AWS HealthScribe Cheat Sheet

AWS HealthScribe is a HIPAA-eligible service designed to help healthcare software vendors create clinical applications automatically generating preliminary clinical notes from patient-clinician conversations. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, it simplifies integration by leveraging speech recognition and generative AI, without the need for managing machine learning infrastructure.

It is available exclusively in the US East (N. Virginia) region (us-east-1). This means that to utilize AWS HealthScribe, your AWS resources, such as Amazon S3 buckets for storing audio files and output data, must be located within the same region. Considering this regional limitation when planning your infrastructure is essential to ensure compatibility and optimal performance.

Features

• Summarized Clinical Notes: Generates clinical notes across sections such as chief complaint, history of present illness, and treatment plan.

• Medical Term Extraction: Identifies medical conditions, medications, and treatments from conversation transcripts.

• Rich Consultation Transcripts: Provides detailed transcripts with word-level timestamps for turn-by-turn dialogue.

• Speaker Role Identification: Distinguishes between clinician and patient dialogues.

• Transcript Segmentation: Organizes dialogues into relevant sections like small, subjective, and objective talk.



• Evidence Mapping: Links sentences in generated notes to corresponding portions of the consultation transcript for verification.

Use Cases

• Reducing Documentation Time: Automates the generation of clinical notes, enabling quicker documentation for clinicians.

• Enhancing Medical Scribe Efficiency: Helps medical scribes create accurate clinical notes using AI-generated transcripts.

• Creating Patient-Friendly Consultation Recaps: Delivers summaries so patients can easily understand their consultation details.

Security

• HIPAA-Eligible: AWS HealthScribe complies with HIPAA standards, ensuring that healthcare organizations meet regulatory requirements.

• Data Privacy: AWS does not use customer data to train models, and customers control where their data is stored.

• Data Encryption: Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, ensuring patient privacy and security.

Pricing

• AWS HealthScribe follows a pay-as-you-go model with no upfront costs. It offers 300 minutes of free usage per month for the first two months under the AWS Free Tier.

References:

Generate clinical notes with AI – AWS HealthScribe – AWS

AWS HealthScribe – Amazon Transcribe

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