can be challenging. Securing remote connectivity of the devices, to manage the fleet residing within the hospital, clinic and other locations can help service engineers diagnose and troubleshoot issues—avoiding delays […]

Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 binding affinities using Yasara simulations on AWS

Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 binding affinities using Yasara simulations on AWS

Blog guest authored by Dr. Vedat Durmaz of Innophore In 2021, Innophore, a structural bioinformatics startup company aiming at computational enzyme and drug discovery, started the virus.watch project in cooperation with the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative. The principal goal of this project is the implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system for emerging drug and […]

GxP Data Integrity when using AWS Services

GxP Data Integrity when using AWS Services

Data is at the heart of any modern pharmaceutical company throughout every stage of the value chain. Understandably, data is also central to industry regulations and continues to be one of the main topics during FDA inspections. However, questions still arise around how to meet data integrity requirements when operating in the cloud. Regulatory requirements […]

Advance pediatric care using Amazon HealthLake for scalable FHIR-based data analytics

Advance pediatric care using Amazon HealthLake for scalable FHIR-based data analytics

Blog is guest authored by Meen Chul Kim from Children’s Hospital at Philadelphia The ability to quickly and securely share data is a critical success factor for researchers around the world working to find cures for childhood illnesses. Recognizing an opportunity to accelerate this important work, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) partnered with Amazon HealthLake […]

Top 5 Cloud Strengths and Areas Where Companies Can Improve

Top 5 Cloud Strengths and Areas Where Companies Can Improve

In recent years, cloud technology has been embraced as an enabler of value creation, helping improve enterprise resilience, innovation speed and scalability without the need for large capital expenditures and even reducing ongoing operational costs. Fortune 500 pharma and MedTech companies could gain by 2030, $10-15 billion in improved EBITDA run rates and $25-30 billion […]

Common techniques to detect PHI and PII data using AWS Services

Common techniques to detect PHI and PII data using AWS Services

Identifying sensitive data such as protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) and taking appropriate action to safeguard it, is an important step to achieve Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry vertical. There are a few different options on how to do this on […]

Policymakers: Cloud can Accelerate Life Sciences Innovation

Policymakers: Cloud can Accelerate Life Sciences Innovation

U.S. policymakers have increasingly embraced the promise of cloud to discover new cures, accelerate biomedical innovation, and spur development of life-saving medical technologies. With the growing adoption of the cloud in life sciences, cloud use can help product developers and regulators get data more quickly and enable manufacturers to meet and exceed their compliance requirements. […]