Your data is the key to improved outcomes. Let AWS help you unlock your healthcare data to drive insights that matter.
Discover how leading healthcare organizations are revolutionizing their EHR systems with cloud technology.
The new KLAS Research, Epic in the Public Cloud 2024 report reveals compelling benefits of hosting EHR on AWS, including improvements in performance, reliability, and scalability.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the trusted healthcare cloud provider since 2009 enables healthcare organizations to derive actionable insights from complex data -whether clinical, imaging, or social—to drive innovation, improve patient care, and achieve greater operational efficiencies.
With purpose-built health services, enterprise-grade security and privacy, a choice of leading foundation models, and the most performant, low-cost infrastructure, healthcare organizations trust AWS to provide the data and tools they need to connect their organization and accelerate generative AI-powered innovations that dramatically improve time to diagnosis and overall cost and quality of patient care.
Trust is job zero
When it comes to your healthcare data, resilience and security are critical. Identify, mitigate, and manage potential risks and quickly recover applications and data after an outage or disaster.
AWS has more than 146 HIPAA-eligible services and holds certifications for global compliance standards, like HITRUST CSF.
AWS’ global infrastructure design provides at least 3 Availability Zones in every AWS Region, allowing for highly available infrastructure deployment.
Learn more about AWS' security and Healthcare compliance programs.
AWS makes it easier to access the services, data, models, and secure infrastructure needed to scale generative AI across your organization. Explore the Generative AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences resource hub.
AWS enables healthcare organizations to discover and select the best offerings to address their unique business needs and accelerate time-to-value through the AWS Partner Network and AWS Marketplace.
Built for breakthroughs: AWS for Healthcare
Purpose-built services and solutions for healthcare organizations to transform their business, reduce clinician burden, and improve patient outcomes, all while maintaining security and privacy.
Clinical Systems
Modernize your clinical systems, free clinicians of administrative burdens and allow them to focus on delivering the best overall experiences for your patients - while also controlling costs.
AWS helps healthcare organizations run mission critical clinical applications like electronic health records (EHRs) and picture archive communications systems (PACS) in the cloud, combined with unmatched reliability, security, and data privacy.
Tufts Medicine was able to update 3,900 assets with no downtime, reduce costs by 60%, and increase quality of care.
NSW Health partnered with AWS to create a single digital patient record for better care delivery.
Key Use Cases
Electronic Health Records
AWS works closely with EHRs to accelerate innovation around clinical, operational, and patient applications to make healthcare a more personal experience—all in an environment that embraces security, privacy and compliance.
Medical Imaging
AWS offers services and solutions with dynamic, scalable capacity for viewing, storing, and archiving petabytes of medical imaging data to make medical images an asset while addressing fluctuating storage needs, lowering total costs, and leveraging AI/ML to speed diagnoses.
Clinical Genomics
From research to the point of care, the unified analysis of various forms of medical and omics data is helping researchers and clinicians generate new insights and offer more personalized care.
Service Spotlight
Epic on AWS
Leverage AWS services to manage Epic EHR workloads and automate manual security tasks, inheriting comprehensive security and compliance controls in the AWS cloud.
AWS HealthLake
Securely unify health data to power real-time applications, unlock AI-powered insights, while meeting regulatory requirements with a scalable, fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service.
AWS HealthImaging
Store, analyze, and share medical images and scale modern medical imaging applications with sub-second access to petabyte-scale data
AWS HealthOmics
Accelerate bioinformatics and drug discovery breakthroughs with managed workflows and storage at massive scale.
Machine Learning and Generative AI
From speeding diagnoses to customizing patient experiences, AWS delivers what healthcare organizations need to embrace AI, including the easiest way to build generative AI-powered applications with general purpose and industry-specific large language models (LLMs) and foundation models (FMs), agents to automate manual tasks and find the right data from millions of scientific papers, and the most performant and cost-effective infrastructure for training and running models at scale, all with enterprise-grade security and privacy built-in.
Amazon Pharmacy is using Bedrock and SageMaker to create an LLM-based chatbot that streamlines data retrieval and summarization, enabling timely and accurate responses on prescriptions, orders, patient profiles, and pricing estimates, improving customer support and medication adherence.
