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AWS Health Innovation Podcast

AWS Health Innovation Podcast

Amazon Web Services showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology.

#122, Revolutionizing Heart Failure Care Through Non-Invasive Sensing with Filip Peters from Acorai

Acorai is pioneering non-invasive cardiac monitoring technology that combines multiple sensors and machine learning to transform heart failure management, making critical pressure measurements accessible and continuous.
May 6, 2025

#121, Engineering Better Drugs Through Bacterial Intelligence with Nik Sharma & Mo Alomari from BioCorteX

Through their groundbreaking Carbon Mirror platform, BioCorteX is transforming pharmaceutical development by understanding how bacteria influence drug effectiveness across diverse populations.
April 25, 2025

#120, Predicting Trial Success Before Recruitment with Orr Inbar from QuantHealth

Discover how QuantHealth's simulation-based platform is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research by virtually testing clinical trial protocols, optimizing study designs, and predicting outcomes before trials begin.
April 8, 2025

#119, Transforming Medical Device Development with Alex Condon from Galen Data

Galen Data's comprehensive cloud platform empowers medical device companies to centralize data, maintain compliance, and accelerate time-to-market.
April 2, 2025

#118, Making Tomorrow’s Treatments Available Today with Michel van Harten MD, from myTomorrows

myTomorrows combines AI with healthcare expertise to solve the complex challenge of matching patients to clinical trials, making advanced treatment options more accessible worldwide.
March 11, 2025

#117, Breaking Down Healthcare Data Silos with Mika Newton from xCures

xCures revolutionizes healthcare data management by using artificial intelligence to unlock, organize, and analyze patient information trapped in disconnected systems, improving care.
March 4, 2025

#116, Programming Biology to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with Tharindi Hapuarachchi from Generate:Biomedicines

Generate:Biomedicines is pioneering generative biology at the intersection of AI and medicine, creating breakthrough therapeutics by designing and testing millions of proteins simultaneously.
February 25, 2025

#115, Improving Care One Heartbeat at a Time with Dr. Jim Mault, CEO and Founder of BioIntelliSense

BioIntelliSense is revolutionizing remote patient monitoring through their medical-grade BioButton® wearable device, delivering continuous vital sign trending and AI-powered clinical intelligence for both hospital and home care settings.
February 5, 2025
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AWS Health Innovation Podcast

The AWS Health Innovation Podcast is the first and only Amazon/AWS podcast featuring healthcare and life science startups and investors. We showcase innovative teams and people, providing a view into how they operate and drive progress. Our goal is to tell the stories behind health innovators, not just talk about technology. The intended audience are health innovators, investors and employees from healthcare & life sciences startups.

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Alex Merwin

Alex Merwin

Alex Merwin is an operations executive with over ten years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams at startups and global tech companies. He is passionate about helping healthcare innovators apply digital technologies to make their solutions more customer-centric, cost-efficient, and effective. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning a Bachelors in Marketing with an International Business Certificate. He also attended executive development courses at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He works at Amazon Web Services as Head of Growth for their Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups business.

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