Amazon has kicked off its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and made three major AI announcements.
During a midnight keynote, Amazon unveiled Transcribe Medical, SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes, and DeepComposer.
Transcribe Medical
The first announcement we’ll be talking about is likely to have the biggest impact on people’s lives soonest.
Transcribe Medical is designed to transcribe medical speech for primary care. The feature is aware of medical speech in addition to standard conversational diction.
Amazon says Transcribe Medical can be deployed across “thousands” of healthcare facilities to provide clinicians with secure note-taking abilities.
Transcribe Medical offers an API and can work with most microphone-equipped smart devices. The service is fully managed and sends back a stream of text in real-time.
Furthermore, and most importantly, Transcribe Medical is covered under AWS’ HIPAA eligibility and business associate addendum (BAA). This means that any customer that enters into a BAA with AWS can use Transcribe Medical to process and store personal health information legally.
SoundLines and Amgen are two partners which Amazon says are already using Transcribe Medical.