AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service designed to assist healthcare and life science organizations in storing, analyzing, and sharing medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. It aims to reduce the total cost of ownership for medical imaging applications by up to 40% by allowing these applications to operate from a single copy of patient imaging data in the cloud.

AWS HealthImaging enhances performance through several features, including subsecond image retrieval latencies for both active and archived data. It utilizes SIMD-accelerated image decoding with High-Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K), which decodes images significantly faster than traditional methods. This efficient metadata encoding and lossless compression allow for quicker image loading without compromising quality.

AWS HealthImaging provides multiple benefits, including the ability to manage imaging workflows without the burden of infrastructure management, which allows healthcare providers to focus on patient care. Additionally, its scalable ingestion processes enable the parallel import of numerous DICOM studies, ensuring that historical archives can be integrated without disrupting ongoing clinical workloads.