Amazon Web Services

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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:21 pm October 8, 2024
Kipu Health, a company that provides technology solutions for behavioral health, announced it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a suite of original AI solutions for healthcare providers.  The initial offering within the AI suite is designed to simplify clinical workflows by transcribing patients' sessions, generating progress notes and delivering chart summaries for...
A doctor reviewing a patient's record on a laptop computer
By  Adam Ang 09:59 pm August 22, 2024
More APAC leaders to invest in genAI: report Asia-Pacific will see increased investment in generative AI technology over the coming years.  In the ninth edition of Royal Philips' Future Health Index report, over six in 10 APAC leaders polled said they plan to invest in genAI in the next three years. At present, almost 40% of them have already invested in the technology.  While there is great...
Person being drawn into a diagnostic imaging machine while wearing a hospital gown
By  Jessica Hagen 04:08 pm July 25, 2024
GE HealthCare announced it has formed a strategic partnership to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) healthcare and genAI services to build AI-enabled workflows that help improve the accuracy of diagnostic screening, streamline healthcare operations, and improve equitable care access and outcomes. GE will use Amazon Bedrock's foundation models to create its own proprietary genAI applications and...
Scientists in a laboratory
By  Jessica Hagen 05:05 pm June 26, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it is collaborating with EvolutionaryScale, an AI company focused on biology, to give scientists and researchers access to the startup's ESM3 language models via AWS to advance drug discovery by allowing for the creation of new proteins. Yesterday, EvolutionaryScale, founded by former researchers at Meta’s AI research lab, announced it secured $142 million...
Healthcare provider with a lab coat on sitting at a desk and looking at a computer
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...