AWS for Health
AWS is the trusted technology and innovation partner to the global healthcare and life sciences industry, providing unmatched reliability, security, and data privacy.
What's New
Healthcare and life science organizations are reinventing how they collaborate, make data driven clinical and operational decisions, enable precision medicine, and decrease the cost of care.
Introducing AWS for Health, an offering of AWS services and AWS Partner Network solutions used by thousands of healthcare and life sciences customers globally. AWS for Health provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help organizations increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of health data, and develop more personalized approaches to therapeutic development and care.
Customers innovating and transforming the future of health with AWS
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Rush
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Read the blog post »Rush University Medical Center is an academic medical center leading the way in developing innovative and often life-saving treatments. It is a thriving center for basic and clinical research, with physicians and scientists involved in hundreds of research projects developing and testing the effectiveness and safety of new therapies and medical devices.
“We’ve partnered with AWS to harness disparate health data from across Chicago’s hospitals to create holistic insights to help guide when and where and to whom care is needed for. With Amazon HealthLake and partner solutions from AWS for Health, Rush is able to focus less on building technology to achieve this and focus more on our mission to personalize care and improve health equity for individuals that we serve.”
Bala Hota, MD, Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer - Rush University Medical Center
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Moderna
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Learn more »Moderna is a biotech company pioneering a new class of mRNA medicines. To support its digital, data-driven operations, Moderna builds on AWS to reduce the time and cost of bringing life-saving therapies to market. Moderna has demonstrated the power of its cloud-based strategy in the speed with which it delivered its highly effective COVID-19 vaccine and its capacity to scale production globally.
"The science behind mRNA medicines is advancing at a rapid pace, and building Moderna’s technology platform on AWS gives our scientists the insights, agility, and security they need to continue to lead in the industry.”
Stephane Bancel, CEO - Moderna
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Genomics England
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Watch the video »The Department of Health established Genomics England (GEL) to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients with rare diseases. Upon successful completion of the project, GEL transitioned from project to platform, using AWS to give researchers intelligent tools and secure access to these massive datasets to help them advance personalized, predictive, and preventative genomics healthcare.
"We knew that putting the data generated from the 100,000 Genome Project into the hands of the research community would play a vital role in accelerating scientific breakthroughs, and we’re working to migrate our research and clinical tools, alongside our data to the AWS Cloud to do just that. By hosting on AWS, we can democratize access to our data. All researchers need is a small budget to fund compute costs and access to a compute.”
Pete Sinden, CIO - Genomics England
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CHOC
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Read the case study »Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, CHOC regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art hospital, primary and specialty care clinics and four centers of excellence. CHOC uses predictive analytics tools built on Amazon Web Services to help improve care, support advanced clinical decision-making, and save lives.
“Using AWS for Health has enabled us to provide the highest quality and most advanced care in a safe environment for our kiddos and create an experience that delights our providers and associates.”
Adam Gold, CTO - CHOC
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Grail
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Watch the video »GRAIL, a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured, utilizes cutting edge genomics and machine learning technology powered by AWS to identify the presence of cancer by looking at DNA fragments that cancer cells shed into the bloodstream.
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Cambia Health Solutions
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Read the case study »Cambia Health Solutions, a total health solutions company and the parent company of six regional health plans, is committed to making healthcare technology better serve individuals. Using AWS, Cambia developed Journi, a digital all-in-one health solution guided by data-driven intelligence and human expertise, to help health plan members make informed decisions about their health and well-being.
"We’ve built a service on AWS that enables us not only to build products that create an intuitive experience but also to integrate third parties that are not built on our stack. On AWS, the low-cost threshold, the scalability, and the ability to stage solutions very quickly helped us adopt a game-changing culture of speed and innovation.”
Laurent Rotival, Senior Vice President of Strategic Technology Solutions & Chief Information Officer - Cambia Health Solutions
Explore AWS for Health solutions
Healthcare Solutions
Manage costs, better understand patient populations, gain critical insights from data, and personalize the healthcare experience.
Biopharma Solutions
Modernize every stage of the value chain to bring advanced therapeutics to market faster.
Genomics Solutions
Accelerate scientific discoveries, power business agility, and support security and compliance across the genomics workflow.
