Labfront is excited to announce our selection for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, a $60 million, three-year commitment, supporting organizations that are working to advance health equity.

Advancing Our Mission with AWS

The support from AWS will further our mission to make advanced health research tools and data analysis accessible to all researchers, regardless of their background, to improve health outcomes.

Labfront provides a powerful platform for collecting and analyzing data from wearable devices. By using AWS services, we’ll enhance our ability to process and analyze large datasets, enabling researchers to gain insights more quickly and accurately. This will help make health research more accessible and foster a more inclusive research environment.

Specifically, Labfront will use AWS services to:

• Enhance data processing: Use AWS’s scalable infrastructure to manage and analyze large amounts of health data from wearable devices.
• Improve accessibility: Ensure researchers worldwide have access to advanced tools for health data analysis, regardless of their resources.
• Advance health equity: Facilitate research addressing health disparities by providing the necessary technology to understand and tackle socioeconomic, ethnic, and gender health inequities.

AWS Initiative Support

“AWS believes individual health outcomes should not depend on socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or neighborhood,” said Maggie Carter, Director, Social Responsibility Impact at AWS. “Cloud technology can help address inequities in global health to expand access to the services people need to live longer, healthier lives–no matter who they are or where they live. Through the AWS Health Equity Initiative, we look forward to helping Labfront and other organizations worldwide use the power of cloud computing to advance health equity and improve health outcomes.”

Through the initiative, AWS offers AWS credits and customized technical expertise to selected organizations around the world that want to use AWS services to improve health outcomes and health equity in any of the following areas:

• Increasing access to high-quality, culturally responsive health services: Eligible projects can include synchronous healthcare (i.e., real-time telephone or audio-video interactions); increased access to high-quality diagnostic services; addressing bias in the diagnostic development process; and cleaning existing datasets to improve accuracy for race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or other data points that will help to advance health equity for all.
• Increasing access to responsive social and community support: Eligible projects can include leveraging technology to improve access to social services, nutrition, transportation, housing, or economic opportunities to improve health outcomes. Additionally, projects can support research to deepen the understanding of and inform strategies to address disparities in social determinants of health.
• Mitigating the impact of climate change on health and quality of life: Eligible projects must proactively address diverse environmental health threats in an adaptive and culturally responsive manner. Projects could leverage technology and data to control the spread of cross-species infectious diseases, utilize geospatial analysis for mapping outbreaks, and improve equitable air quality monitoring with enhanced community access and data analysis capabilities.

To learn more about the AWS initiative, visit AWS Health Equity 

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