Name: Transforming Healthcare Provider Prior Authorization Workflows with AWS HealthLake
Start: 2025-08-28T16:42:00Z
End: 2025-08-28T16:42:44.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Explore how AWS cloud technology is transforming Healthcare and Life Sciences. Learn from leading organizations that leverage AWS to improve patient care, strengthen data security, increase data access, reduce costs, and scale operations with gen AI solutions. AWS can help you get the most out of your strategic investment through the industry's highest network availability, largest partner ecosystem, and comprehensive healthcare-specific services.

Thousands of healthcare providers, payors, government healthcare organizations, healthcare IT vendors, and research institutions use AWS solutions. We enable organizations to improve patient engagement and experience, provide insights, enhance care quality, increase efficiency, and reduce costs through a wide range of use cases. This Webinar covers the AWS Generative AI portfolio, key healthcare use cases, and factors for quickly building and deploying generative AI applications at scale. Live Demonstrations include Amazon PartyRock (a shareable generative AI app building playground for experimentation with powerful foundational models), coding & summarizing unstructured medical notes, building dynamic dashboards and using natural language for population/patient queries, creating natural human-like conversational AI experiences, and using state-of-the-art GenAI agents in a chatbot for multimodal healthcare data exploration.

Advancing Healthcare with Generative AI

Cigna Healthcare partnered with TCS to transform their sales and onboarding experience with a cloud-native solution built on AWS. In this session, learn how the innovative platform simplifies, streamlines, and standardizes the capabilities that helped their sales and operations teams deliver market-leading solutions with speed and precision and provided a leading-edge digital experience to stakeholders. This presentation is brought to you by Tata Consultancy Services, an AWS Partner.

Cigna’s sales and client onboarding transformation journey

Privacy is paramount in healthcare, where companies handle extremely sensitive patient health information, and strong cybersecurity is essential. Xsolis is an AI-driven technology company that has been improving efficiency and collaboration between healthcare providers and payers since 2013, and it needed to enhance its security posture to keep pace with its growth. In this session, explore how this fast-growing healthcare technology leader is achieving stringent HIPAA and HITRUST compliance, swiftly addressing vulnerabilities, and securely transitioning to a microservices architecture by partnering with Trend Micro. This presentation is brought to you by Trend Micro, an AWS Partner.

Data security in the cloud, from Xsolis, an AI leader in healthcare

AWS Marketplace is revolutionizing healthcare procurement, enabling health systems to streamline processes, accelerate cloud adoption, and drive digital transformation. This session explores how AWS Marketplace empowers healthcare customers to reinvent their software supply chain, transform patient experiences, and reduce provider burnout. Discover how the comprehensive offerings in AWS Marketplace, along with streamlined procurement and cost optimization capabilities, empower healthcare organizations to leave behind outdated processes, lower total cost of ownership, and accelerate time-to-value to deliver better patient outcomes and provider satisfaction.

Transform healthcare outcomes with AWS Marketplace

Discover how Cigna migrated their data interoperability platform to AWS HealthLake to lower TCO, improve platform scalability, and deliver personalized experiences to their members. Learn how Cigna developed a unified data interoperability layer across multiple businesses to power member applications and deliver real-time analytics, allowing for future innovation that will integrate generative AI for advanced insights and personalized care. Gain insights into how Cigna drives innovation, improves patient outcomes, and delivers exceptional value through their industry-leading healthcare solution on AWS.

Creating powerful member experiences: Cigna’s AWS HealthLake journey

The convergence of high performance computing (HPC), cloud, and AI is allowing AWS customers to drive innovation at an unprecedented pace. This powerful combination lets organizations leverage virtually unlimited compute capacity, accelerated computing, high-performance storage, advanced networking, and orchestration services for seamlessly running complex simulations and AI/ML workloads at scale. In this session, explore how customers across healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) and manufacturing industries are harnessing the convergence of HPC, cloud, and AI on AWS to accelerate time to insights, optimize performance, and drive innovation.

Drive innovation and results with high performance computing on AWS

While most workloads can be migrated to the cloud, some remain on premises or at the edge due to low latency, local data processing, or digital sovereignty needs. In this session, learn how AWS services like AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS IoT support hybrid cloud and edge computing workloads such as multiplayer gaming, high-frequency trading, medical imaging, smart manufacturing, and generative AI applications with data residency requirements.

AWS wherever you need it: From the cloud to the edge

Merck, a leading pharmaceutical company, constantly seeks new ways to speed its R&D. Its data and analytics team faced significant challenges extracting insights from its massive healthcare databases and found that writing complex SQL queries was time-consuming and error-prone. To address this, Merck collaborated with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to implement a generative AI text-to-SQL solution using Anthropic's Claude models on Amazon Bedrock. This innovation enables analysts to generate SQL queries from natural language with over 95% accuracy. Data workflows are now significantly streamlined, allowing Merck's scientists to make faster, more confident decisions and easily scale to incorporate additional databases.

