Using Amazon HealthLake as a health data store

Amazon HealthLake is an end-to-end HIPAA-eligible machine learning service that provides health, healthcare, and life sciences customers with a complete view of their patients, with analytic and query functionality. What do we mean by HIPAA eligible? An HIPAA-eligible AI service is one that can be configured to meet HIPAA compliance requirements. For example, the service offers different encryption mechanisms to support security at rest, but it is the responsibility of a person to configure the required type of encryption mechanism as per their compliance requirements. Figure 7.1 is a high-level diagram of Amazon HealthLake being fed both structured and unstructured health data. Health data is enriched and normalized for further analytics, search, or machine learning use cases.

Figure 7.1 – Amazon HealthLake

You can input any health data, such as medical reports, doctor’s notes, and lab reports, in...