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How an open source EMR system has transformed patient healthcare in more than 50 countries

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Thoughtworks team first created Bahmni in 2012 for a charitable hospital in a remote part of central India, Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), through our social impact program. The hospital also needed a more efficient method to manage test results and pharmacy billing. Its clinics see around 40 patients daily, of which 15 to 20 are new.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

UK Biobank needed a purpose-built data platform with compute and data-storage capabilities that provided analysis tools in a centralized environment and the flexibility to manage increasing quantities of data, allowing researchers to work on the dataset with ease.

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Q&A: In Florida, JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford Champions Public Transit

State Tech Magazine

Since 2012, Ford — whom the American Public Transportation Association selected as Outstanding Public Transportation Manager in 2020 and President Barack Obama named a White House Champion of Change in 2015 — has served as the Jacksonville Transportation…

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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents

Peak Proposals

The result of this uncertainty is that the decision of how to manage references is not made until after the proposal is well underway, and the references are scattered across several locations. What Is a Reference Manager? A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references.

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Healthy people, healthy planet: Supporting sustainability in healthcare with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

In terms of technology, researchers are seeing that computing power demands are now doubling approximately every two months , as compared with every 24 months prior to 2012. For example, the anesthetic gases nitrous oxide and desflurane respectively trap 310 times and 2,540 times more heat than carbon dioxide.

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Creating AWS CloudFormation templates for AWS Ground Station DigIF workloads

AWS Public Sector Blog

Instead, this step is managed by the customer, allowing them to use a software defined radio (SDR) of their choosing for the demod/decode step. Signals are demodulated using software modems hosted in virtual machines managed by the customer, in either the same or separate VPCs. Amazon EC2 is depicted as an example compute resource.

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LocalGov Drupal on AWS serves as a digital transformation resource for local governments

AWS Public Sector Blog

website, launched in 2012. At Brighton & Hove City Council , in the south of England, I helped to build a website on the open source Drupal platform, a content management system used to run hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide.