Clinical trials transformation: Mobile data capture
Below is a common, HIPAA-eligible architecture pattern that AWS customers are using to incorporate mobile
technologies into their clinical trials for improved access and better evidence generation.
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon
QuickSight
AWS Cloud
Amazon Kinesis
Data Firehose
Amazon SNS
Amazon S3 –
Raw Data
Amazon
Redshift
AWS
Glue
Amazon S3 –
Processed Data
Lambda
Function
Amazon
DynamoDB
Lambda
Function
Lambda
Function
Clinic / Patient Home
Medical Sensor
Mobile Client
Trial Investigators
/Coordinators
Trial Participants
Medical Device
Edge collector
Investigator
triggered alerts
Android
iOS
System driven alerts
AWS IoT Core
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Collect real-time, streaming data from medical devices
and personal wearables. These are typically connected
to an edge node or a smartphone to provide sufficient
computing resources for streaming data to AWS IoT
Core, which can then be configured to write data to
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in near real-time. The
edge node/smartphone uses AWS IoT SDKs to publish
and subscribe device data to AWS IoT core using various
AWS provided authentication methods. Customers can
use the Amazon Kinesis server-side encryption feature,
to achieve encryption-at-rest. Amazon Kinesis provides a
scalable, highly available way to achieve loose coupling
between data-producing (medical devices) and data-
consuming (Amazon Lambda) layers.
AWS can also capture additional data, such as Case
Report Forms (CRF), Electronic Medical Records
(EMR), medical images utilizing Picture Archiving and
Communication Systems (PACS), laboratory data (Labs),
and other Patient Reported Outcomes data (ePRO).
AWS provides multiple tools and services to effectively
and securely connect to these data sources, allowing
customers to ingest data in various volumes, varieties,
and velocities.
COLLECT DATA
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