Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an array of healthcare applications and services, incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) resources to aid clinicians in transcribing and analyzing patient-clinician conversations.
One of the newly launched services is AWS HealthScribe, a HIPAA-eligible offering that enables healthcare software vendors to build clinical applications capable of generating preliminary clinical notes automatically. This is achieved by analyzing patient-clinician conversations using AI. With AWS HealthScribe, users can leverage a comprehensive suite of AI-powered features to accelerate clinical documentation within their clinical applications.
The integration of AWS HealthScribe in healthcare applications provides medical practitioners with key highlights of patient visits. By consolidating these capabilities, AWS HealthScribe eliminates the need for separate AI services and custom models, leading to faster implementation. Healthcare application builders can now focus on delivering value to end users without the complexities of optimizing individual AI components.
Several prominent companies in the healthcare industry have already embraced AWS HealthScribe. Among them are 3M Health Information Systems (HIS), Babylon Health, and ScribeEMR. 3M HIS utilizes machine learning on AWS to streamline clinical documentation and billing, significantly transforming clinician workflows and reducing laborious processes for healthcare organizations.
Currently, AWS HealthScribe is available in preview in the United States. Alongside HealthScribe, Amazon has also introduced AWS HealthImaging, a service designed to simplify the storage, transformation, and analysis of medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. With AWS HealthImaging, customers can efficiently run medical imaging applications using a single copy of each medical image in the AWS cloud.
Moreover, the service supports dynamic pricing for active and archive data, ensuring cost-efficiency, while providing subsecond image access latencies from AWS’ Frequent Access or Archive Instant Access storage tiers. These advancements in healthcare services empowered by generative AI showcase AWS’ commitment to revolutionizing the healthcare industry, enhancing clinical processes, and ultimately improving patient care.
