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36 HEALTHCARE NEWS 36 Why health systems are choosing Amazon as their cloud provider By Naomi Diaz and Giles Bruce A s health systems look to improve operational and clinical efficiencies by creating shared infrastructures, Amazon Web Services' cloud is becoming increasingly popular. Here, three health system executives discuss why they chose Amazon as their preferred cloud provider over other Big Tech giants in the industry: Note: Responses have been lightly edited for clarity. John Kravitz. CIO of Geisinger (Danville, Pa.) We looked at all three of the major public cloud offerings. We did a request-for- proposal process, which was submitted to the major public cloud vendors. Interest was expressed by all three vendors; however, two of the cloud providers were very progressive. We evaluated our environment and what would best suit us as an organization. We looked at the reputation of the cloud providers we're going to be working with because it's really important for our reputation. We felt that Amazon has a strong reputation with a lot of cloud migrations in other industries. Healthcare is one of the newer industries for them. Keisuke Nakagawa, MD. Director of Innovation for Digital CoLab and Executive Director of the Cloud Innovation Center for UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.) We saw a really power- ful example of public, private partnership through this collabora- tion with AWS. We really felt like AWS saw and shared the mission that we had at UC Davis Health around reducing health disparities and working across both the public and private sector domains to realize that vision. When we work together to leverage each other's strengths, we can drive that innovation and thinking forward. Shafiq Rab, MD. Chief Digital Officer of Tus Medicine (Boston). We went to AWS for a couple of things. e No. 1 reason is customer obsession. We both believe in serving our customers with an obses- sion. Second is how fast the AWS hard drive was. ird, is that AWS was always willing to integrate with our teams. ey worked with us and Epic to help create the digital ecosystem and were always willing to learn with us. n Meditech partners with 2 UK health system trusts to build joint EHR system By Naomi Diaz E ast Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, part of the United Kingdom's National Health Service, will use Meditech Expanse to create a joint EHR system. The two NHS trusts and Meditech will work together to create the new system dubbed the Digital Clinical System, according to a July 5 press release. The aim of the EHR system is to replace their paper record-keeping system. Meditech will help East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to design the system based on their needs. Both trusts will then develop, build and test the system with the aim of launching it in 2024. "This collaboration between the two trusts provides a unique opportunity to transform the experience of both patients and staff," said Ged Murphy, chief executive of East Cheshire NHS Trust. "We must continue to embrace digital technology to become more flexible and meet the needs of a growing and aging population. This new elec- tronic patient record will play a vital role in that work." The trusts provide acute and community healthcare services to a patient population of more than 550,000 in the U.K. n 5 worst places for physicians to practice, per Medscape By Patsy Newitt M aine is the worst place in the U.S. for physicians to practice medicine in 2022, according to Medscape rankings released May 20. The medical news website's rankings are based on mal- practice payouts, compensation, cost of living and work- life balance, among other factors. Here are the five worst U.S. places to practice with the top suggested city or neighborhood: • Maine (Portland) • Maryland (Ellicott City) • West virginia (Morgantown) • Rhode Island (Providence) • Washington, D.C. (Adams Morgan) n