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AWS re:Invent 2022 - Unifying healthcare, health research & patients through data (IMP102)

Summary

Erin Chu, Life Sciences Lead for the AWS Open Data Team, moderated a session with three speakers discussing the transition to cloud technology in healthcare and research.
Sri Periakrapin from the American College of Radiology (ACR) shared their journey to AWS, highlighting the creation of a Customer 360 Initiative and a data lake to overcome data silos and improve analytics.
Shoaib Muthi from the Allen Institute discussed their project to reverse engineer the human brain, emphasizing the need for a scalable cloud infrastructure to handle diverse data and the importance of community trust.
Michael Hun from the EB Research Partnership talked about empowering patients through technology, overcoming barriers to treatment, and building community, all facilitated by AWS.
The session underscored the importance of bringing resources to the data, the flexibility of cloud services, and the potential for AWS to support health equity and research initiatives.

The transition to cloud technology is driven by the need to handle growing data sizes, global collaboration, data diversity, and varied data applications.
AWS services like Athena, EC2, SageMaker, and Genomics CLI are enabling researchers to bring analytics and compute power directly to the data.
The American College of Radiology's move to AWS and the creation of a data lake has significantly improved their ability to standardize data and run analytics, demonstrating the power of cloud technology in solving complex data challenges.
The Allen Institute's brain knowledge platform project highlights the necessity of cloud scalability and the potential of machine learning to make sense of vast amounts of data.
The EB Research Partnership's use of AWS to build a patient-centric platform illustrates how technology can accelerate treatment and cure discovery for rare diseases.
The session highlighted the importance of proof of concept, finding the right partners, and creative funding solutions like the AWS Imagine Grant and Health Equity Initiative to support cloud-based projects in healthcare and research.