AWS HealthImaging

AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible cloud service from Amazon Web Services designed for healthcare and life science organizations and their software partners. It enables storage, analysis, and sharing of medical imaging data at petabyte scale, supporting both DICOM Web standard APIs for integration with existing applications and AWS-native APIs for cloud-first implementations.

The service is positioned for organizations at varying stages of their medical imaging cloud adoption, offering flexible integration paths depending on whether teams are migrating legacy workflows or building new cloud-native systems.

Key Benefits

• Reduced total cost of ownership: The service is structured to lower the overall costs associated with storing and managing medical imaging data at scale.
• Sub-second image access: HealthImaging provides fast retrieval of medical images, supporting time-sensitive clinical and analytical workflows.
• Enterprise-grade infrastructure management: AWS manages the underlying infrastructure, reducing the operational burden on healthcare IT teams.
• Flexible integration and improved performance: Supports both DICOM Web standard APIs and AWS-native APIs, allowing organizations to integrate with existing systems or build new cloud-first applications.

Use Cases

• Enterprise imaging: Supports large-scale medical imaging operations across healthcare organizations.
• Long-term archival: Provides petabyte-scale storage suitable for retaining medical imaging data over extended periods.
• AI/ML development: Enables access to imaging data for developing and training artificial intelligence and machine learning models in healthcare and life sciences.
• Multimodal analysis: Supports workflows that involve analyzing imaging data across multiple modalities or in combination with other data types.

Integration and Compliance

• HIPAA-eligible, making it suitable for use in regulated healthcare environments.
• Supports DICOM Web standard APIs for compatibility with existing medical imaging applications and systems.
• Also provides AWS-native APIs for organizations building cloud-first medical imaging solutions.