Transforming health services on AWS: PwC

Today, healthcare organizations are facing pressure to digitally transform their businesses to keep up with continual advancements in technology, new entrants to the industry and changing consumer expectations that continue to reshape the healthcare landscape. These challenges demand continual adaptation, collaboration, and innovation to maintain quality care delivery and operational efficiency in a dynamic market. Together with AWS, as a health services competency partner, we are revolutionizing the industry by tackling these challenges with purpose-built health services and solutions that help you achieve innovation faster, decrease costs, improve operational and clinical efficiency, and enhance patient care.

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Unlocking health services transformation through technology

Our core services and capabilities

Digitizing healthcare
Accelerating cloud migration and resiliency
Modernizing mainframes
Epic modernization on AWS
Data modernization

Digitizing healthcare

The continual integration of digital technologies and solutions in the healthcare industry continues to be a driver of transformation. We enable organizations to realize the most out of digitization by leveraging the capabilities of AWS, helping them to achieve their digitization goals and transform operations with the creation of a seamless, digital healthcare system. Driven by strategies for enhanced care coordination, efficiency and patient engagement, our systems streamline processes, provide data-driven insights that fuel informed decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and optimize resource allocation.

Accelerating cloud migration and resiliency

We help healthcare organizations accelerate cloud migration while building resiliency. Together with AWS, we help address key areas crucial for organizations in the healthcare industry:

1. Regulatory compliance: We assist organizations in meeting industry-specific regulations, conducting independent audits of cybersecurity programs, and confirming operational resilience.

2. Data and asset protection: With the increasing frequency of data-related disruptions and ransomware attacks, we help organizations protect their data and assets, decreasing the risk of financial and reputational damage.

3. Customer trust and reputation: A well-designed disaster recovery plan restores customer faith in the event of a crisis, confirming business continuity and reducing downtime.

4. Competitive advantage: Having a strong disaster recovery plan gives healthcare organizations a competitive edge in today's business landscape.

5. Speed of Innovation: By incorporating automated deployments in the cloud modernization approaches and by eliminating infrastructure capacity limitations, we enable healthcare organizations in expediting research and release of clinical products and services.

6. Improved Developer Productivity: By leveraging cloud native services in the cloud modernization architecture, we empower developers in building and testing prototypes rapidly and as a result they are able to deliver new capabilities for patients, clinicians, and researchers much faster.

Designing a customizable and scalable architecture with PwC and AWS enables organizations to better connect, secure, and safeguard environments, fueling resiliency and enabling effective monitoring, response, and recovery while migrating and modernizing in the cloud.

Modernizing mainframes

We assist healthcare organizations in driving mainframe modernization by migrating from traditional mainframes to a scalable cloud architecture on AWS. This transformation unlocks the overall potential of applications and data by leveraging cloud agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Modernizing mainframe applications on AWS allows for greater flexibility, scalability, and faster time-to-market for digital initiatives. AWS provides services like AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to facilitate a seamless migration process. By streamlining mainframe workloads with AWS' cloud infrastructure, underpinned with our strategy, organizations can reduce costs, improve performance, and unlock competitive advantage through advanced analytics, machine learning, and GenAI capabilities.

Together with AWS, we empower organizations to break free from legacy limitations, embrace scalable cloud architecture, and unlock new possibilities for growth and innovation.

Epic modernization on AWS

By deploying Epic, a comprehensive electronic health record system, on AWS, we are helping healthcare organizations to continually improve Epic environments, enhancing overall efficiency and customer experience with modular and hybrid designs. Modernizing Epic on AWS provides on-demand cloud resources and elasticity that help organizations to reduce costs, reallocate resources for valuable activities, and quickly resize infrastructure for growth. Together with AWS, we are helping healthcare organizations to maximize the benefit of Epic to unlock additional value.

Data modernization

We help health services organizations modernize data management and revolutionize healthcare by addressing the challenges of handling large, complex healthcare data while maintaining compliance and security. Our modern health data strategy improves patient care, communication, and data access while streamlining costs. Accessible data empowers clinicians for research and operations, and workflow automation reduces costs and improves efficiency. Together with AWS, we are improving outcomes at individual and population levels throughout a patient's healthcare journey, enabling healthcare organizations to maintain a competitive advantage.