Cerner has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred artificial intelligence and machine learning provider. It will continue to use AWS technologies to improve patient provider experience, boost population health efforts and tackle healthcare costs.
Cerner will migrate core applications to AWS. In addition, the company will standardize its AI and machine learning workloads on AWS to develop new predictive technology.
Cerner CEO Brent Shafer said that the digitization of health care has led to an increase in documentation for physicians. Working with AWS will let us capture doctor-patient interaction and integrate it directly into the electronic workflow of the physicians. It will help doctors and providers spend lesser time filling forms and spend more quality time with patients.
Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS said Cerner will leverage comprehensive machine learning and analytics services to get new clinical and business insights that have the potential to significantly improve the delivery of patient care. By running their workloads on AWS, Cerner will drive a new era of health system interoperability and data portability to improve health outcomes across the continuum of care.
Last summer, Cerner announced that AWS would be its preferred cloud provider. It noted that its hosted services especially those involving AI and machine learning will enable advances in interoperability and data portability to help improve health outcomes across the continuum of care.
Among the first new machine learning initiatives AWS and Cerner will tackle readmission prevention and clinical burnout.