AWS empowers healthcare & life sciences
Healthcare and life science organizations of all sizes and levels of technical expertise can use purpose-built services and solutions to increase their pace of innovation, decrease costs, improve operational and clinical efficiency, and ultimately, enhance patient care.
Unlock the potential of science and health data with the growing portfolio of health services like Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and Amazon Transcribe Medical.
Discover purpose-built health solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners with technical expertise and proven customer success.
Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage solutions on AWS.
Dedicated healthcare and life science industry specialists and Professional Service teams can support digital transformation and innovation programs.
AWS health leaders have an average of 18 years’ experience in the industry, leading large-scale initiatives in areas like population health, government/public health, genomics, and therapeutic development and commercialization.
For more than 15 years, organizations have leveraged AWS secure infrastructure and robust suite of tools to raise their security posture and comply with regulations. AWS offers more than 130 HIPAA-eligible services and certifications for industry-relevant global IT and compliance standards, including support for GDPR, HITRUST, GDPR, ENS High, HDS, C5, among others.
By leveraging 2x more Regions with multiple Availability Zones than the next largest cloud provider, health organizations can trust and benefit from the scale and reliability of the AWS Cloud.
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Discover purpose-built health solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS. Access AWS Marketplace and explore a curated digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, deploy, and manage health solutions on AWS.
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Cerner
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"Clients continue to seek embedded workflow tools that will improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes. Cerner technology, in collaboration with AWS, provides strategic levers that help enable these outcomes through enhanced interoperability and data management that will amplify better, smarter care."
Jerome Labat, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer - Cerner -
Change
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“Our collaboration with AWS is broad and continues to expand, enabling us to expedite innovation and bring exceptional value to our customers by leveraging innovative operational efficiencies within our infrastructure to maximize the performance of our products and ultimately enable better patient outcomes. Our interconnected position at the center of healthcare allows us to serve as a catalyst for greater collaboration on the path to value-based and consumer-centric care. The AWS for Health initiative aligns with our mission to create a stronger and more efficient healthcare system, drive digital transformation, and accelerate the journey toward improved lives and healthier communities.”
Matt Spragins, Vice President, Strategic Technology Partnerships - Change Healthcare
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Deloitte
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"Deloitte and AWS bring a holistic approach to our clients’ business transformations. Our AWS-based business solutions, built on a scalable cloud platform, create the ability to connect the healthcare ecosystem and provide data-driven insights for our clients’ leadership to rapidly capture meaningful, measurable value for their businesses. We’re tackling the industry’s biggest challenges together with our industry leading ConvergeHEALTH platforms, transformation accelerators, and deep industry expertise."
Ryan Hoffmeister, Managing Director and COO, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte -
Philips
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"With its broad set of cloud services, global reach, strong security tools, and unlimited scalability, AWS helps us differentiate the Philips HealthSuite platform by enabling us to provide exceptional data security and privacy off the shelf for our customers around the world. In this capacity, Philips furthers its commitment to optimizing workflows that put the patient front and center and turn the most defining moments in healthcare into a clear care pathway with predictable outcomes tailored for every patient.”
Dale Wiggins, Philips HealthSuite platform, Vice President and General Manager - Philips
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Illumina
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“Genomics - next-generation sequencing (NGS) in particular - are the foundation for personalized medicine. The ability to rapidly and inexpensively sequence entire genomes in individuals and populations drives innovations: non-invasive pregnancy testing, rare disease diagnoses, advanced tumor testing, and many others. For the last decade, we've collaborated with AWS to provide secure and scalable tools and services to researchers around the globe to power these innovations. The AWS for Health initiative supports our mission of improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome.”
Susan Tousi, Chief Commercial Officer - Illumina
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DNAnexus
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"DNAnexus has a longstanding collaboration with AWS, supporting the diverse scientific aims of researchers worldwide, in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Government, and Academia in over 48 countries, and serves the world’s top diagnostics and pharmaceutical companies as well as national research initiatives. Building on the scalable and reliable AWS infrastructure, the DNAnexus dynamic platform for precision medicine makes it easy to securely access, analyze, and derive value from the world’s complex biomedical data—thereby democratizing and accelerating science."
John Ellithorpe, PhD, President - DNAnexus
