Modernize across the entire continuum of care to optimize costs, improve performance, and automate core processes with AWS for Healthcare.
What's New — Amazon HealthLake Imaging
Store, access, and analyze medical images in the cloud at petabyte scale
Powering innovations with AWS for Healthcare
A reliable, performant clinical system is the foundation of patient-centric care. With AWS and AWS Partner solutions, healthcare organizations can modernize their clinical systems, freeing clinicians of administrative burdens and allowing them to focus on delivering the best overall experiences for their patients.
Clinical systems use cases
Electronic Health Records
AWS works closely with Electronic Health Records (EHR) to accelerate innovation around clinical, financial and patient applications to make healthcare a more personal experience—all in an environment that embraces security, privacy and compliance. Go to Solutions Library.
AWS solutions
Solution: HIPAA on AWS
This Quick Start is for people in the healthcare industry who want to to run workloads in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud within the scope of the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automatically deploy the environment and configure AWS resources.
Guidance: Epic on AWS
Migrating Epic workloads to AWS enables healthcare organizations to focus on improving outcomes for the patients and communities they serve by utilizing the complementary AWS services that enhance clinician, patient, and employee experiences.
Featured customers
Tufts Medicine is migrating its entire digital healthcare ecosystem to create a digital platform on AWS. This platform consists of the infrastructure for Epic, as well as a complex integration of more than 300 supporting healthcare and business applications.
Stand-alone rural hospital CalvertHealth improves MEDITECH electronic health records system resilience and shortens its recovery time by 97 percent by using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Backup, preventing the revenue loss and reputation damage that could accrue from a lengthy disaster recovery.
MEDHOST provides cloud-based, multi-tenant information technology systems to rural community hospitals at an affordable price. Working with AWS, MEDHOST is helping healthcare organizations leverage new innovations such as AI and transcription services to help with tasks like ambient listening.
Featured partner solutions
“With AWS we’ve been able to migrate multiple Electronic Patient Record solutions (EPR) to the cloud, which increases the security, performance and reliability for our hospital customers, and allows us to offer EPR solutions as a managed service."
"Philips and AWS are working together to accelerate the migration of Tasy customers from our on-premises solution to our HealthSuite platform cloud solution."
By running its business-critical applications on AWS, NextGen Healthcare has improved performance and can focus on enhancing the patient care experience.
Featured consulting partners
AWS Marketplace can help organizations innovate on their current EHR system, incorporating technology to reduce administrative burden and improve clinician experience.
Medical Imaging
Make medical images an asset by addressing fluctuating storage needs, lowering total costs, and leveraging AI/ML to speed diagnoses. AWS offers services and solutions with dynamic, scalable capacity for viewing, storing, and archiving petabytes of medical imaging data.
AWS services & solutions
Service: Amazon HealthLake Imaging
With HealthLake Imaging, healthcare providers and their software partners can run their medical imaging applications in the cloud to increase performance while also reducing infrastructure costs. HealthLake Imaging helps providers reduce the total cost of medical imaging storage up to 40% by running their medical imaging applications from a single, authoritative copy of patient imaging data in the cloud. HealthLake Imaging enables access to medical imaging data with sub-second image retrieval latencies at scale powered by cloud-native APIs and applications from AWS partners.
Guidance: Medical imaging on AWS
AWS empowers radiologists, health systems, and research teams to increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of imaging data, develop more personalized approaches to care delivery, and improve cost and operational efficiency. AWS and AWS partners offer solutions that migrate imaging to the cloud to lower costs amidst fluctuating storage needs, strengthen data accessibility, and facilitate compliance—driving faster insights and better value.
Featured customers
UC San Diego Health works with AWS to help improve COVID-19 screening, creating a solution that uses machine learning to detect pneumonia in X-ray images and AI to read the images in a secure cloud environment. In just 10 days, the team integrates the solution with clinical workflows to provide critical information at the point of care.
Radboud University Medical Center, a public research institution in the Netherlands, runs the Grand Challenge, which is an online platform for end-to-end development of machine learning solutions in biomedical imaging. As the number of users of the Grand Challenge platform grows, Radbound works with AWS to migrate to the cloud in just two months and increased global accessibility using AWS machine learning services.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison and GE Healthcare builds Imaging Protocol Manager on AWS. The solution remotely standardizes imaging device protocols, delivering consistent image quality and optimal patient care.
Featured partner solutions
"Using AWS, we can easily scale our medical-image management platform to meet the needs of healthcare customers worldwide. It was very easy to deploy and be operational globally."
"By running the GE Health Cloud on AWS, we are able to collect, store, process, and provide access to data from a diverse and global set of medical devices starting with imaging. Healthcare providers can use our cloud apps to share this data and collaborate more easily."
"Philips and AWS are working together to provide a cost-effective storage solution that has allowed us to migrate more than 45PB of imaging data from in hospital data centers to the cloud, resulting in lower costs and higher availability for our PACS customers."
"Proscia, in collaboration with AWS, is well-suited to handle the massive volume of data contained in pathology images, as it enables organizations to host growing workloads in a cost-effective way. Additionally, we offer out-of-the-box features to ensure the reliability, security, and access management required for managing sensitive healthcare information."
Featured consulting partners
Clinical Genomics
With insights from a patient’s genetic data, clinicians can use precision medicine tools to make more informed diagnoses and more effective treatment decisions faster. AWS delivers the massive compute power and storage space needed to make Genomics a part of everyday healthcare.
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Solution: HIPAA on AWS
AWS enables covered entities and their business associates subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to use the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information.
Featured customers
GRAIL uses AWS to pioneer early-stage cancer testing using machine learning for more than 50 cancer types.
Genetic testing provider Myriad Genetics uses AWS to quickly and accurately process enormous amounts of sequencing data in its bioinformatics and machine learning pipelines as it runs clinical testing at scale.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital processes compute-intensive clinical genomics data securely and at scale to diagnose and treat patients as it also works toward a greater understanding of human genomics.
Featured partner solutions
“DNAnexus Titan blends the scalability of AWS with a tailor made experience designed for large-scale genomic analyses. Combined with clinical information top pharma companies have been able to annotate variants and their functional consequences to the genome to identify new drug targets or reposition compounds in their drug portfolio.”
“The Seven Bridges platform and Seven Bridges analysis tools such as GRAF™ and ARIA™ rely on the flexibility and scalability of AWS to enable researchers to take advantage of massive repositories of genomic and phenotypic data — which have the potential to reveal transformative insights into the underpinnings of disease, novel therapeutic approaches and in silico disease models."
"Roche’s collaboration with AWS in support of NAVIFY Mutation Profiler enables us to easily provide content updates and efficiently manage the data workflow in a secure environment that values the safety of patient data"
Featured consulting partners
The DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform by Illumina enables ultra-rapid analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data for large data sets, such as whole genomes, exomes, and genes/panels. The analysis includes mapping, aligning, sorting, duplicate marking, small variant calling, and more.
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