Becker's Healthcare July 31, 2023
Amazon Web Services is joining Microsoft and Google in the increasingly crowded healthcare AI market; hospital IT leaders told Becker’s that the move opens up new innovation possibilities for healthcare.
Shafiq Rab, MD, CIO and chief digital officer at Boston-based Tufts Medicine, an AWS partner, said the competition will push tech disruptors to create the best possible product for clinicians.
“AWS is a good company. They have entered the race and started a competition. Now, other people have to step up,” said Dr. Rab.
The company’s newly launched AWS HealthScribe tool uses both speech recognition and generative AI to create a summary of patient and clinician conversations that can be uploaded to the EHR. Dr. Rab stressed that...