Konica Minolta and Amazon Web Services to jointly develop medical diagnostics

2021: Select Cloud Service Provider

On April 8, 2021, Konica Minolta announced a cooperation agreement with Amazon Web Services. As part of the partnership, AWS has become the preferred cloud service provider for the direction of precision medicine Konica Minolta. So the companies plan to jointly develop an innovative platform that combines data for more accurate medical diagnostics.

According to the five-year agreement, Amazon Web Services will support the development of the LATTICETM initiative, which Konica Minolta offers worldwide. The LATTICETM platform combines various data in the field of genomics, pathological anatomy and radiology, as well as other spheres. Its main goal is to discover new clinically significant biomarkers and develop next-generation diagnostic tests.

To support the platform, Amazon invested in the direction of precision medicine Konica Minolta - the company Konica Minolta Precision Medicine. She specializes in comprehensive diagnosis and develops technologies that help predict, detect and treat diseases.

One of the most serious problems in the development of precision medicine is the lack of infrastructure to support translational bioinformatics. - notes Kiyotaka Fuji, chairman of Konica Minolta Precision Medicine. - With the Konica Minolta platform, customers can make greater use of dataset capabilities. And with the help of AWS services and our secure infrastructure, we will be able to introduce even more innovations by actively collaborating with an experienced team of specialists. So we will reduce the time it takes to move from understanding technology to discovering it.

Konica Minolta strives to make the exact medicine one available to the widest possible audience. The development of LATTICETM will help the company support customers around the world: conduct large-scale clinical trials and create diagnostic tools. The platform combines the scientific achievements of Konica Minolta and AWS opportunities artificial intelligence - including Amazon HealthLake developments, as well as storage and computing capabilities. data Konica Minolta will also use the safe AWS infrastructure to process, maintain and store protected medicine. medical information

Diagnosis is one of the cornerstones of precision medicine, and we are pleased to collaborate with Konica Minolta to expand and accelerate their innovation and develop accurate diagnosis globally with Amazon, HealthLake comments Taha Kass-Haute, director of machine learning at Amazon Web Services. - We see a revival of the healthcare and life sciences industry: more and more organizations are using cloud technologies and turning to us to find ways to reduce costs, improve treatment. As a result, it helps save more lives.