AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Venkata Kampana
Venkata is a senior solutions architect in the AWS Health and Human Services team and is based in Sacramento, CA. In that role, he helps public sector customers achieve their mission objectives with well-architected solutions on AWS.
Streamlining public health data integration with AWS visual workflows
An open source Amazon Web Services (AWS) visual workflow is transforming how public health departments approach data integration, combining familiar drag-and-drop interfaces with the power and scalability of serverless architecture.
Transforming electronic case reports with generative AI: Unlocking faster public health responses
For years, public health agencies have relied on paper-based case report forms to supplement the electronic laboratory reports (ELRs) they receive for reportable diseases. While ELRs provide positive test results, the accompanying case reports give public health agencies critical clinical, demographic, and risk factor data needed for effective disease investigation and response. However, the sheer volume of COVID-19 cases quickly overwhelmed this manual, paper-based process. Prior to the pandemic, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed standards for an electronic case report (eCR) form that could be automatically sent to public health agencies from providers’ electronic health records (EHRs).