What’s New - AWS HealthImaging
The power and promise of medical imaging in the cloud
As the quality of medical images advance, healthcare organizations need access to cost-effective, scalable on-demand capacity for the storage and archiving of petabytes of medical imaging data. AWS empowers radiologists, health systems, and research teams increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of imaging data, develop more personalized approaches to care delivery, and improve cost and operational efficiency. AWS and AWS partners offer services and solutions that migrate imaging to the cloud to lower costs amidst fluctuating storage needs, strengthen data accessibility, and facilitate compliance -- driving faster insights and better value.
Benefits
AWS and AWS Partner solutions and services help radiologists and health systems manage the fluctuating storage needs of imaging data, applying intelligence to extract insights and personalize patient care.
Featured Use Cases
The following use cases detail the AWS, AWS Partner, and AWS Marketplace solutions available for each workflow.
What do these solutions do?
AWS and AWS Partner cloud storage solutions free PACS administrators from storage infrastructure management tasks. Cost savings can be realized by decommissioning enterprise imaging-related hardware and data centers, re-allocating time and money to accelerate projects that improve patient outcomes.
Radiologists benefit from decreased image load times, accelerated processing of complex images, and integrated systems which enable sophisticated filtering of diagnostic reports, leading to improved patient care.
AWS Partner solutions also offer Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA) and universal viewers for medical images stored in the VNA in a secure, performant and cost-effective environment. These solutions allow data to be modified upstream or downstream from the VNA. The universal viewer can also be integrated with the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to allow physicians fast access to patient images.
Partners
Visage in the Cloud is an ultra-fast, fully managed PACS-as-a-Service that enables you to go live securely with incredible scale and performance. Visage’s frictionless, server-side architecture has been engineered to intelligently leverage the best capabilities of object-based cloud storage, offering performance that exceeds traditional on-prem flash storage arrays, using one of the least costly tiers of encrypted cloud storage.
For more information, visit the Visage in the Cloud website .
Visage® 7 platform for the future - powered by speed
Download the whitepaper to gain more inisight into the capabilities of the Visage Enterprise Imaging Platform, including the 3D advanced visualization, the in-viewer workflow, thin slice reading, prior availability, and other workflows.
AWS Summit DC 2021: Leverage AWS for radiology workloads
UC Health selected Visage as its PACS viewer and to run its mission critical radiology system on AWS. In this session, learn how to leverage the best capabilities of AWS to enable physicians to rapidly access images with real-time streaming.
Emergent Connect offers a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solution with over 65 bi-directional connections with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for full interoperability. The solution comes equipped with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) viewer that focuses on delivering speed without latency. Emergent Connect also features a priority Modality Worklist that connects disparate PACS and locations, which are in turn integrated with FDA-cleared AI solutions.
For more information, visit the Emergent Connect Marketplace offerings .
ExceedPACs - 100% cloud based radiology PACS / VNA system
Explore ExceedPACS, which is 100% cloud based, complete with FDA approved DICOM Viewer, RIS, VNA/Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Modality Worklist with several FDA approved Artificial Intelligence solutions integrated for clinical use.
ExceedVNA
Learn more about ExceedVNA, a cloud VNA (vendor neutral archive) for DICOM medical images and non-DICOM data.
What do these solutions do?
Understanding the patient context prior to a diagnostic procedure is critical to a radiologist and the healthcare professionals relying on medical imaging diagnoses. AWS and AWS Partner solutions utilize AI/ML to optimize the diagnostic interpretation process, integrating information from different systems and filtering and presenting the data based on relevance. The solutions help improve the accuracy and completeness of the diagnostic reports produced, thereby increasing health worker productivity and improving patient care.
In research, existing PACS and VNA systems have limited search capabilities, yielding mismatched search results. After completing the search and discovery process, researchers must create copies of de-identified images for analysis to compile relevant samples, which can be time-consuming. Finally, the training process with existing AI tools to create a suitable cohort can be onerous. AWS and AWS Partner solutions provide granular search capabilities of images stored in PACS and VNAs, along with the ability to directly access deidentified data from the clinical archive as part of the training process to eliminate the time and cost associated with creating and managing separate copies.
Partners
Philips uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop data analytics, machine learning, and computer vision technologies that enable healthcare providers to make better decisions for their patients. The company uses AWS for its HealthSuite Digital Platform , which securely consolidates information from patient records, wearables, home-based remote monitoring equipment, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations.
For more information, visit the Philips HealthSuite website.
AWS is How: Philips makes medical diagnostics accessible to more people
Philips HealthSuite Platform (HSP), built on AWS, has created a single architecture that consolidates patient records, data from wearable and home-based remote medical-monitoring equipment, and information from insurance companies and healthcare organizations.
