AI-Powered Patient Profiles with Amazon Web Services HealthLake and Amazon Bedrock

Healthcare providers today face an overwhelming challenge: managing vast amounts of patient data spread across electronic health records (EHRs). Physicians often spend more time navigating through medical histories, lab results, and past diagnoses than they do interacting with patients. This overload not only reduces face-to-face patient time but also contributes to clinician burnout and overlooked critical insights.

To address this challenge, Amazon Web Services developed a solution that combines AWS HealthLake, Amazon Bedrock, and other AWS services. Together, they enable generative AI-powered patient profile summarization—a technology that consolidates complex patient records into clear, structured summaries tailored to each healthcare professional’s needs.

The Challenge: Data Overload in Healthcare

Research shows that nearly 50% of physicians’ time is spent on EHR and desk work, compared to only 27% on direct patient interaction. Common pain points include:

• Data fragmentation: Patient records scattered across multiple systems and formats.
• Time pressure: Limited time to review records before appointments.
• Information overload: Difficulty prioritizing relevant insights.
• Context switching: Constantly navigating across multiple EHR sections.
• Cognitive load: High mental effort needed to synthesize patient information.

AWS HealthLake: The Foundation for Smart Healthcare Data

Amazon Web Services HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service designed to unify and analyze healthcare data using the FHIR R4 standard. It enables:

• Standardized data management: Store and access healthcare data in a consistent, interoperable format.
• Interoperability compliance: Meet 21st Century Cures Act requirements for patient data access.
• NLP capabilities: Extract insights from unstructured medical notes using built-in natural language processing.
• Integration with other AWS services: Combine with AWS HealthImaging and AWS HealthOmics for precision medicine.

This makes HealthLake the ideal foundation for AI-driven healthcare solutions.

The Solution: AI-Powered Patient Profile Summarization

By combining Amazon Web Services HealthLake with Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services, healthcare providers can automatically generate role-based, context-aware patient summaries.

Key components include:

• AWS HealthLake for standardized patient data management.
• Amazon Bedrock (with Anthropic Claude 3.5 models) for AI-driven summaries.
• AWS Lambda & API Gateway for serverless processing.
• Amazon S3 for secure storage.
• Amazon Textract for extracting text from PDFs and medical images.

Key Features

1. Role-based summaries: Tailored for specialties (e.g., cardiology, dermatology).
2. Context awareness: Different summaries for pre-visit, in-visit, or post-visit use.
3. Comprehensive integration: Pulls data from patient records, lab results, imaging, and more.
4. Structured outputs: Clear sections for medications, changes since last visit, and recommendations.
5. Asynchronous processing: Handles complex workloads without delays.

Benefits for Healthcare Organizations

Implementing this AI-powered summarization solution delivers measurable results:

• Time savings: Reduce patient record review from hours to seconds.
• Improved workflows: More informed clinical decisions with less effort.
• Increased productivity: See more patients without sacrificing quality.
• Reduced burnout: Lighter administrative load for clinicians.
• Better patient experience: More meaningful face-to-face interactions.

Extending the Use Cases

Beyond patient visit preparation, this architecture can also be applied to:

• Clinical trial participant screening.
• Hospital discharge planning.
• Chronic disease management.
• Telemedicine visit preparation.
• Population health management.

Conclusion

The combination of Amazon Web Services HealthLake and Amazon Bedrock enables healthcare providers to overcome one of the industry’s biggest challenges: data overload. By automating patient profile summarization, organizations can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver better patient outcomes.

As an official AWS partner, Softprom supports healthcare providers in adopting these innovative solutions to transform patient care.