Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced two cloud-based health services at its summit in NYC. AWS HealthScribe offers HIPAA-eligible generative AI for quick clinical note creation and integration into EHRs. HealthImaging handles medical data at a petabyte scale for cost savings. AWS aims to accelerate enterprise innovation in AI, and 3M Health Information Systems partnered with AWS for real-time speech recognition and ambient clinical documentation. AWS focuses on reducing healthcare professionals’ documentation burden, enabling more time for patient care and research solutions.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced two new cloud-based health services at its annual summit in New York City. These services aim to enhance clinical documentation and image management while leveraging artificial intelligence.
The first offering, AWS HealthScribe, is powered by Amazon Bedrock and provides generative AI capabilities for healthcare software developers. It allows the quick creation of clinical notes, which can be seamlessly integrated into Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This HIPAA-eligible tool utilizes natural language processing to segment content into categories like key takeaways, reason for visit, and history of present illness, thus generating informative summaries. Clinicians have the flexibility to review and finalize transcripts and summaries within their EHRs. The service is accessible through a single API, providing health systems with control over data storage and encryption both in transit and at rest. Clinicians retain ownership of the content and can choose where to store transcriptions and preliminary clinical notes.
The second service, AWS HealthImaging, focuses on medical imaging and efficiently manages data at a petabyte scale. This service is expected to be cost-effective for organizations transitioning from self-managed infrastructure for DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) ingestion. HealthImaging handles multiple import jobs concurrently, automatically organizing individual DICOM P10 files into image sets with consistent metadata at the patient, study, and series levels. Wake Forest Baptist Health and Philips are among the organizations utilizing this service for research, education, and workflow optimization.
The launch of these new health services by AWS is part of a larger trend toward enterprise innovation in artificial intelligence. The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, launched recently, aims to accelerate innovation in this area. With over 100,000 customers having already used AWS AI and ML services, there is a growing demand for guidance on how to quickly and securely implement generative AI solutions.
AWS’s collaboration with 3M Health Information Systems in using M*Modal ML and generative AI services for real-time speech recognition and clinical documentation further highlights the company’s commitment to advancing healthcare technology.
Bratin Saha, Vice President of ML and AI Services at AWS emphasized the importance of reducing the time spent on foundational health data capabilities, allowing healthcare professionals to focus more on innovative clinical care and research solutions for patients. The introduction of generative AI in AWS HealthScribe is expected to significantly ease the burden of clinical documentation for healthcare professionals.
