AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Melissa Ravanini
Melissa Ravanini is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She focuses on healthcare customers, particularly nonprofits. Melissa supports clients on their journey to the cloud and has worked on genome processing projects, telemedicine, data lakes, blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence, PACs / RIS, HIS, and more.
How AWS and blockchain make it possible to meet the challenges of interoperability in healthcare
Health information is generally disorganized, unstructured, and stored in various formats, making it impractical to trace patient history and promote the exchange of information on a national scale with other health professionals. A solution to this issue is the creation of a unique patient registry, which can be defined as a repository of retrospective, current, and prospective information of the patient in digital format. The main objective of this registry is to promote integrated, continuous, efficient, quality health care. In addition, the registry needs to be accessible and available to different health institutions. When building these registries, it’s necessary to use standards to define not only how the information is structured, but also how it can be retrieved and shared among the different HIS in a safe, scalable, cost-efficient way. This can be done using blockchain.