AWS April 2024 Roundup
Noteworthy AWS blog posts and platform updates from April 2024 that benefit healthcare and life sciences applications:
AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service (Apr 19, 2024)
AWS Resilience Hub provides customers with a single place to define, test, and track the resilience of their business and mission-critical applications, and helps avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service.
AWS HealthOmics announces support for reading sequence stores through Amazon S3 APIs (Apr 15, 2024)
AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data, and generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. The service can now read sequence store objects using Amazon S3 Access Points which provides compatibility benefits with tools like Integrated Genome Viewer (IGV), workflow engines, and tools built on HTSlib or Boto3.
Also: AWS HealthOmics now supports cross-account sharing for private workflows
AWS HealthImaging adds search parameters and extended search API responses (Apr 11, 2024)
AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With AWS HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while reducing infrastructure costs. The service’s search functionality has been upgraded so that customers can more easily find and access their medical imaging data in the cloud. These enhancements simplify finding any patient exam, for use as a clinical prior, to inform a clinical workflow, or for processing by medical imaging AI/ML models.
Detecting and remediating inactive user accounts with Amazon Cognito (April 9, 2024)
The article presents a solution for identifying inactive user accounts in Amazon Cognito and automatically disabling them.
AWS B2B Data Interchange is now HIPAA eligible and supports X12 version 5010 HIPAA transactions (April 4, 2024)
AWS B2B Data Interchange is now a HIPAA eligible service and supports X12 version 5010 HIPAA transaction sets. Covered entities such as healthcare insurers, payers, providers, plan administrators, and clearinghouses are now able to parse, validate, and transform EDI used to submit claims, verify eligibility, enroll policyholders, and exchange patient information.
