Category: Healthcare

The Australian Epilepsy Project (AEP) is transforming epilepsy diagnosis and care across Australia. The AEP team faced a daunting challenge: processing and analyzing 20-hour magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) workflows for participants and clinicians scattered across the country. Their solution—a serverless, container-orchestrated neuroimaging pipeline on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—has accelerated the delivery of life-changing results to clinicians and patients while reducing costs by over 35%.

Healthcare organizations face pressure to innovate rapidly while managing rising costs, addressing workforce shortages, and navigating complex regulatory requirements. At the same time, they must modernize legacy systems, improve patient outcomes, and enhance operational efficiency—all while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. The traditional procurement process for healthcare technology has been a significant barrier to innovation. Lengthy contract negotiations, complex legal reviews, and siloed purchasing decisions can delay critical technology deployments by months or years. In an industry where timing can directly impact patient outcomes, this friction impedes necessary progress. AWS Marketplace is helping change this reality.

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.

Pearson Clinical Assessments, a leader in psychological and educational testing, saw an opportunity to use cloud technology to transform how clinicians assess and support students. Working with AWS, Pearson developed two solutions: the Digital Assessment Library for Schools (DALS) and Revibe, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable technology designed to enhance focus and attention. The goal was clear: to help time-pressed clinicians work efficiently while still serving each student as an individual.

The government of La Rioja—through its Fundación Rioja Salud—is revolutionizing healthcare delivery in Spain by building PASCAL, a comprehensive health data lake. PASCAL leverages AWS cloud infrastructure to enable predictive, participative, preventive, personalized, and precision medicine—the five Ps of modern healthcare.

Timely access to medical imaging can mean the difference between early detection and delayed treatment. In Poland, healthcare technology company Radpoint has revolutionized how radiologists work and how patients receive care by building a comprehensive cloud-based medical imaging platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Their solution demonstrates how cloud technology can transform healthcare delivery while maintaining the highest security standards.

In collaboration with AWS, Strategic Solutions Group LLC (SSG) successfully developed Compass, an AI-powered report builder that transforms how public health officials’ access and analyze critical data. Read this post to learn more.

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to build effective laboratory systems in the US and globally, representing state and local governmental health labs that monitor and detect public health threats. In 2024, APHL successfully applied for the AWS invite-only category of the AWS Imagine Grant, the Children’s Health Innovation Award. Working with their healthcare technology partner Ruvos, APHL received grant funding that included both cash and AWS credits to advance Detor, an electronic test order and result (ETOR) solution developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The new AWS whitepaper “Health Data Marketplace: Driving Data Strategy in Multi-Cloud Health Systems” introduces Health Data Marketplaces as a health data strategy and a fresh architectural approach designed to help healthcare organizations decouple value creation from operational complexity. The Health Data Marketplace concept enables a “search, shop, and serve” experience for datasets, insights, and AI applications—allowing clinicians, researchers, regulators, and life sciences partners to collaborate on trusted data assets across multiple clouds.

Founded in 1990, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is the first and largest global foundation focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The IMF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure by focusing on four key areas: research, education, support, and advocacy. In September 2024, the IMF launched Myelo—an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant built using AWS and Max.AI, developed by ZS Associates. This blog post highlights Myelo’s capabilities to provide myeloma patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals a trustworthy, round-the-clock source of information that is accessible from anywhere in the world, grounded in empathy, and can communicate in multiple languages.