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GE HealthcareGE Healthcare Launches Cloud-Based Imaging Platform on AWS to Enable Healthcare Collaboration and Improve Patient Outcomes
GE Healthcare, a global medical imaging leader, addressed healthcare data silos and collaboration gaps by building the GE Health Cloud on AWS.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Enables image data collaboration across primary care, specialists, and multiple care settings to support more accurate diagnoses and clinical decision-making |
| Capability | Manages close to one petabyte of medical imaging data with durability and reliability through AWS infrastructure, supporting secure access across enterprises |
| Capability | Supports rapid global deployment of hundreds of applications to multiple countries with automated provisioning and federated access management |
| Capability | Establishes ecosystem for machine learning and innovation through Amazon SageMaker integration to create advanced diagnostic capabilities and new market opportunities |
GE Healthcare, a global leader in diagnostic imaging equipment and radiopharmaceuticals with over 500,000 medical devices deployed worldwide, faced significant barriers to healthcare collaboration. Up to 35 percent of patient cases were misdiagnosed due to clinicians' inability to access images, data, and medical records when needed. Healthcare providers struggled with fragmented systems, and industry analysis showed that improved interoperability could save healthcare ecosystems $30 billion annually. To address these challenges, GE Healthcare built the GE Health Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), creating a unified portal for radiologists and healthcare professionals to securely access, view, process, and share medical images and patient cases across enterprises.
The GE Health Cloud infrastructure leverages a suite of AWS services to deliver scalable, compliant healthcare data management. The platform runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and stores close to one petabyte of medical imaging data on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), providing the durability and reliability required for critical healthcare information. GE Healthcare uses Amazon Aurora for database services, AWS Service Catalog to automate cloud deployment, and Amazon Cognito to enable federated single sign-on, allowing customers to maintain existing credentials while accessing cloud applications. The company is also leveraging Amazon SageMaker for machine learning capabilities to support advanced analytics and diagnostic insights.
By running the GE Health Cloud on AWS, healthcare organizations can now collaborate more effectively across primary care, specialist services, and multiple care settings, while gaining secure access to advanced imaging visualization tools. The platform supports rapid global expansion, enabling GE Healthcare to deploy hundreds of applications to multiple countries quickly while maintaining governed data access for both clinical and research applications. This infrastructure positions GE Healthcare to extend the Health Cloud ecosystem with new offerings including device protocol management and care pathway analytics, ultimately supporting healthcare delivery organizations in improving operational productivity and patient outcomes. AWS's breadth of services and commitment to global health data compliance were critical to enabling GE Healthcare's vision of liberating data and applying machine learning to create smarter devices and new market opportunities.