Rush University System for Health (RUSH) utilizes Amazon SageMaker to run analytics models, enabling the identification of factors influencing health outcomes and the generation of risk stratification scores to pinpoint at-risk patients.
Clinicians at the University of California San Diego Health use generative AI to inspect hundreds of thousands of interventions and more quickly identify those that have a positive effect on patients, aligning comorbidities with other patient demographics to help improve outcomes.
Key Use Cases
Clinical Intelligence
Clinical note generation
Transcribe clinician-patient interactions, extract key details, generate comprehensive notes and integrate into EHR systems to ensure accurate, standardized documentation.
Clinical coding and record retrieval
Power intelligent customer care assistants and automate medical coding with natural language processing (NLP) services. Understand inquiries, integrate data from multiple sources, and synthesize relevant patient information for human customer care agents and extract relevant details to automatically assign appropriate codes based on industry standards while incorporating compliance checks.
Population health initiatives
Power population health initiatives by providing a unified interface for healthcare providers to identify risk factors, forecast outcomes, and provide insights for interventions and resource allocations with purpose-built data services from AWS.
Medical image interpretation and analysis
Enhance medical image analysis and interpretation with generative AI services from AWS. Detect anomalies and patterns using deep learning models, generate synthetic images for training and data augmentation, and provide decision support by highlighting areas of concern to speed diagnoses and improve outcomes.
Service Spotlight
AWS HealthScribe
A HIPAA-eligible service powered by Amazon Bedrock, which automates hours of electronic health record documentation to reduce the burden on physicians and allow them to focus on their patients.
Amazon Bedrock
The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with industry-leading foundation models (FMs) that can be fine-tuned using your own data and guardrails to healthcare use cases like intelligent assistants for healthcare providers and patients.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
A ML hub with foundation models, built-in algorithms, and prebuilt ML solutions that you can deploy with just a few clicks to perform tasks like medical image interpretation and analysis.
Amazon Q
A generative AI–powered assistant that can be customized to enhance clinical problem-solving, administrative tasks, and report generation by integrating your own data and systems.
AWS Clean Rooms
Helps AMCs and other research organizations easily and securely analyze and collaborate on collective datasets–without sharing or copying one another's underlying data, and customers can apply machine learning with other researchers with Clean Rooms ML.
Amazon Transcribe
Medical
A ML-powered speech recognition service that makes it easy to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to voice-enabled applications by accurately transcribing medical terminologies such as medicine names, procedures, and even conditions or diseases.
Amazon Comprehend
Medical
A NLP service that makes it easy to use machine learning to extract relevant medical information from unstructured text, such as prescriptions, procedures, or diagnoses, and links to standardized medical ontologies (ICD-10, RxNorm, SNOMED CT).
Patient and clinician experience
AWS helps streamline workflows and automate processes to ease clinician burden, provide virtual-care options, expand services to better reach under-served and at-risk populations, and manage the patient experience in a cost-efficient manner.
Southern Illinois Healthcare Reduces Employee Burnout Using Text-Based Survey Built Quickly on AWS
BayCare’s St. Joseph’s Hospital cuts café wait times and improves operating efficiency with Just Walk Out
Key Use Cases
Remote Patient Care
Connected Devices
Improve patient care, streamline clinical workflows, and enhance medical decision-making by securely connecting and reporting on medical device data.
Patient Engagement
Create virtual environments that empower patients through near real-time, omni-channel engagement and personalization tools that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Clinician Experience
Focus on patient care with solutions that streamline clinical workflows and reduce burnout. AWS and AWS Partners offer solutions—such as automated speech recognition— that give clinicians quick access to the information they need while reducing the burden of data entry.
Service Spotlight
AWS HealthScribe
Automatically generate clinical notes by analyzing patient-clinician conversations in your applications.
AWS HealthLake
Securely unify health data to power real-time applications, unlock AI-powered insights, while meeting regulatory requirements with a scalable, fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service.
AWS HealthImaging
Store, analyze, and share medical images and scale modern medical imaging applications with sub-second access to petabyte-scale data.
