Healthcare & Life Sciences – AWS for Industries

Build a medical image analysis pipeline on Amazon SageMaker using the MONAI framework

Medical imaging has transformed healthcare in a way that allows clinicians to identify diseases, make better diagnosis, and dramatically improve patient outcomes. Digital medical images have...

Creating a Hands-Free Voice Assistant at Houston Methodist with AWS

Hospital systems are dynamic, fast-paced, and challenging environments to manage. There are vastly different areas from emergency departments to walk-in clinics, where seamless, secure, and...

Whitepaper: Genomics Data Transfer, Analytics, and Machine Learning using AWS Services

AWS Genomics has released a new whitepaper, Genomics Data Transfer, Analytics, and Machine Learning using AWS Services, that provides essential information and guidance on how to build a Next...

Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Healthcare Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing...

Simplify Prior Authorization in Healthcare with AWS and HL7 FHIR

Prior authorization is a process to obtain approval from a health insurer or plan that may be required before you get a health care service, treatment plan, prescription drug, or durable medical...

How to build a global, scalable, low-latency, and secure machine learning medical imaging analysis platform on AWS

Introduction It is hard to imagine the future for medical imaging without machine learning (ML) as its central innovation engine. Countless researchers, developers, start-ups, and larger...

Verizon and AWS deliver mobile edge computing to customers in Boston and the Bay Area

Less than a year after Hans Vestberg, Verizon CEO, and Andy Jassy, AWS CEO, took the stage in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to share that 5G mobile edge compute is live for developers...

HCLS Web Day 2020

Enabling efficient patient care using Amazon AI services

Artificial intelligence can speed up the development of new drug development, be a bridge to personalized medicine using the information of our genomes, and help address the problem of a chronic...

Building multilingual SMS chatbot campaigns to support COVID-19 patients remotely

The expansion of laboratory tests for COVID-19 have provided health systems with tools to screen for the coronavirus in their community. While some patients have tested positive for COVID-19 and...

Predicting all-cause patient readmission risk using AWS data lake and machine learning

It’s no secret that hospital readmissions impact patient outcomes and the financial health of healthcare providers globally. Specifically in the United States, the Agency for Healthcare Research...

Leveraging healthcare chatbots at your digital front door

Innovations in industries like retail, communication, transportation, and entertainment, have forever changed customer expectations. Information and services can now be accessed immediately from...

NYC COVID-19 Rapid Response Coalition helps MetroPlus Health Plan partner to address the health and social needs of thousands at risk

With COVID-19 continuing to impact citizens globally, many individuals have been required to shelter-in-place to reduce the spread of the virus. While this has reduced the exposure risk for...

Global OHDSI COVID-19 Study-A-Thon Produces Important Insights

What happens when a pandemic cancels your annual scientific meeting? You improvise. The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI, pronounced “odyssey”) community planned to...

How natural language processing can uncover value from unreachable data in the modern medical ecosystem

The Dark Data Problem Up to 80% of your organization’s medical patient data is untapped, undervalued, or unused Imagine walking into a physician’s office for a checkup. As you describe some pain...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Uses Analytics in the Fight Against Disease

Bristol-Myers Squibb CIO Paul von Autenried and his team are unlocking digital capabilities, increasing computing capacity, leveraging artificial intelligence and supporting digital health initiatives

Wired: Machine Learning is Transforming Drug Discovery at AstraZeneca

The goal of AstraZeneca’s pilot project is to use its AWS-built model across 2,000 tissue samples to identify key kidney features reliably and reproducibly.

Wired: Celgene Advances Pharma Research and Discovery with the Help of AI

Instead of worrying about wasting time and chasing false leads, Celgene scientists are coming up with innovations that wouldn’t have been possible before—and in record time.

Case Study: Allergen

Open Science, a model of research and development, defines Allergan’s approach to identifying and developing ideas and innovation to improve patient care.