Category: AWS HealthLake

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare technology landscape, managing patient data securely and efficiently is crucial. We’ll explore the implementation of multi-tenant FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) HealthLake, a robust service for healthcare organizations seeking to scale their data management capabilities. Defining key terms We will be diving into technical […]

In today’s healthcare landscape, protecting electronic health record (EHR) systems from unplanned outages due to ransomware, natural disasters, or even human error is becoming more important than ever, as any downtime can affect care delivery and put patients at risk. And, it’s not just care delivery that is affected. The Ponemon Institute estimates that healthcare […]

Introduction Each year, hundreds of thousands of children across America receive critical care. For these young patients, brain injury poses a serious risk that can lead to long-term health complications. Now, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop an innovative solution that […]

Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) organizations are generating more data than ever as they integrate molecular data into their drug discovery, clinical development, molecular diagnostics, and population health analysis. Because of the amount of data, customers are looking for well-organized cost-effective storage that supports easy discovery and integration into their analysis ecosystem. Customers also want […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is heading to Las Vegas, NV for the upcoming HIMSS 2025 Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 2-6, 2025. In alignment with the event theme, “creating tomorrow’s health,” the AWS for Healthcare team will showcase this commitment with compelling demonstrations, discussions, and speaking sessions. Our goal is to help organizations leverage […]

Adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI) in healthcare continues to improve the efficiency of electronic claims processing. However, organizations (like the American Medical Association) see an ongoing need to simplify healthcare EDI to make it easier for physicians and reduce uncertainty for patients. Historically, implementation of EDI required complicated or monolithic legacy systems. To combat […]

Real-World Evidence (RWE) is a domain in which new medical evidence is generated based on data from healthcare and other health services from “the Real World”, compared to clinical trials which are controlled and from specific medical evidence generation. This domain is an evolution of HEOR (Health Economic and Outcome Research) and is particularly inspired by […]

In the rapidly evolving field of healthcare, leveraging generative AI has the potential to revolutionize patient care and streamline clinical processes. However, orchestrating these complex workflows while ensuring data security and compliance with regulations, such as HIPAA, can be challenging. A common pattern involves starting with the source data, choosing a generative AI model, and […]

Introduction During Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity, Healthcare and Life Science (HCLS) customers face additional administrative challenges integrating the technical, legal, and business systems of the target and acquirer companies. For non-technical stakeholders (business administrators, financial and legal departments, private equity parties), it is important to understand the technical challenges of integrations that will impact […]

Introduction This blog post describes a feature in AWS HealthLake which allows direct integration with Amazon EventBridge. Additionally, this blog post will show how AWS HealthLake’s event-driven capabilities can be leveraged to track events at the FHIR resource levels, allowing you to address complex notifications and subscription scenarios with native AWS services. AWS HealthLake, a […]