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Stefan Dittforth

Author: Stefan Dittforth

Stefan is a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He enjoys developing ideas to solve the many challenges the healthcare industry faces. One by one. When not burning his fingers on the soldering iron in a personal electronics project, you might find him enjoying lakes and mountains in the Bavarian countryside.

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How to use AWS Wickr to enable healthcare workers to interact with generative AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration service with features designed to keep internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. In this post, we present an architecture that uses the Wickr messaging solution for protected communication with a generative AI backend system, which uses an existing open source project: the AWS GenAI Chatbot. Read this post to learn more.

How KHUH built a long-term storage solution for medical image data with AWS

King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH) and Bahrain Oncology Center is a 600-bed-hospital in Bahrain. Over the years, KHUH faced constraints with exponential growth of their on-premise storage needs, particularly with the medical images stored by their picture archiving and communication system (PACS). KHUH turned to AWS to develop a cost- and time-effective long-term storage solution, without making changes to their existing PACS, that reduced storage costs by 40%.