Amazon and AWS Help Improve Hospital Efficiency and Reduce Costs

In a recent note, I discussed howCerner was turning to Amazon/AWS for help in providing assistance with AI technology that an be embedded in its EHR product. One example was the deployment of a chatbot that can be used to interrogate the EHR for critical information that can be difficult to extract, particularly in the form of natural language (see:EHR Vendor Cerner Turns to Amazon Web Services for AI Development). In a recent article about Amazon's healthcare strategy for 2020 (see:15 things to know about Amazon's healthcare strategy heading into 2020), I was reminded of the relationship between Amazon andBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Here is a brief quote from that article:In March, [2019], Amazon made a $2 million investment in Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to test artificial intelligence tools. The two have partnered since 2016 when Beth Israel bought AWS's cloud software and reported significant improvements with operating efficiency.Here is a quote from another article about the same topic that provides more details about projects that have been initiated in this same program (see:Improving Patient Care with Machine Learning At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)An initial BIDMC research project used machine learning to optimize the schedules of its 41 operating rooms and align those schedules to improve patient flow in the inpatient setting. Another project has leveraged machine learning to improve operational flow within...
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