Amazon Web Services and Chapel Hill, N.C.-based University of North Carolina’s Eshelman Institute for Innovation are teaming up to help launch digital health startups, Becker’s reports.
The collaboration plans to support 25 projects over three years, with the hopes of creating 10 startups based at UNC. They will focus on enterprise systems, clinical services, patient-facing wellness, diagnostics and monitoring, and therapeutic interventions.
UNC faculty will utilize a cloud-native “software factory” run through Amazon Web Services, with services including artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. The cloud giant will also provide expertise in cybersecurity, biomedical research, high-performance computing and health informatics. Read more.
