Health Imaging July 31, 2023
The world’s most popular supplier of cloud services has become a dedicated radiology vendor.
Amazon Web Services announced the move last week, saying its offering—AWS HealthImaging—can help developers of cloud-native applications store, analyze and share medical imaging data at petabyte scale.
The company says healthcare providers can send data from imaging equipment straight to AWS HealthImaging for subsequent retrievals by radiologists working in PACS or other reading applications.
The announcement came as a blog post written by Tehsin Syed, general manager of Health AI, and Andy Schuetz, PhD, a principal product manager in the same division.
Among AWS’s product claims are low storage costs for image archives, thanks primarily to the infrastructure-obviating nature of the cloud, and simplified data migration...