Accelerate cloud healthcare and life science innovation in regulated environments
Philip's HealthSuite digital platform fosters open and collaborative innovation focused on developing breakthrough health, wellness and life science solutions that will transform the way care is delivered.
AWS re:Invent – Elad Benjamin of Philips on using AWS to help improve healthcare
In this video, Elad Benjamin, general manager of Radiology Informatics, describes how AWS is helping Philips increase its use of AI and data science to extract new knowledge from health data.
Other Providers
Cleerly uses AI-driven heart imaging technology to help save lives with AWS
Cleerly uses AI and AWS to enable non-invasive, comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis (plaque) building in arteries. Cleerly applies its AI algorithms to non-invasive coronary computed tomography angiograms (CCTAs), an approach that has been shown to reduce heart attacks by 41 percent in stable symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).
Rad AI drives revenue by 10x using Amazon EC2 powered by NVIDIA
Rad AI helps alleviate radiologists workloads by training ML models to read detailed documents and automatically summarize results customized to the radiologist’s language, which ordering physicians use to identify ailments and devise treatment plans. To increase its ML inference speed and generate real-time conclusions, the company chose AWS.
Aidoc brings lifesaving AI advancements to medical imaging on AWS
Aidoc provides radiologists with advanced solutions that utilize AI and image-recognition tools to augment radiologists’ expertise. Decision support software analyzes CT scans to flag acute abnormalities, prioritize life-threatening cases, and expedite patient care.
AI-enabled radiomics revolutionizes cancer research and treatment on AWS
Through HealthMyne’s AI-enabled solutions, organizations can access and easily translate ground-breaking radiomic insights—those related to the cutting-edge field of extracting novel data and predictive biomarkers from medical images—to be used in cancer research, treatment planning, and clinical management.
What do these solutions do?
With the need for 50+ different medical imaging systems to be integrated using the Digital Imaging and Communications (DICOM) and Health Level Seven (HL7) standard protocols, radiologist departments need to facilitate the exchange of MRIs, CT scans, x-rays, mammograms, and ultrasounds among healthcare providers. This accelerates the efficient and seamless exchange of medical images and health information from numerous sources to enable better care coordination and treatment decisions.
With the HIPAA Privacy Rule empowering individuals to legally request and receive copies of their medical records, health providers must comply with the protected health information (PHI) requests while ensuring the confidentiality and security of its patients. Healthcare providers may not be equipped to securely move images from the Picture Archival and Communication System (PACS) or Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) to a third party image sharing repository while meeting ITSEC approval over secure gateways.
With AWS and AWS Partner solutions, healthcare providers can store medical images in the cloud, share them with patients and with other stakeholders securely and reliably.
Partners
Ambra Health uses AWS to drive global expansion of medical imaging platform
Ambra Health used AWS to expand its SaaS medical imaging data platform to five new countries, meet strict data security requirements, and grow its domestic business.
APN startup partner Ambra Health
Hear from Morris Panner, CEO at Ambra Health, an APN Startup Partner and digital healthcare company. Morris shares his thoughts on the value of being an APN Partner and why the industry experience of the AWS teams he's worked with has been so helpful.
Butterfly Network brings medical imaging to more people in more places using AWS
Butterfly iQ is one of the first handheld whole-body ultrasound systems. With a starting price under $2,000 and a cloud-based, intelligent data and analytics platform, Butterfly iQ is designed to make medical imaging universally accessible and affordable.
Butterfly iQ: What if medical imaging was as accessible as a stethoscope
Watch Dr. John Martin, Chief Medical Officer of Butterfly Network, demonstrate the Butterfly iQ medical imaging device combined with the science of AI and deep-learning models trained on AWS to allow users with less training to operate the ultrasound device, interpret the captured images, and make more consistent measurements.
Axial3D: Powering the revolution in medical 3D printing with Amazon SageMaker
Axial3D provides clinicians with the insight and confidence they need to create a surgical plan in the form of high-quality, patient-specific 3D anatomical models. This results in better clinical outcomes for patients, significantly reduced planning and operating time and costs for the surgery, and patients who are much better informed about their condition and the proposed surgery.
Axial3D helps surgeons save lives with 3D medical models powered by AWS
Read how Axial3D helps surgeons save lives using detailed preoperative 3D medical models. Using Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EC2, and Amazon S , Axial3D helped surgeons at Belfast City Hospital successfully perform a kidney transplant.
Anatoscope creates and streams 3D avatars from patient medical images
Anatoscope, a healthtech startup, develops software solutions to create 3D avatars from patient medical images. Anatoscope has created its own streaming architecture based on Amazon S3, EC2 GPU instances, and Docker to ensure the quality of the service and the streaming in real time as well as to guarantee data security while controlling hosting costs.
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