Amazon Web Services is expanding into AI for healthcare, launching a new agentic system that can handle patient calls, document clinical visits and automatically generate billing codes. Amazon Connect Health, announced Thursday morning, is the first industry-specific extension of the cloud giant's Amazon Connect system for call centers, which crossed the milestone of a $1 billion annual revenue run rate last year. It will compete in part with rival Microsoft, which acquired Nuance for $19.7 billion in 2022 and has embedded its DAX Copilot ambient documentation tool into major electronic health record systems. AI scribe startups have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to automate clinical documentation. Amazon is pitching Amazon Connect Health as a broader solution that spans the full healthcare workflow, from the initial phone call through the post-visit billing code.
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