AWS unveiled two new cloud-based health services – HealthScribe, a generative AI tool for creating clinical notes that integrate with EHRs, and HealthImaging, handling large-scale medical imaging data. HealthScribe’s HIPAA-eligible AI simplifies documentation by generating summaries from medical discussions. HealthImaging streamlines DICOM ingestion, benefiting organizations transitioning from self-managed infrastructure. The services align with AWS’s focus on generative AI and aim to ease healthcare professionals’ burdens while empowering them to deliver innovative care and research solutions.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new cloud-based health services aimed at enhancing clinical documentation and medical image management. These offerings were announced at the annual summit in New York City.
The first service, called AWS HealthScribe, is a generative AI tool designed to facilitate the creation of clinical notes that can be seamlessly integrated into electronic health records (EHRs). Healthcare software developers often struggle to deploy AI-driven tools that analyze and summarize medical discussions effectively. HealthScribe addresses this challenge by providing a HIPAA-eligible AI tool that eliminates the need for managing underlying machine learning infrastructure or training specific language models. The tool utilizes text-to-speech capabilities to create conversation transcripts and then uses natural language processing to categorize the content, generating summaries that include key takeaways, visit reasons, and histories of present illnesses. Clinicians can review and finalize these transcripts and summaries in their EHRs. Additionally, the HealthScribe service offers data control for health systems, ensuring that data storage is customizable and encrypted in transit and at rest.
The second service, AWS HealthImaging, focuses on handling medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. It is designed to save organizations money by eliminating the need for self-managed infrastructure for DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) ingestion. The service handles multiple import jobs concurrently, importing individual DICOM P10 files as image frames and automatically organizing them into image sets with consistent metadata at the patient, study, and series levels. Wake Forest Baptist Health and Philips are among the organizations leveraging HealthImaging for medical image sharing, research, and optimization of workflows.
AWS’s commitment to generative AI is evident in the recent launch of the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, aimed at accelerating enterprise innovation. The company reports that over 100,000 customers have utilized AWS AI and ML (machine learning) services, indicating a growing demand for guidance on leveraging generative AI securely and efficiently.
By introducing HealthScribe and HealthImaging, AWS aims to enable healthcare professionals to focus on delivering innovative clinical care and research solutions rather than spending excessive time managing foundational health data capabilities. The utilization of generative AI technology is expected to reduce the burden of clinical documentation for healthcare professionals.
