Unlock patient data insights using Amazon HealthLake

AWS just announced the General Availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to securely store, transform, query, analyze, and share health data in the cloud at petabyte scale. We believe that the combination of the innovation trends in healthcare (such as reimbursement models around data-driven evidence), standardization around interoperability (such as federal and global incentives and mandates in adopting the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, or FHIR), and the advancement of scientific methods (such as with deep learning) enable our healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) customers to improve clinical and research efforts. Over the past decade, we've witnessed a digital transformation with healthcare organizations capturing huge volumes of patient information in electronic medical records (EMRs) every day, making the medical record a source of big data containing information regarding sociodemographics, medical conditions, genetics, and treatments. Making sense of all this data provides the biggest opportunity to transform care by tailoring disease treatment and prevention to individuals and populations. This so-called precision medicine takes into account the individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each individual.