Category: Public Sector

Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers, affecting millions of women annually. Thanks to advances in early detection and groundbreaking technologies, a breast cancer diagnosis no longer has to evoke feelings of hopelessness. The latest publication of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO), shows […]

Aligned with the HIMSS 2024 theme of “creating tomorrow’s health,” AWS for Healthcare and Life Sciences teams are on the ground with our customers and partners highlighting how the cloud helps them generate better insights and better outcomes by leveraging data and applying innovative technologies like generative AI. In addition to speaking slots and demos, […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Epic, is announcing another increase in Epic on AWS customer database sizing, measured in global references per second (GRefs/s). Epic’s Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) can now be sized to 75 million GRefs/s in AWS. This is achieved on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) R7an.48xlarge instance combined with Amazon […]

Better data. Better insights. Better outcomes. The AWS for Healthcare team is heading to Orlando for the upcoming HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 11-15. In alignment with the event theme, “creating tomorrow’s health,” the AWS for Healthcare team will showcase our commitment to helping healthcare organizations generate better insights and better outcomes by […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Safran Passenger Innovations (SPI) – a global leader for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity Systems, built an aircraft data connectivity platform called SmartPipe. This scalable, cloud-connected platform provides aircraft operators with the ability to establish connections between an aircraft and the cloud, and communicate with each other to exchange data. Aircraft […]

As a prelude to re:Invent 2023, AWS hosted the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) Executive Symposium in Las Vegas on Monday, November 27. The half-day, in-person event, attended by over 300 leaders from 180 organizations, centered around harnessing the power of data, analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative AI to accelerate innovation. This year’s symposium […]

Occasionally, new technologies emerge that fundamentally alter how businesses operate. But without the appropriate tools—controls, safeguards, and user experiences—the promise of new technologies can get stuck.  In the past year, many have been captivated by the potential of Generative AI to revolutionize drug discovery, precision medicine, and healthcare delivery. But what tools will turn the […]

Throughout 2023, we’ve witnessed an acceleration of innovation at the intersection of health and technology. And with this year’s AWS re:Invent right around the corner, industry and AWS leaders are preparing to share their cutting edge technologies, use cases, and breakthroughs fueled by integrated data strategies, machine learning, and generative AI. Running November 27 through […]

Today, healthcare organizations rely on a combination of automated and manual processes to compose, review, and classify patient safety reports. These reports are entered manually by front-line clinicians into the RL Datix reporting system. This entry includes both discrete data points as well as a free-text narrative. Although the data collection process may begin with […]

In September 2022, Texas A&M University became the first higher education institution to launch Just Walk Out technology at its sports venue, Kyle Field. Three “March In, March Out” stores were installed, offering fans products like snacks, chips, soda, water, and alcoholic beverages. The stadium is one of the 10 highest capacity stadiums in the […]