Here is a summary and analysis of the key points from the case study:
title:: Hosting Medical Imaging Software Securely Using AWS with Siemens Healthineers publisher:: AWS organization:: Siemens Healthineers, HT Médica, Overon, AWS domain:: Healthcare, Cloud Computing, Medical Imaging
Summary
Siemens Healthineers collaborated with AWS Partner Overon to host its medical imaging software syngo.via on AWS for customer HT Médica. This allowed HT Médica to connect multiple radiology centers across Spain, improve radiologist access to imaging, address technician shortages, and offer consistent radiology tests regardless of location. The cloud-based solution reduced costs, improved scalability, and increased patient access to care.
This marks a truly transformative time for cloud technology in the healthcare sector,” says Dr. Razvan Ionasec, CTO of healthcare EMEA at AWS. “Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a significant surge in the adoption of cloud-native imaging solutions on AWS, along with the migration of imaging workloads to the cloud for production. Today, healthcare providers around the world strive to combine medical images with omics data and health records to deliver insights for precision medicine. AWS provides purpose-built healthcare services to improve clinical efficiency and, ultimately, patient care.”
Data Points
- HT Médica saw up to 50% reduction in licensing and hardware costs
- Solution deployment time reduced from weeks to hours
- Achieved optimal imaging latency for radiologists
- Uses Amazon WorkSpaces to provide virtual desktops for radiologists
- Runs on Amazon EC2, including C5 and G4 instances for compute and GPU needs
- Uses AWS Key Management Service for security and compliance
- Improved clinical outcomes and precision of radiologist reporting
- Scalable, multi-tenant solution that can be expanded to more hospitals
- First collaboration between Siemens Healthineers and Overon on AWS
- Validation process took 1 year before implementation