Amazon has set up a virtual innovation center that it hopes will help transform the way health care is delivered.
The Amazon Web Services cloud-based Interop.WORLD center will host challenges for individuals, organizations, and companies to develop cloud-based solutions that will solve health care issues and accelerate innovation, the Detroit Free Press reports.
One of the major obstacles to innovation in health IT is the lack of interoperability, which prevents the effective sharing of data and can make patient care more challenging.
The Michigan Health Information Network, which operates the center, says its goal is to speed up the process of getting new health care research and innovations into routine practice, a process that currently takes an average of 17 years.
"It's more innovation happening faster, in ways that have fewer unintended consequences," the institute's executive director tells the Free Press.
Participants will be supported with mentors and advice, including from Interop.
Community, which brings together companies to work with open platforms and open source software on interoperability challenges.
Other collaborators include the Health Enterprise USA and nonprofit Velatura Health Information Exchange.
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