AWS HealthLake

Securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data in the cloud.

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Overview

Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service that enables healthcare providers, payers, and life sciences companies to securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data at petabyte scale. It uses the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) format to structure data and provides a complete view of individual or patient population health data. HealthLake also leverages machine learning to extract meaningful information from the data.

✨ Key Features

  • HIPAA-eligible, secure data store
  • Transforms unstructured data into FHIR format using NLP
  • Supports FHIR R4 APIs for data access
  • Integrated medical natural language processing (NLP)
  • Analytics and machine learning capabilities
  • Serverless and scalable

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Built-in medical NLP and ontology linking
  • Focus on creating a large-scale data lake for analytics and ML
  • Leverages the breadth and depth of the AWS service ecosystem

Unique Value: Transforms unstructured and structured health data into a queryable, FHIR-formatted data lake, unlocking insights through integrated NLP and machine learning services.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Population health analytics Building a longitudinal record of patient history Optimizing hospital efficiency Developing personalized medicine applications Analyzing unstructured clinical notes

✅ Best For

  • Creating a centralized FHIR-based data lake for a health system
  • Using NLP to identify patient cohorts from clinical notes for research
  • Building dashboards to track quality measures across a patient population

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Real-time, transactional HL7v2 message routing (better suited for an integration engine).

🏆 Alternatives

Google Cloud Healthcare API Microsoft Azure Health Data Services InterSystems HealthShare Databricks

Compared to other cloud providers, HealthLake's key differentiator is its out-of-the-box medical NLP capabilities. It is more focused on analytics and ML than on transactional interoperability.

💻 Platforms

API Web

🔌 Integrations

Amazon SageMaker Amazon QuickSight Amazon S3 Other AWS services

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Live Chat
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (Paid support tiers available tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ HIPAA ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO/IEC 27001/27017/27018 ✓ SOC 1/2/3

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

✓ 14-day free trial

Free tier: A 12-month free tier is available with limits on storage and requests.

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