More on Amazon/Cerner

I expect we’ll get more info in the coming days, but here’s an overview:

Amazon is expected to announce this week a major partnership with Cerner Corp. this week.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, plans to announce the collaboration at the company’s re:Invent conference this week, CNBC reports. Jassy is scheduled to deliver the conference’s keynote address on Wednesday.

According to CNBC, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit will work with Cerner and the North Kansas City company’s HealtheIntent product. Citing unnamed sources, the report said that AWS and Cerner are in the late stages of talks.

The population health management product allows health care systems to analyze data to predict outcomes within a population. This can allow systems to step in earlier to improve patients’ health and to coordinate care. For example, a pilot program with Truman Medical Centers will use the platform to track patients with heart failure and diabetes and send automated alerts to care providers when intervention is necessary.

A Cerner executive gave a presentation on HealtheIntent and the use of AWS’s storage and computing power with the product at last year’s re:Invent conference.

A more extensive teaming of AWS and Cerner on population health could help both giants expand upon their efforts as health care providers turn to big data as a means of improving care and cutting costs. In July, CNBC reported that Amazon had created a special stealth team to focus on opportunities with electronic medical records and telemedicine. On the consumer side, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last month that Amazon had received wholesale pharmacy licenses in at least a dozen states.

Posted by on November 27th, 2017 at 10:11 am


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