Tag: Healthcare

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

By Aaron Friedman. Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare & Life Sciences Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services. What an exciting time to be building healthcare and life science solutions on the AWS Cloud! One of my favorite things about my job is seeing the industry-shaping solutions that our HCLS partners are building. To highlight some of […]

NorthBay, an Advanced AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Big Data Competency Partner, focuses on helping organizations migrate from traditional fragile on-premises data warehouses to AWS – “Teaching Old Data New Tricks™”. We recently wrote about NorthBay and the company’s new partnership with Premier APN Consulting Partner Mobiquity, which you can read more about here. Today, NorthBay […]

Special thanks to Jordin Green, Global Head of Industry Marketing & Global Healthcare and Global Life Sciences Marketing Lead, AWS and Gretchen Murphy, PR Manager at Medidata Solutions. AWS Life Science Competency Partner Medidata Solutions is a leading SaaS company solely focused on helping life sciences companies conduct faster, safer, less expensive, and more insightful clinical research. Medidata Solutions’s cloud […]

Christopher Crosbie was also a contributor on this post. In his new book, The Death of Cancer, world renowned oncologist Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. laments: “… it illustrates what has been, for me, a source of perennial frustration: at this date, we are not limited by the science; we are limited by our ability […]

Christopher Crosbie MPH, MS and AWS Partner Network (APN) Solutions Architect As a Healthcare and Life Science-focused Partner Solutions Architect, I have an opportunity to meet with a variety of APN partners who are using cloud computing to enhance the healthcare and life science industries. I also gain insight into the way our APN partners […]

I’m excited to share with you our latest AWS Partner Success stories, featuring two APN Partners who’ve been very successful in growing their businesses on AWS, and have differentiated themselves on AWS by earning a number of AWS Competencies. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who’ve demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success […]

Many of our APN Partners work closely with customers in the healthcare industry, and develop services and solutions that address business needs in the healthcare space. One of the biggest considerations for healthcare customers and healthcare-focused APN Partners is building applications that are compliant with the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). You can […]

Today’s announcement of the precisionFDA platform is significant for the genomics research community for a number of reasons. With this pilot platform, a component of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, the FDA is working towards establishing a community of stakeholders to help drive the standard around secondary analysis, the area of mapping, alignment, and variant […]

Compliance is a key factor for Health Tech companies, whether they are looking to move workloads to the cloud or are building cloud-native applications. In the U.S., companies handling personal health information (“PHI”) are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). AWS employs a shared responsibility model where AWS manages the security […]