Healthcare IT News April 12, 2021
The second phase of the company’s Diagnostic Development Initiative will expand to include early disease detection, disease trajectory prognosis and public health genomics.
Amazon Web Services announced this week that it will distribute $12 million in computing credits and expertise toward cloud-powered early disease detection, prognosis, diagnostics and public health genomics projects.
Through its Diagnostic Development Initiative, the company says it aims to help organizations around the world better address diseases including – but not limited to – COVID-19.
“We have seen transformative innovations in how we diagnose disease over the past year, from machine learning-powered X-ray imagery analysis to new developments in rapid, high quality, and direct-to-consumer tests,” said Dr. Vin Gupta, chief medical officer of Amazon’s...