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39 INNOVATION Meet the 12 health IT innovators under 35, per MIT Review By Hannah Mitchell T he Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released its 2021 honorees for "35 Innova- tors Under 35." Here are 12 honorees in health IT: Shelley Ackerman, PhD. Age 29. Bolt era- peutics. She co-invented a novel immunother- apy treatment for difficult-to-treat cancers. Jie Xu, PhD. Age 33. Argonne National Labo- ratory. She invented printable skin-like elec- tronics that can be used for prosthetics and skin-worn medical sensors. Amay Bandodkar, PhD. Age 33. North Car- olina State University (Raleigh). He created self-powered biomedical sensors to make health tracking in wearables less cumbersome. Jonathan Gootenberg, PhD. Age 30. MIT. He revolutionized gene-editing tools to help patients fight cancer. Jacob Becra, PhD. Age 30. Strand er- apeutics. He co-founded and is CEO of a startup that innovated mRNA to see if it can be used in cancer treatment. Janice Chen, PhD. Age 30. Mammoth Bio- sciences. She used gene-editing tools to cre- ate new diagnostic tests. Sara Berger, PhD. Age 33. IBM Research. She deployed machine learning to help pa- tients manage pain and make pain manage- ment more accessible. Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD. Age 31. National Institutes of Health. Her test was one of the first able to show how many had been infected with COVID-19 by using an anti- body test to look for prior signs of infection. Emma Pierson, PhD. Age 30. Cornell Univer- sity (Ithaca, N.Y.). She utilized artificial intelli- gence to determine health disparities among genders, races and socioeconomic groups. Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD. Age 34. e University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He used AI to better treat tuberculosis infec- tions in patients. Shriya Srinivasan, PhD. Age 27. MIT. She invented a surgical technique that allows pa- tients with prosthetic limbs to feel touch. Nako Nakatsuka, PhD. Age 31. ETHZurich. She pioneered miniature biosensors that give sci- entists insight into dementia and depression. n Wellforce to move Epic infrastructure, 300 digital applications to Amazon's cloud platform By Jackie Drees B urlington, Mass.-based Wellforce is working with Amazon to move its entire digital healthcare ecosys- tem, including its Epic EHR infrastructure, to Ama- zon Web Services, according to a July 8 news release. Wellforce comprises Boston-based Tufts Medical Center, Circle Health, including Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital, and Medford, Mass.-based MelroseWakefield Healthcare. Six details: 1. Wellforce's new cloud platform on AWS includes the in- frastructure for Epic along with more than 300 supporting healthcare and business applications. 2. Wellforce plans to go live on the two new clinical sys- tems this September, with the full launch wrapping up in spring 2022. 3. Eight hundred Wellforce employees involved in the build, preparation and coding of the system currently have access to the full digital ecosystem. 4. The project is allowing Wellforce to migrate from its previous non-interoperable system of individual servers and switch over to platforms that use artificial intelligence and other technologies to support care delivery. 5. By moving its entire ecosystem to the cloud, Wellforce estimates it will save as much as 20 percent annually, or about $3 million, according to the news release. 6. Shafiq Rab, MD, CIO and chief digital officer at Well- force, is leading the cloud migration project. "We are creating a frictionless and culturally competent care environment for patients, physicians and the entire care team by migrating our entire digital healthcare eco- system to the AWS Cloud," he said in the news release. "This enables our Wellforce team to integrate data-driven intelligence into everyday health and care that is more se- cure, resilient and simple to use." n By moving its entire ecosystem to the cloud, Wellforce estimates it will save as much as 20 percent annually, or about $3 million.