AWS HealthLake Cheat Sheet

AWS HealthLake is a fully managed, HIPAA-eligible service designed to help healthcare organizations store, transform, and analyze health data at scale. It supports the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) R4 specification for seamless data interoperability. It enables healthcare providers to extract insights from health data through powerful analytics and machine learning models.

Features

• FHIR R4 Data Store: Securely stores health data in a standardized FHIR format, making it easy to query and retrieve health information.

• Data Import: Supports importing data from Amazon S3, including clinical records, lab results, and insurance claims.

• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Automatically extracts meaningful insights from unstructured clinical notes, such as diagnoses, medications, and procedures.

• FHIR APIs: Provide standard FHIR APIs for data operations, enabling easy integration with other health systems.

• Analytics Integration: Seamless integration with Amazon Athena for querying and Amazon QuickSight for visualizing health data.

• Machine Learning Integration: Supports integration with Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy models using health data.

• Security and Compliance: Built to meet HIPAA and GDPR requirements, with encryption in transit and at rest, and the ability to manage access through AWS IAM.

Use Cases

• Healthcare Interoperability: Facilitates data exchange across healthcare systems to support regulations like the 21st Century Cures Act.

• Clinical Applications: Enables applications that provide a 360-degree view of patient health data.

• Predictive Disease Modeling: Uses machine learning models to predict health outcomes and trends in patient populations.

• Population Health Management: Analyzes health data to monitor and improve the health of large populations.

Security

• HIPAA Eligibility: AWS HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service, ensuring compliance with healthcare data privacy regulations compliance.

• Data Encryption: Supports encryption for data both at rest and in transit, with options for customer-managed encryption keys.

• Access Control: Integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide granular control over who can access health data.

• Audit Logging: Works with AWS CloudTrail to log and monitor access to HealthLake data for audit and security purposes.

Pricing

• Data Storage: Pricing is based on the volume of data stored in the HealthLake data store.

• Data Ingestion: Fees apply when importing data from Amazon S3 or other sources into the HealthLake store.

• Data Export: Charges are incurred when data is exported out of HealthLake.

• API Requests: Pricing is based on the number of API requests to interact with the service.

References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/what-is.html

https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/

https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/pricing/