Amazon Web Services Partners with Conduent to Help Government Agencies Scale COVID-19 Responses
We are partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner Conduent (a business process and services company) to enable federal agencies, and state and local governments to better monitor the spread of COVID-19 and report on cases and potential exposures. Conduent’s outbreak management and control platform – Maven (powered by AWS)- can be rapidly deployed by healthcare organizations so that they can begin performing “contact traceability” across entire regions securely and on a large scale. In the United States, Conduent waives the software license fee for the COVID-19 Maven module until June 30, 2020, for qualified state and territorial public health agencies to help them fight COVID-19.
AWS Public Sector Partners address the challenges of COVID-19 around the world
Public Sector Partners within the AWS Partner Network (APN) have come forward to support communities during this global crisis. In Latin America, Why line uses artificial intelligence to reduce overcrowding and congestion in hospitals, allowing patients to view waiting times and join queues remotely. And in Chile, CloudHesive used its technology to help the government decrease the number of travelers waiting at airports to minimize exposure. In Italy, radiologists are using Exprivia II, a cloud-based system that applies machine learning to medical imaging, to track the spread of the new virus. public sector blog.
Amazon Web Services and Electronic Caregiver Help Healthcare Professionals Assess COVID-19 Symptoms Remotely
Amazon Lex is also powering smart hub technology for Electronic Caregiver, a provider of health and safety monitoring devices, to support the detection and treatment of COVID-19. The technology allows healthcare professionals to remotely monitor vital signs, such as high temperature and flu-like symptoms, via wearable devices. If a high temperature is detected, the technology triggers a voice interaction between the healthcare provider and the patient via the wearable device to check for symptoms and evaluate a COVID-19 risk score. The solution can also connect to a telemedicine service at the doctor’s request to provide additional remote diagnoses and prescriptions.
March 27
Amazon supports the Civil Protection and Italian non-profit organizations to support the fight against
COVID-19
We have allocated € 2.5 million to the Italian Civil Protection, to make a further contribution to its incredible commitment to the fight against Coronavirus. In addition, Amazon has donated € 1 million to support the efforts of the many non-profit organizations and entities operating in the territories and communities where Amazon employees live and work.
Donations are possible through Alexa and Amazon. it
We have also launched a “ button to donate ” on Amazon. the site and an Alexa skill to simplify the donations of all customers who want to make their contribution to Civil Protection. In this way, customers will be able to make donations with Amazon Pay, even small ones, through a few clicks, without making purchases, or by using the voice command “Alexa, I want to make a donation for the Coronavirus”.
March 26
A message from our founder and CEO Jeff Bezos
“What we are experiencing is not an ordinary business, but a time of great uncertainty. But it is also a time when our work is more important than ever.” Read Jeff Bezos’ full message.
March 25
Amazon Web Services Helps World Health Organization Accelerate COVID-19 Research
AWS is partnering with public healthcare organizations, government agencies, and businesses around the world to support their efforts resulting from the ripple effect of COVID-19. Among others, we are working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) to accelerate efforts to track down the virus, understand its spread and contain it. AWS provides WHO with advanced cloud technologies and supports them with technical expertise, ranging from building vast data lakes (or “data lakes”) that aggregate epidemiological data from countries, to rapidly translating medical training videos into multiple languages. and helping healthcare professionals around the world to better treat patients.
Prime Video for families
Prime Video has made available a selection of content for children and families for free.
March 21
Priority to Amazon Prime Orders
We have adopted specific distancing measures within our distribution centers so that our employees can work safely. This translates into the ability to focus our available capacity on products that have the highest priority and, starting today, we will temporarily stop accepting orders for certain non-essential products on Amazon.co.uk. This decision allows our distribution center employees to focus on receiving and shipping the products customers need most right now. Customers can still order many of these products from sales partners who ship directly. car washes
