At the recent AWS Summit conference in New York, Amazon announced the launch of AWS HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare software providers to build clinical applications that use speech recognition and generative AI to save clinicians time by generating clinical documentation.

With AWS HealthScribe, healthcare software providers can use a single API to automatically create robust transcripts, extract key details (e.g., medical terms and medications), and create summaries from doctor-patient discussions that can then be entered into an EHR system.

Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS HealthScribe makes it faster and easier for healthcare software providers to integrate generative AI capabilities into their application starting with two popular specialties (i.e., general medicine and orthopedics), without needing to manage the underlying machine learning (ML) infrastructure or train their own healthcare-specific large language models (LLMs).

“Our healthcare customers and partners tell us they want to spend more time creating innovative clinical care and research solutions for their patients while spending less time building, maintaining, and operating foundational health data capabilities,” said Bratin Saha, VP of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Services at AWS, in this press release. “That is why AWS has invested in building a portfolio of AI-powered, high-performance, and population-scale health applications so that clinicians can spend more time with the patients during their face-to-face or telehealth visits.”

According to this recent Healthcare Innovation article , three companies – 3M, ScribeEMR, and Babylon – are already using AWS HealthScribe to power their clinical applications.

AWS provided more insights into HealthScribe’s capabilities in this blog post. These include:

• Summarized clinical notes

• Rich consultation transcripts

• Transcript segmentation

• Evidence mapping

• Structured medical terms

As we know, AI in healthcare is a hot topic these days. That’s why we recently published this blog post about the benefits and dangers of AI in healthcare. AWS is certainly advancing the ball on AI, and we imagine many other big tech players will be following suit shortly as well.     

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