Healthcare – Noise

Integrate scientific data management and analytics with the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, Part 1

Nadeem Bulsara — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:19:12 +0000

In this blog post, AWS introduces a solution to a common challenge in scientific research - the inefficient management of fragmented scientific data. The post demonstrates how the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, through its Unified Studio and Catalog features, helps scientists streamline their workflow by integrating data management and analytics capabilities.

How DeNA Co., Ltd. accelerated anonymized data quality tests up to 100 times faster using Amazon Redshift Serverless and dbt

Momota Sasaki — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:40:39 +0000

DeNA Co., Ltd. (DeNA) engages in a variety of businesses, from games and live communities to sports & the community and healthcare & medical, under our mission to delight people beyond their wildest dreams. This post introduces a case study where DeNA combined Amazon Redshift Serverless and dbt (dbt Core) to accelerate data quality tests in their business.

AWS achieves HDS certification in four additional AWS Regions

Janice Leung — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:10:58 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that four additional AWS Regions—Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv)—have been granted the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification, increasing the scope to 24 global AWS Regions. The Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), the French […]

Improve healthcare services through patient 360: A zero-ETL approach to enable near real-time data analytics

Saeed Barghi — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:21:54 +0000

Healthcare providers have an opportunity to improve the patient experience by collecting and analyzing broader and more diverse datasets. This includes patient medical history, allergies, immunizations, family disease history, and individuals’ lifestyle data such as workout habits. Having access to those datasets and forming a 360-degree view of patients allows healthcare providers such as claim […]

AWS completes the first cloud audit by the Ingelheim Kreis Initiative Joint Audits group for the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector

Janice Leung — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:06:51 +0000

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the first cloud service provider (CSP) audit by the Ingelheim Kreis (IK) Initiative Joint Audits group. The audit group represents quality and compliance professionals from some of our largest pharmaceutical and life sciences customers who collectively perform audits on their key suppliers. As customers […]

Pharmacies Giving Patient Records to Police without Warrants

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:09:52 +0000

Add pharmacies to the list of industries that are giving private data to the police without a warrant.

Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:37:14 +0000

More unconstrained surveillance:

Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. The letter—signed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.)—said their investigation pulled information from briefings with eight big prescription drug suppliers.

They include the seven largest pharmacy chains in the country: CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart Stores, Inc., The Kroger Company, and Rite Aid Corporation. The lawmakers also spoke with Amazon Pharmacy...

AWS Clean Rooms ML helps customers and partners apply ML models without sharing raw data (preview)

Donnie Prakoso — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:43:40 +0000

Today, we’re introducing AWS Clean Rooms ML (preview), a new capability of AWS Clean Rooms that helps you and your partners apply machine learning (ML) models on your collective data without copying or sharing raw data with each other. With this new capability, you can generate predictive insights using ML models while continuing to protect your sensitive […]

How healthcare organizations can analyze and create insights using price transparency data

Gokhul Srinivasan — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:40:16 +0000

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on price transparency in the healthcare industry. Under the Transparency in Coverage (TCR) rule, hospitals and payors to publish their pricing data in a machine-readable format. With this move, patients can compare prices between different hospitals and make informed healthcare decisions. For more information, refer to […]

Improving medical imaging workflows with AWS HealthImaging and SageMaker

Sukhomoy Basak — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:56:54 +0000

Medical imaging plays a critical role in patient diagnosis and treatment planning in healthcare. However, healthcare providers face several challenges when it comes to managing, storing, and analyzing medical images. The process can be time-consuming, error-prone, and costly. There’s also a radiologist shortage across regions and healthcare systems, making the demand for this specialty increases […]

Process price transparency data using AWS Glue

Hari Thatavarthy — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:21:45 +0000

The Transparency in Coverage rule is a federal regulation in the United States that was finalized by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in October 2020. The rule requires health insurers to provide clear and concise information to consumers about their health plan benefits, including costs and coverage details. Under the rule, health […]

Cloud Security Strategies for Healthcare

Marla Rosner — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The healthcare industry must innovate in the cloud to meet patient needs, but organizations need to do so without creating unnecessary or unmanaged risk.

Uptick in healthcare organizations experiencing targeted DDoS attacks

Cat Allen — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:02:16 +0000

Over the past few days, Cloudflare, as well as other sources, have observed healthcare organizations targeted by a pro-Russian hacktivist group claiming to be Killnet.

How Novo Nordisk built a modern data architecture on AWS

Jonatan Selsing — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:33:59 +0000

Novo Nordisk is a leading global pharmaceutical company, responsible for producing life-saving medicines that reach more than 34 million patients each day. They do this following their triple bottom line—that they must strive to be environmentally sustainable, socially sustainable, and financially sustainable. The combination of using AWS and data supports all these targets. Data is […]

Introducing Amazon Omics – A Purpose-Built Service to Store, Query, and Analyze Genomic and Biological Data at Scale

Channy Yun — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:32:29 +0000

You might learn in high school biology class that the human genome is composed of over three billion letters of code using adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T) paired in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The human genome acts as the biological blueprint of every human cell. And that’s only the foundation for […]

A Digital Red Cross

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:38:33 +0000

The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network.

The emblem wouldn’t provide technical cybersecurity protection to hospitals, Red Cross infrastructure or other medical providers, but it would signal to hackers that a cyberattack on those protected networks during an armed conflict would violate international humanitarian law, experts say, Tilman Rodenhäuser, a legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, said at a panel discussion hosted by the organization on Thursday...

Let’s Architect! Architecting in health tech

Luca Mezzalira — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:31:27 +0000

Healthcare technology, commonly referred to as “health tech,” is the use of technologies developed for the purpose of improving any and all aspects of the healthcare system. For example, IT tools or software designed to boost hospital/administrative productivity, give insights into new and existing treatments, or improve the overall quality of care. Also known as […]

AWS achieves HDS certification to three additional Regions

Janice Leung — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:22:47 +0000

We’re excited to announce that three additional AWS Regions—Asia Pacific (Korea), Europe (London), and Europe (Stockholm)—have been granted the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification. This alignment with the HDS requirements demonstrates our continued commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. AWS customers who handle personal health […]

Building a serverless cloud-native EDI solution with AWS

Ripunjaya Pattnaik — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:04:03 +0000

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a technology that exchanges information between organizations in a structured digital form based on regulated message formats and standards. EDI has been used in healthcare for decades on the payer side for determination of coverage and benefits verification. There are different standards for exchanging electronic business documents, like American National […]

Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:10:53 +0000

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a nose swab, but you never get test results. Speculation centered around data harvesting, but that didn’t make sense because it was far too labor intensive for that and — sorry to break it to you — your data isn’t worth all that much.

It seems to be multilevel marketing fraud instead:

The Center for COVID Control is a management company to Doctors Clinical Laboratory. It provides tests and testing supplies, software, personal protective equipment and marketing services — online and printed — to testing sites, said a person who was formerly associated with the Center for COVID Control. Some of the sites are owned independently but operate in partnership with the chain under its name and with its guidance...