Tag: #healthcare

Because healthcare organizations depend on their medical images to help improve patient outcomes, being able to securely store and retrieve those images reliably and quickly is crucial. Organizations face an increasing challenge to support a durable storage solution as image stores grow into hundreds of terabytes, and in some cases, petabytes. With the increasing number of ransomware […]

Last year, we announced Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to securely store, transform, query, analyze, and share health data in the cloud, at petabyte scale. We launched HealthLake to address one of the key challenges that the health industry – from healthcare payers to life […]

Healthcare and life science organizations are moving towards digital transformation to decrease the cost of care, improve collaboration, make data-driven clinical and operational decisions, and enable faster development of new therapeutics and treatment paths. Identifying the right cloud technology to reach these goals can be challenging, and many organizations lack the internal resourcing and expertise […]

This blog was co-authored by Angus McAllister, Product Owner of Open Source Healthcare Interoperability at AWS, and Art Huston, Engineering Manager at Abacus Insights. In March 2019, the US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services published the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, requiring healthcare providers and payors to ensure patients have access to their […]

About half the world’s population has no access to basic healthcare. There are a number of reasons for this, including poverty, language barriers, and geography. Even in the United States, millions of people—particularly in rural areas—live more than 30 minutes away from the nearest hospital. This makes it difficult for them to get critical care […]

Healthcare has a long tradition of providing telehealth and telemedicine solutions, but COVID-19 has accelerated the practice into the future. Moving from convenience to necessity, modern telehealth solutions have saved countless lives during the worst pandemic of our generation. Organizations are now moving beyond telehealth deployment to sustainable, long term practices. Telehealth today offers an […]

The COVID-19 pandemic response in 2020 and 2021 placed added stress on healthcare systems and clinicians. Straightforward operational tasks—such as entering the hospital, locating and tracking personal protective equipment (PPE), answering call center inquiries, and maintaining appropriate staffing—became system challenges in a rapidly changing environment. Clinicians were tasked with caring for large numbers of critically […]

Authored by Bill Anderson, Chairman and CEO at MEDHOST. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post.  MEDHOST has been providing enterprise information technology systems to full-service community hospitals for more than 35 years. In addition to […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Authored by Chris Gervais, Chief Technology Officer at Kyruus. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post.  The last few months have […]

In clinical research studies conducted by the Pharmaceutical industry, electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOAs) help clinical researchers better understand the effectiveness of the research treatment intervention for research patients. One type of eCOA measure is electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs): Health outcome data reported directly by the research patient, typically collected on handheld mobile devices, tablets, or computers. […]