GE HealthCare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to develop foundation models and generative AI (Gen AI) tools to help enhance medical diagnostics and patient care.
The US medical technology company has selected AWS as its strategic cloud provider to use its healthcare and Gen AI services to build foundation models for the future of healthcare.
The AI workflows would deliver innovations, simplify healthcare operations, improve diagnostic accuracy, enhance patient outcomes, reduce access barriers, and promote equitable care.
Under the partnership, GE HealthCare will use Amazon Bedrock, a managed service that enables the creation and deployment of customised Gen AI applications for healthcare.
With Bedrock’s security and a wide range of foundation models, the medical technology company plans to develop unique Gen AI applications to enhance efficiency, care delivery, and the patient experience.
GE HealthCare’s developers will use Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI assistant, to advance software development by providing real-time code suggestions and completing tasks.
In addition, the company will use Amazon Q Business to integrate clinical and operational data, reducing the cognitive burden on physicians and enabling personalised care.
Using AWS’s Gen AI technology, GE HealthCare aims to reduce clinical application development cycles from years to months, speeding up the delivery of new healthcare solutions.
GE HealthCare president and CEO Peter Arduini said: “With more than one billion patients around the world touched by our products, we play an important part in improving the quality of care and have a responsibility to continue pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to enable precision care.
“This new collaboration with AWS allows us to build on our legacy of innovation by embracing the power of AI to expedite the creation of medical technologies that we expect will redefine clinical workflows and the delivery of care.”
GE HealthCare plans to advance its application suite using foundation models developed on Amazon SageMaker, which enables building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models.
Through its foundation models specialised foundation models for medical use cases, GE HealthCare will help advance the development of web-based medical imaging applications.
Its Gen AI-powered applications will integrate with AWS HealthLake and AWS HealthImaging, enabling secure analysis of patient data and improving clinical efficiency and patient care.
Furthermore, GE HealthCare has a long history of AI investment, securing 72 FDA approvals for AI-enabled devices in three consecutive years.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said: “With AWS, GE HealthCare plans to use the cloud to deliver more personalized, intelligent, and efficient care.
“GE HealthCare is putting generative AI at the heart of their innovation, accelerated by the investments we have made in healthcare-specific cloud services and generative AI capabilities that provide best-in-class security, data privacy, and access to the latest state-of-the-art foundation models.
“With AWS as their strategic cloud provider, GE HealthCare can build transformative clinical foundation models and applications for the healthcare industry.”
