Amazon Web Services

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By  Jessica Hagen 02:45 pm November 14, 2023
Dallas-based Pieces Technologies, a healthcare generative AI company for care teams, announced it incorporated Amazon Web Services' genAI offerings to create Sculpted AI, a technology that can tailor to health systems' specifications and embeds AI within electronic health record clinical workflows.  Sculpted AI leverages Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas to...
A doctor and a nurse using a laptop in a hospital.
By  Emily Olsen 04:30 pm March 27, 2023
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced the 23 startups that will participate in the latest round of its healthcare accelerator. The four-week program is focused on digital health tools that aim to address workforce challenges, including retaining healthcare workers, deploying clinicians to new sites of care, and training or upskilling for providers.  The startups in the latest cohort include: ...
A woman pitching her startup to partners
By  Emily Olsen 01:49 pm May 24, 2022
Amazon Web Services is now accepting applications for the latest cohort of its Healthcare Accelerator, which this year will target improving health outcomes for underserved communities.  The accelerator will accept 10 startups focused on increasing access to healthcare, reducing disparities by managing social determinants of health and using data for equity in healthcare. The companies will...
Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa and Shilpa Vadodaria
By  Emily Olsen 02:19 pm March 17, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many patients and providers to utilize telehealth and other virtual methods of delivering care. But not everyone was able to switch to telehealth in 2020. Cancer screenings and outpatient visits decreased, leaving some of the most vulnerable and underserved communities without access to care. "We need to really be a lot more intentional and purposeful with how we...
AWS, NHS, PUBLIC, Amazon Web Services, mental health, innovation
By  Tammy Lovell 10:12 am November 9, 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is collaborating with government-focused tech firm PUBLIC to launch its accelerator programme for UK-based digital healthcare startups. The virtual four-week mentorship opportunity is open to innovative companies focused on elective care, population health, citizen access and workforce. A cohort of 10 selected healthcare startups will receive AWS promotional credits,...
 From expanding its employee health offerings to launching its first health wearable, Amazon had a busy 2020.
By  Mallory Hackett 11:08 am December 21, 2020
All eyes have watched to see what Amazon’s next move in the health space would be ever since its collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase was announced in 2018. The joint venture, however, has been fairly quiet since its announcement. It took more than a year for the company to announce its name – Haven. Other than that, the only word from Haven was the appointment, and eventual...
By  MobiHealthNews 03:24 pm December 13, 2019
Amazon has continued to make a splash in the digital health world in 2019. This year it has been particularly active in the voice space. Its efforts include everything from launching a new Amazon Alexa feature that reminds patients to take their medication to a medical transcription function that runs on Amazon Web Services.  But Amazon hasn’t put all of its eggs in the voice basket. In 2018, the...
By  Laura Lovett 10:11 am December 2, 2019
Amazon Web Services is tapping into its voice technology once again with the launch of the Amazon Transcribe Medical, an automated speech recognition service that will let developers add medical diction and documentation to their apps.  The streaming API tool is designed to cater to medical and pharmacological terms, thereby allowing doctors, clinicians and researchers to dictate into it. It also...
By  Dave Muoio and Laura Lovett 03:07 pm March 6, 2019
Minneapolis-based Allina Health will be implementing PatientWisdom’s information and experience platform within its EHR system. The startup’s tool allows patients to upload information about their personal lives and healthcare expectations into the web portal, which is then surfaced for the provider during their normal workflow. “We are delighted to be working with Allina Health – I’m a big fan...
By  Dave Muoio 10:47 am November 28, 2018
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new machine learning tool that looks to help healthcare industry developers process bodies of unstructured medical text. Called Amazon Comprehend Medical, the HIPAA-eligible service is able to pull out medically-relevant information such as patient diagnoses, symptoms, medical test details, treatments and dosages, while simultaneously highlighting any protected...