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To expand its reach overseas and add new features to its population-health management platform, HealtheIntent, Cerner is using cloud-based services from Amazon Web Services.
As providers increasingly assume financial risk for patient populations, Cerner’s goal is to develop analytical tools and databases that will help its customers, primarily providers, succeed with reimbursement arrangements in which they assume financial risk for patient populations. In addition to sharing data for care coordination among providers, this also includes strategies to help consumers adopt healthy lifestyles.
That is why Cerner began moving some of HealtheIntent’s footprint to AWS two years ago. “We were looking for not only faster ways to speed innovation but also ways to connect across industries, connect with consumers and connect in different ways,” Ryan Hamilton, senior vice president of population health at Cerner, says.
Cerner is not alone. AWS has been actively courting healthcare customers, which now include providers, insurers, researchers, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in addition to technology companies. Some examples include Medsphere Systems, which is migrating its cloud-based EHR and population health software to AWS, and providers such as the Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health.
Hamilton spoke about the relationship between Cerner and AWS...