Amazon Web Services has worked with customers and partners throughout Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean for development and testing AWS Industry Mission: Healthcare and teach them how to build cloud solutions that can benefit healthcare and meet health IT needs for trained cloud talent.
why does it matter
AWS said it created the Comprehensive Cloud Training Program as part of its 2020 pledge to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million people around the world in Blog advertisement About last week’s launch.
Solution architects, engineers, business analysts, and decision makers with AWS technical proficiency can work with a number of AWS services in a simulated hospital in a live AWS console environment.
The 30 game-delivered tasks or lessons include monitoring, alerting, and remediation of non-HIPAA findings, extracting AI and machine learning insights from data, achieving healthcare interoperability, simplifying and automating pre-authorization models, and more. Program KPIs include overall patient satisfaction, medical equipment utilization, average patient waiting time, and more.
Players or learners can unlock new hospital equipment and furniture, such as MRI machines, x-ray machines, seats in the waiting area and more.
Rhonda Bush, senior vice president of customer success at AlayaCare, a Canada-based cloud platform for home health and infusion services, said in the blog post that she’s working with AWS on Healthcare Industry Quest training to provide more options for customers to exercise.
AWS said AlayaCare and Sirio Libanes Hospital in Brazil participated in the pilot testing.
“AlayaCare’s expertise in providing patient-centric cloud home care systems and the feedback provided was valuable in creating this interactive solution,” added Bryant Cundy, Director of Digital Learning for Training and Certification at AWS.
The biggest trend
Clinical burnout in a post-pandemic world is another healthcare challenge for which AWS has proposed cloud technology as a remedy.
In March, AWS announced the selection of 23 startups for a new AWS Healthcare Accelerator program focused on developing cloud-based solutions to help address the global shortage of healthcare workers.
Many of these startups are helping providers reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day operations, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing tasks, securing information exchange, advancing remote monitoring, and engaging patients and health workforces. Mobile and training. said Dr. Roland Elling, chief medical officer and director of international public sector health and the global venture capital and startups team at AWS.
“We believe that global collaboration between healthcare organizations and technology providers can improve the provider and patient experience as well as patient outcomes,” said Jeff Kratz, general manager, Global Public Partners at AWS. Healthcare Information Technology News In November when the AWS Healthcare Workforce Group opportunity was announced.
On the record
“From improving diagnostics to democratizing access to care to closing the health equity gap, cloud adoption offers many opportunities for healthcare organizations,” said John Davies, General Manager, Public Sector, AWS for Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean.
Andrea Fox is Senior Editor, Healthcare News for IT.
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