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GE Healthcare Launches Health Cloud on AWS, Improving Collaboration and Patient Outcomes

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • GE Health Cloud
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon EC2
Tech Stack
  • AWS Cloud
  • Amazon Cognito
  • AWS Service Catalog
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
  • Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
Applicable Industries
  • Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
  • Quality Assurance
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Remote Asset Management
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
  • Data Science Services
About The Customer
GE Healthcare is a subsidiary of General Electric, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The organization manufactures and distributes diagnostic imaging equipment, as well as imaging agents and radiopharmaceuticals used in medical imaging procedures. Founded in 1994, GE Healthcare operates globally and has a presence in more than 100 countries. The company is known for its medical imaging equipment and diagnostic imaging agents, but has been undergoing a digital transformation over the last several years. Every day, healthcare data flows through millions of medical devices, including more than 500,000 GE Healthcare medical imaging devices globally.
The Challenge
GE Healthcare, a leading manufacturer and distributor of diagnostic imaging equipment, was seeking to improve patient outcomes by reducing workflow processing time through the sharing of medical image data across specialists and referring physicians. The company wanted to increase the value derived from device usage and data by enabling the leverage of cloud compute, storage, and access. The challenge was that up to 35 percent of patient cases were being misdiagnosed, partially due to a lack of access to images, data, and records. Additionally, better interoperability between systems could save healthcare ecosystems $30 billion per year, according to GE Healthcare.
The Solution
To address the challenge, GE Healthcare launched the GE Health Cloud in the United States. This cloud-based solution provides radiologists and other healthcare professionals with a single portal to access enterprise imaging applications to view, process, and easily share images and patient cases. The GE Health Cloud runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, with close to 1 petabyte of medical imaging data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The company relies on Amazon Aurora as its database service, and it uses the AWS Service Catalog to create and manage IT services. GE Healthcare also takes advantage of Amazon Cognito for federated single sign-on to the Health Cloud for customers.
Operational Impact
  • Enabled image data collaboration across primary care, specialists, and care settings
  • Provided access and advanced visualization of imaging data
  • Established an ecosystem for innovation and helping to deliver higher value to connected devices and specialty applications
Quantitative Benefit
  • Potential savings of $30 billion per year through better interoperability between systems
  • Reduction in misdiagnosis rates

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