Merck advances healthcare data extraction using text-to-SQL on AWS

Moderna, a pioneering biotechnology company and leader in mRNA medicine, has undergone a significant supply chain transformation over the past year. Through strong technology partnerships, Moderna’s supply chain and digital teams have worked cross-functionally to enhance vaccine replenishment strategies and optimize distribution processes. These advancements have also improved in-stock rates and minimized waste from expired products. This session looks into how AWS collaborated with Moderna to drive this critical transformation.

How Moderna Is building a healthier supply chain

Discover how Gilead Sciences accelerated their global digital transformation through collaboration with AWS Professional Services. Get inspired by their migration of over 2,000 servers from VMware on premises to AWS native services, retiring 1,400+ systems. Hear directly from Gilead leaders who spearheaded this initiative on their migration approach, the AWS tools and services they leveraged, and the best practices for selecting and migrating workloads to AWS. Being on AWS has enabled Gilead to accelerate modernization and innovation. Gain insights into how Gilead does more with their data and integrates emerging technologies like AI to accomplish their business goals.

Gilead Sciences' AWS migration: From VMware to cloud transformation

Learn how Gilead is building a state-of-the-art operational excellence model focused on cloud, data, AI/ML, generative AI, and enterprise architecture to enable the business to achieve priorities such as developing 10+ transformative therapies by 2030 and ending the HIV epidemic. This enables business users seamless access to cloud capabilities and data platforms. An operational excellence framework—including cloud operating model, organizational change, cross-functional application support and modernization—will enable business users to innovate and develop products with speed and intelligence. With AWS solutions, operational enhancements, and efficiencies, Gilead will continue to raise the bar in the pharmaceutical industry.

Gilead Sciences: Operational excellence for cloud, data, and AI/ML

In this session, discover how clinical diagnostics company Natera used AWS to transform their genomic data processing and unlock groundbreaking clinical insights. Learn how they seamlessly integrated their laboratory data workflows with AWS, enabling scalable and cost-effective processing of millions of clinical tests annually. Dive deep into their use of AWS HealthOmics, which helped power genomic analysis and personalized treatment mapping for oncology, women's health, and fetal health assessments. Take away valuable insights into the benefits of their AWS migration, including reduced costs, scalability, and robust data provenance

Scale clinical diagnostic operations: Natera's genomic innovation

In this session, learn how Merck is modernizing its drug discovery process with the integration of biological foundation models. Merck shares firsthand experience into how the company has modernized its generative biology inference stack using AWS HealthOmics, which helps them scale and unlock new insights.

How Merck improves drug design with biological foundation models

In this session, learn how Cognizant® TriZetto®, a leading healthcare software provider, modernized its software and processes and unlocked the power of data for healthcare payers and providers. This session explores TriZetto's journey to migrate mission-critical products like Facets and QNXT to AWS, optimizing costs, improving system availability, and enhancing operations through advanced analytics and AI. Learn how this migration enabled TriZetto to drive innovation and reduce operational costs through the power of cloud technology.

Accelerate healthcare innovation: TriZetto's data-powered approach

Keynote session of AWS Life Sciences Symposium on May 6, 2025.

AWS Life Sciences Symposium 2025 - Keynote

AWS B2B Data Interchange is a managed service that modernizes healthcare EDI workflows through automated processing and GenAI capabilities. This technical session demonstrates how healthcare organizations can streamline data exchange while maintaining compliance. Key features include automated EDI processing, trading partner management, GenAI-powered format conversions, and enhanced transaction monitoring. The session targets healthcare technology leaders, EDI specialists, architects, and compliance officers. Topics cover architecture, partner management, GenAI mappings, security, and implementation best practices. Basic EDI and healthcare data exchange knowledge is beneficial but optional.

Transforming your HCLS EDI workflows with AWS B2B Data Interchange

This Session demonstrated how Amazon Bedrock’s foundation models can transform healthcare prior authorization processes through AI-powered automation. The solution showcased efficient processing of medical criteria from LCDs, analysis of clinical documentation, and generation of compliance-aligned recommendations while maintaining auditability and interpretability for healthcare payors

Building Prior Authorization Systems for Healthcare Payors with Amazon Bedrock

The session demonstrated how AWS HealthLake’s FHIR capabilities combined with CDS Hooks can revolutionize healthcare prior authorization workflows through intelligent automation. The solution showcased streamlined implementation of Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD), real-time authorization checks, and GenAI-enhanced clinical workflows while maintaining compliance with CMS Burden Reduction Rule requirements. The architecture demonstrated seamless integration between provider systems and payer networks, enabling healthcare organizations to significantly reduce administrative overhead and accelerate patient care delivery through automated, FHIR-based authorization processes.

Transforming Healthcare Provider Prior Authorization Workflows with AWS HealthLake

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