GE Launches Cloud, AI-Based Health IT Imaging Platform on AWS

By Hannah Nelson

August 09, 2021 - GE Healthcare has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based imaging health IT solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers.

GE Healthcare plans to offer its Edison Health Services platform on AWS, providing customers the ability to integrate large amounts of data from disparate sources using the cloud.

“As the world moves towards a more virtualized and distributed care delivery model with home care, remote patient management, and increased use of AI, radiologists and other clinicians need easy access to data that is seamlessly integrated, aggregated, and visualized in applications and services across modalities and within their existing workflows,” Amit Phadnis, chief digital officer at GE Healthcare, said in a public statement.

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“By doing this at scale, we are helping to drive clinical outcomes and achieving our goals of transforming healthcare to be more efficient and personalized,” Phadnis continued.

The platform aims to provide customers with easier access to regulatory cleared AI algorithms and applications by integrating them into native EHR workflows.

“This is an exciting opportunity to combine the forces of GE Healthcare and AWS to help customers improve patient care. Hosting patient data in proven applications, coupled with advanced analytics and AI, leveraging the most secure, reliable and agile cloud, will enable care givers to deliver better and more personalized experiences for their patients,” said Rowland Illing, MD, director of international public sector health at AWS.

The first AI-enabled health IT tool from this collaboration available on the AWS offering is GE Healthcare’s Edison TruePACS (Picture Archive and Communication System). This cloud-based storage system provides hospitals with an AI-enabled, diagnostic imaging solution.

The vendor also plans to make additional products within its imaging portfolio available on AWS such as AI-based advanced image processing applications used by radiologists.

Upgrading PACS systems has long been a costly and slow process for hospitals and imaging centers. However, leveraging a cloud-based PACS solution could help reduce the need for complicated and lengthy PACS upgrades in the future, GE representatives noted.

“By allowing GE Healthcare and AWS to handle the backups and duplication of the data, we can reduce our backup workload on site while knowing our data is secure,” noted Richard Duemmling, chief of business operations at Neuro Imaging in Winter Park, Florida.

“From our perspective, this presents an opportunity for significant savings by eliminating the costs associated with onsite hosting and data storage,” Duemmling continued.

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