One of the world’s largest healthcare companies
uses AWS technology to facilitate secure research collaboration,
deliver new diagnostic technologies, and unlock insights from
health data to improve patient care and health outcomes
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that the Roche
Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is using AWS for the majority of
its cloud workloads to help Roche extract greater value from its
health data. The company uses AWS capabilities in high performance
computing, analytics, machine learning, database, storage, and
security to accelerate drug discovery and development, and process
health data at scale to deliver high-quality, individually tailored
care. Roche also works with AWS Professional Services to integrate
its information technology (IT) systems so that it can securely
share data as needed both within the company and with key external
stakeholders such as academic institutions, regulatory agencies,
and healthcare providers, while Roche complies with laws and
guidelines to protect patient privacy.
AWS’s secure infrastructure and portfolio of services power
Roche’s personalized healthcare program. While biopharmaceutical
companies have been pursuing personalized medicine for over two
decades, only recently have advances in data, analytics, and
digital technology positioned the healthcare industry for
transformational change. Roche uses AWS analytics and database
services like Amazon OpenSearch Service (AWS’s service for
searching, visualizing, and analyzing up to petabytes of text and
unstructured data) and Amazon Aurora (AWS’s MySQL and
PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud) to
help it gain actionable insights from its enterprise, research,
clinical, digital health, and real-world patient data. With AWS,
Roche can examine health data at scale related to patients’ genetic
makeup, overall health, and drug efficacy and interactions,
analyzing structured datasets of de-identified patient data that
Roche anonymizes and aggregates to protect patient privacy. This
capability gives Roche researchers a more detailed understanding of
patient biology across larger patient populations, and can help
them identify patterns and outliers that inform development of
diagnostics and treatments.
“With profound advances in data, analytics, and digital
technology, we are transforming the way medicines are discovered
and developed, and how care is delivered to patients. AWS provides
us with high-performance and secure cloud solutions that help to
harness the power of data to improve patients’ lives,” said Dr.
Alan Hippe, CFO and CIO of Roche Group. “With AWS, we are bringing
together health data in new ways to better detect, diagnose, treat,
monitor, and manage diseases more effectively and efficiently for
the benefit of patients. Roche complies with all applicable data
privacy laws—including but not limited to the Swiss Data Protection
Act, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
and China’s Cybersecurity Law and associated data privacy
standard.”
AWS powers Roche’s use of digital technologies like smartphone
apps that can support healthcare professionals in providing
individually tailored care and allow patients to play a role in
managing their own health. AWS services such as AWS Lambda (a
serverless, event-driven compute service), Amazon Elastic
Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon SageMaker (AWS’s
service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and
deploy machine learning models quickly) allow Roche to ingest,
store, process, and rapidly analyze health data collected by smart
devices. For instance, Roche built and runs its mySugr app on AWS
to securely aggregate and analyze data such as blood glucose
measurements for patients with diabetes. Roche uses the app to
automatically pull and analyze data from smart meters to better
inform a patient’s schedule and dosing for medication. Across its
range of digital healthcare applications, Roche continuously and
securely collects and analyzes patient health data in the cloud,
giving the patient and their healthcare providers a more timely,
precise understanding of how diseases progress and respond to
treatment.
Roche also uses AWS’s scalable high performance computing
capabilities, along with AWS container and analytics services like
Amazon Redshift (AWS’s cloud data warehousing service), to securely
process and extract insights from dozens of petabytes of genomic
data from more than 300,000 consenting cancer patients globally
while maintaining patient privacy. Roche uses Amazon FSx for Lustre
(AWS’s service that provides cost-effective, high-performance,
scalable storage for compute workloads) to store that genomic data
and make it quickly available for analysis. With the support of
AWS, Roche continues to expand its knowledge base of cancers to
identify future cases more rapidly.
Roche enhances the value of its tumor-profiling work with
patient health insights derived from aggregated electronic health
records it processes on AWS. Roche runs its analytics, machine
learning, storage, and managed database applications on AWS,
helping it extract and standardize high-quality data from more than
3 million electronic health records to produce de-identified,
real-world patient datasets. These include petabytes of oncology
data and other protected health information that Roche researchers
use to guide their work and inform the design of clinical
trials.
“With AWS powering its research, development, and healthcare
operations, Roche can deliver timely, relevant data that helps
scientists collaborate more securely and effectively, researchers
design more efficient clinical trials, caregivers make decisions
with more accuracy, and patients take greater control over their
health,” said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development
and Industries at Amazon Web Services. “AWS is helping the
healthcare and life sciences industry cross the threshold of
personalized medicine, reduce the time and cost for clinical
trials, and improve patients’ health outcomes through digital
healthcare. With AWS, Roche is turning complex health data into a
resource rather than an obstacle and reducing the time it takes to
get new medicines into the hands of patients.”
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things
(IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR
and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions,
with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more
AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New
Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions
of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power
their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn
more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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