AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Gemma McCarthy
Gemma McCarthy is a healthcare client manager in the UK public sector organisation within Amazon Web Services (AWS). She has worked with the UK National Health Service (NHS) for over five years, advising customers on their information technology decisions to improve patient outcomes, accelerate their digital transformation, and meet critical care objectives.
Breaking down patient data silos in UK healthcare with serverless cloud technology
Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) looks after the health and social care needs of a population of 1.8 million citizens across the North West of the UK. One of the main goals of the ICS is to work collaboratively with all partners involved in care delivery for their geography. To this end, the ICS recognized that using cloud technologies allows for better data sharing to improve patient outcomes.
One small team created a cloud-based predictive modeling solution to improve healthcare services in the UK
How do you predict and prepare for your citizens’ health and wellness needs during the COVID-19 pandemic? Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) quickly scaled a platform on AWS to support the 1.8 million people in their region with Nexus Intelligence, an interactive health intelligence application with a suite of predictive models against various measures of need and health outcomes. Nexus Intelligence not only supported the ICS response to the pandemic, but is expected to help reconfigure and re-invest in services to improve the health and well-being of the population and reduce health inequalities.