Amazon launches HealthLake, a platform for storing and analyzing health care data

During its re:Invent 2020 virtual keynote today, Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store, transform, and analyze up to petabytes of life science data in Amazon Web Services. Amazon says that the HIPAA-eligible HealthLake, which is available in preview starting today, can automatically understand and extract medical information including rules, procedures, and diagnoses in real time. Health care data is often spread across various systems such as electronic medical lab systems, and it's challenging to organize because it's often unstructured. Data in medical records like clinical notes, reports and forms like insurance claims, and image scans needs to be prepped and normalized before analyses can begin. HealthLake aims to address this challenge by enabling customers to apply intelligence to hundreds of thousands of data points across different siloes in dozens of formats.