Amazon Connect
Helps healthcare organizations improve patient experiences with an AI-powered contact center from AWS.
Medical research
AWS enables researchers to process, analyze, and visualize vast amounts of healthcare data, from clinical records to genomic sequences, medical images, and clinical trial data. Leverage leading-edge technologies like AI/ML and Quantum, which holds the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, material science, and genomics.
DDRCC at Stanford University Uses AWS for Research in Precision Medicine Leveraging Multimodal Data
Service Spotlight
AWS HealthImaging
Store, analyze, and share medical images and scale modern medical imaging applications with sub-second access to petabyte-scale data.
AWS HealthOmics
Accelerate bioinformatics and drug discovery breakthroughs with managed workflows and storage at massive scale.
Amazon Comprehend Medical
A natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to extract insights like medical condition, medication, dosage, and strength quickly and accurately.
AWS Clean Rooms
Helps Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and other research organizations easily and securely analyze and collaborate on collective datasets–without sharing or copying one another's underlying data, and customers can apply machine learning with other researchers with Clean Rooms ML.
Service Workbench on AWS
A self-service, three-click, on-demand service for researchers to build research environments in minutes without having to know anything about cloud infrastructure or wait for research IT to respond.
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES)
An open source, easy-to-use web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research and engineering environments. Using RES, scientists and engineers can visualize data and run interactive applications without the need for cloud expertise.
Finance and operations
Purpose-built solutions from AWS and AWS Partners can help finance and operations departments modernize while also protecting the bottom line. Innovative tools enable organizations to capture financial data in near real-time, produce system-wide reports at a moment’s notice, and gain visibility into how their decisions are impacting business operations.
Key Use Cases
Enterprise Resource Planning
Retire lengthy reporting processes and manual data analysis, and streamline day-to-day operations with enterprise resource planning solutions from AWS and AWS Partners.
Revenue and Claims Management
Leverage innovative solutions for the collection and management of revenue to support payment integrity, member health, claims processing, and operational excellence.
Core health IT
AWS and AWS Partner solutions help address core health IT challenges, like resiliency and interoperability, enabling healthcare organizations to operate securely in a highly regulated global industry. Utilizing purpose-built solutions on the most trusted and secure cloud, organizations can deploy disaster recovery plans, address fluctuating storage needs, facilitate data access regardless of location, and improve operational performance system-wide.
CalvertHealth deployed several AWS solutions to minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery - reducing CalvertHealth’s RTO from 72 hours to under 2 hours, a 97 percent improvement.
Crossuite modernized its next-gen eHealth application using Amazon EKS, improving scalability to support over 13 million patients, resulting in 30% cost savings while achieving 99.9% uptime.
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Uses AWS to Improve Recovery Times by 67%.
Key Use Cases
Resiliency: security and disaster recovery
Compliance
Facilitate IT infrastructure that is compliant with changing policies and regulations, allowing teams to focus on driving patient-centric innovation. AWS Health Compliance in the Cloud.
Cloud migration
Remove the burden of maintaining physical data centers, manage costs and security, and provide for scalability and innovation on the most trusted, reliable cloud infrastructure.
Interoperability
The new era of personalized care requires the unification of data, regardless of type, providing a more holistic and collaborative approach to healthcare. Eliminate data silos and achieve secure, scalable, industry-compliant communication and true interoperability with AWS and AWS Partners.
Virtualization
Migrate and extend on-premises environments to the public cloud with AWS and AWS partners.
Service Spotlight
AWS Resilience Hub
A central location in the AWS Console for you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service
Minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.
AWS Backup
A cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection at scale.
AWS Fault Injection Service
A fully managed service for running fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience.
AWS CloudWatch
Monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.
AWS HealthLake
Securely unify health data to power real-time applications, unlock AI-powered insights, while meeting regulatory requirements with a scalable, fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service.
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built healthcare provider solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building healthcare solutions on AWS.
Customers can work with AWS Healthcare Competency Partners to build innovative and secure solutions that have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building healthcare solutions on AWS.
Accelerate innovation through the continuum of care with third-party healthcare solutions.
