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Category: Artificial Intelligence

Four ways Amazon Quick Suite can help State Medicaid Agency APD authors

Four ways Amazon Quick Suite can help State Medicaid Agency APD authors

What if state Medicaid agencies could streamline their federal funding requests and avoid costly delays that put critical IT modernization projects at risk? An Advance Planning Document (APD) is the formal mechanism through which states request federal funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support Medicaid technology projects. These complex documents […]

Too rare for care How AI is helping solve the rare disease paradox

Too rare for care: How AI is helping solve the rare disease paradox

With a smartphone, mGene’s AI technology can analyze facial features to identify subtle indications of genetic syndromes It’s one of medicine’s tragic paradoxes that, collectively, rare diseases have significant impact on human health. The World Health Organization defines conditions affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 people as rare, and it’s estimated that over 300 million […]

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City of Virginia Beach launches AI-powered search assistant to transform citizen access to information

Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner Allwyn, the city of Virginia Beach launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational search assistant on its public website that helps residents and visitors find answers in plain language, without having to hunt through search results.

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Democratizing climate data science: How Columbia University’s LEAP center built AutoClimDS on AWS

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.

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Accessing commercial AI from AWS GovCloud (US) for your CJIS workloads

Justice and Public Safety organizations require access to the latest foundation models (FMs) available through Amazon Bedrock for mission-critical AI implementations. This post aids with your evaluation of important CJIS compliance considerations that JPS organizations must address when implementing these architectures.

AWS social impact awards accelerate innovation at Columbia

Every year, an estimated 3 million Americans receive home healthcare services. These programs often improve health outcomes, but they also carry risks. Patients may fall, miss medications, or face complications that lead to hospitalization. Researchers at Columbia University’s School of Nursing are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) could help predict and prevent such events.

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How the U.S. Department of the Treasury is using a human-centered approach to scale AI innovation

At the 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Federal AI Conference in Virginia, Paras Malik, the Chief AI Officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, joined AWS Global Head of Financial Innovation Michael Greenwald to share how Treasury is taking a human-centered approach to the use of AI tools. Their conversation highlighted lessons other agencies can apply as they explore promoting AI leadership at scale.

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Architecting secure AI sandboxes in AWS GovCloud (US)

Organizations operating in AWS GovCloud (US) might require alternative architectural approaches, depending on service availability in their target Region. This post presents an architecture that’s deployable on AWS GovCloud (US) for secure generative AI experimentation using Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon Bedrock.