Baxter extends Amazon Web Services collaboration to support new digital health, data management projects

August 19, 2021

After tapping Amazon Web Services to transfer all of its physical data stores to the cloud, Baxter is re-upping its long-term partnership with the goal of putting those data to work.

The revamped collaboration will center on three core areas: building new digital health tools to unlock additional insights, making its supply chain and healthcare delivery processes more efficient, and drawing deeper insights from both internal and external business operations.

One project, for example, will see Baxter expand the reach of its DoseEdge software, which works alongside hospitals’ existing pharmacy information systems to automatically manage the preparation, inspection, tracking and reporting of medications as they’re routed from a hospital’s pharmacy to the patient’s bedside.

Though DoseEdge is already widely used in the U.S., Baxter said its expanded access to Amazon’s cloud storage and computing capabilities will make it easier and faster to bring the software to new hospitals and customize it to match up with local data privacy requirements.

Baxter is also hoping to adapt more rapidly to changes in the supply chain using AWS’ analytics tools, as it did during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to bump up manufacturing and speed up shipping times for its continuous renal replacement therapy products to treat acute kidney injury, which quickly emerged as a common side effect of critical coronavirus cases.

Read the source article at fiercebiotech.com
2021-08-03 16:57:58