Amazon Web Services, General Catalyst Announce Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and venture capital firm General Catalyst have announced a collaboration to focus on co-developing and deploying integrated AI-powered solutions that address critical needs in predictive and personalized care, interoperability, operational and clinical efficiency, diagnostics, and patient engagement.
Combining AWS’s technology expertise with General Catalyst's track record as an investor in outcome-driven healthcare, the companies seek to apply the power of AI to deliver more personalized care, derive insights on population health and disease progression, and help translate rapidly expanding scientific knowledge into impactful new care paradigms.
"AWS and General Catalyst believe that AI has immense potential to effect meaningful change in global health care,” says AWS CEO Matt Garman, in a statement. “Together, we are taking bold steps to improve patient outcomes and make quality care more accessible to all by embedding AI throughout the care journey."
One example the companies gave is the ability to drive more personalized healthcare by using disease-specific models that process diverse health data—such as radiology and pathology scans, genomic sequencing information, clinical trial data, and electronic health records—to help doctors and researchers identify patterns and diagnose, make predictions about treatment outcomes, offer insights into disease progression, and more.
AWS said it brings to the table its experience in deploying AI and machine learning across its thousands of health care and life sciences customers, as well as services built specifically for healthcare and life sciences use cases (like AWS HealthScribe, AWS HealthOmics, and AWS HealthImaging).
General Catalyst contributes its significant healthcare footprint, established through its portfolio companies and the recently launched Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo). Its portfolio companies including Commure and Aidoc will integrate their specialized technology solutions like Copilot Suite and aiOS with AWS's AI and data capabilities so health systems can deploy advanced, industry-specific cloud services to address critical needs at an unprecedented scale and speed.
"There's a palpable excitement about the potential of generative AI to transform healthcare," said Steve Davis, president and CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, in a statement. "We're eager to explore how it can enhance patient engagement through more personalized communication and education, and alleviate administrative burdens. Continuing our work with General Catalyst and AWS can help turn these possibilities into practical realities that can truly move the needle on care quality, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes."