Skip to main content

AWS Solutions Library

Guidance for Patient 360 on AWS

Overview

This Guidance helps payors offer a centralized medical records system to patients, allowing patients to manage their healthcare information in a consolidated repository. Patients control access to their medical records (including diagnostic activities, such as lab tests and procedures) and can choose which providers are authorized to view their data and the duration that they will have access. Providers will gain a 360-view of the patient’s health and medical history, leading to improved diagnoses and a reduced need for redundant tests or lab procedures. This results in lowered costs for both payors and patients. With the patient’s authorization, the payor can access patient population data to generate personalized wellness tips and business insights for the patient.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

Download the architecture diagram PDF

Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

All services in this architecture emit Amazon CloudWatch events that can be used to monitor the individual components of the design. Changes to the infrastructure may be managed using AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or tools like Terraform. Logs captured by various components may be consolidated into existing services, such as Splunk and DataDog.
Read the Operational Excellence whitepaper

Neptune can only be created in a virtual private cloud (VPC) and can only be accessed from subnets within the VPC. As a best practice, ensure that the data in Neptune is encrypted at rest. Amazon Cognito supports authentication and authorization for patient and providers.
Read the Security whitepaper

Neptune offers high durability due to the separation of compute and storage. Six copies of data are stored across three Availability Zones. Compute instances are created across multiple Availability Zones to ensure high availability. The read replicas in the Neptune cluster are a candidate for failover—if the primary compute instance fails, one of the replicas takes over the role of the primary instance. Neptune and DynamoDB backups may be automated using AWS Backup.
Read the Reliability whitepaper

Neptune decouples compute and storage, allowing customers to select an appropriately-sized compute instance based on the workload. Customers can create up to 15 read replicas and split the read/write load across the primary and replicas, leading to better performance. Neptune has an auto-scaling feature that can increase the database instances in the cluster under heavy load, helping achieve consistent performance from the cluster.
Read the Performance Efficiency whitepaper

With serverless technologies, you provision the exact amount of resources you use. Neptune automatically scales storage, so customers pay only for the storage they use and do not need to maintain excess storage for future growth. We recommend that customers adjust the size of the compute instances for the databases to meet their workload's service level agreement (SLA) and avoid paying for excess capacity.
Read the Cost Optimization whitepaper

Serverless services in this architecture lead to an optimal use of resources. The managed services in the architecture support on-demand scaling, which maximizes resource utilization and reduces the energy needed to run workloads.
Read the Sustainability whitepaper

Disclaimer

The sample code; software libraries; command line tools; proofs of concept; templates; or other related technology (including any of the foregoing that are provided by our personnel) is provided to you as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement, or the relevant written agreement between you and AWS (whichever applies). You should not use this AWS Content in your production accounts, or on production or other critical data. You are responsible for testing, securing, and optimizing the AWS Content, such as sample code, as appropriate for production grade use based on your specific quality control practices and standards. Deploying AWS Content may incur AWS charges for creating or using AWS chargeable resources, such as running Amazon EC2 instances or using Amazon S3 storage.