Amazon Web Services and General Catalyst Announce New Partnership to Leverage AI in Healthcare
Amazon Web Services and venture capital firm General Catalyst announced a new multi-year partnership on Monday to tackle the growing artificial intelligence market in healthcare. The collaboration aims to help General Catalyst portfolio companies use AWS’ services to build and roll out AI tools for healthcare systems more quickly.
The partnership will kick off with Aidoc, which applies AI to medical imaging, and Commure, which automates provider workflows with AI. These companies will leverage AWS’ services to develop and deploy their products, with the goal of driving innovation and transforming the healthcare industry.
General Catalyst has a proven track record of investing in healthcare startups, closing over 60 digital health deals since 2020. The firm’s partnership with AWS aims to help its companies fast-track the development and go-to-market process by providing access to computing power and resources.
AWS is also well-positioned in the healthcare sector, offering more health- and life-sciences-specific services than any other cloud provider. The company has a strong presence in the industry and has inked high-profile AI partnerships with companies such as GE HealthCare, Philips, and others.
The partnership between General Catalyst and AWS will stretch over several years, with new tools from Aidoc and Commure expected to emerge in 2025. Aidoc is exploring how it can use the cloud to tap into data modalities across pathology, cardiology, genomics, and other molecular information.
Chris Bischoff, head of global healthcare investing at General Catalyst, emphasized the importance of partnerships in driving innovation in healthcare, stating that a strong partner like Amazon and AWS is essential to help companies accelerate their development and deployment.
AWS’ general manager of Healthcare & Life Science, Dan Sheeran, believes that the partnership will help serve as a way to meet the market’s growing demand for new solutions. “Health system leaders who want to realize the benefits of AI now have an easier way to accomplish that,” he said.