Cerner expands AWS relationship with new machine learning initiatives

In an expansion of their ongoing collaboration, Cerner has chosen Amazon Web Services as its preferred artificial intelligence and machine learning provider – and will continue to use AWS technologies to improve patient and provider experience, boost population health efforts and tackle healthcare costs. WHY IT MATTERS Cerner will work to migrate core applications to AWS as part of the collaborative agreement, officials said. In addition, the company is standardizing its AI and machine learning workloads on AWS to develop new predictive technology. One focus of this new initiative is the Cerner Machine Learning Ecosystem – a platform built using Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Simple Storage Service, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Step Functions and Amazon CloudWatch. The companies say the platform will help healthcare data scientists building, deploy, monitor and manage machine models at scale – and help Cerner find more predictive and digital diagnostic insights for earlier health interventions.