Benefits of adopting a modern health-data strategy

A modern healthcare-data strategy helps your organization to create a data architecture that turns raw data into usable, complete information with speed and scale. It supports your organization's collection and use of data from disparate sources and in multiple forms, including:

• Healthcare revenue cycle–management data, including claims, remittances, and benefits

• Multimodal clinical data, including structured and unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data, lab results, genomic data, and medical imaging data

• Pharmacy data, such as prescription-fill data

• External heath data from biobanks, data commons, research datasets, and other sources

• Patient data, including behavioral data (from wearable or IoT devices) and home-device data

Healthcare organizations must build data pipelines to ingest, harmonize, clean, and analyze this data. The data must then be delivered on time as usable information to frontline workers at the point of care. Every step of the data pipeline must be well-architected: secure and compliant, reliable, performant, elastic, and sustainable.

Healthcare organizations are using data and data-oriented services to accelerate research and development. They are also building predictive algorithms that can assist clinicians in identifying problems before they occur. To achieve these objectives, healthcare organizations are implementing advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) technologies, including the latest advancements in generative AI.

As described in the following sections, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the AWS Partner Network provide Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-eligible, secure, reliable, performant, elastic services for every stage of a healthcare data pipeline. The guidance includes best practices to help your healthcare organization meet your system goals and the goals of your organization's patients.

This strategy document provides examples of how AWS services can support builders in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry. These examples are not exhaustive, and they do not include AWS Partner solutions that can help you build and manage solutions more quickly and cost-effectively. For a list of Healthcare and Life Sciences solutions from the AWS Partner Network, visit the AWS Marketplace.