November 18, 2019 NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life Image, one of the world’s largest medical evidence networks for clinical and imaging data, and its strategic partner, Graticule, an advanced real world data firm, announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it easy for millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.

“What gets many of our customers excited about AWS Data Exchange is the number of innovative organizations offering novel and unique data on the service,” said Stephen Orban, General Manager, AWS Data Exchange, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are delighted to welcome Life Image and Graticule to the AWS Data Exchange to help the medical community improve patient care.”

Graticule has published GLIMPS in the AWS Data Exchange. GLIMPS is a de-identified patient level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing from Life Image data, which has been de-identified using industry-leading tools with Life Image’s own expert determination service that uses a combination of human validators with a proprietary machine learning algorithm specifically designed to catch personal health information (PHI) that can be hiding within the image pixels or meta tags. The HIPAA-compliant repository of diagnostic images provides insights from a broad set of geographically-diverse providers in the U.S. that contain a rapidly growing cohort of 140,000 patients, 360,000 studies, and 92 million de-identified images. Because much of the important data in imaging is stored in unstructured reports or within images, it is difficult to construct queries to identify studies with features of interest to solve researcher questions. GLIMPS provides a safe, structured view of the patient-level medical information by providing coded values using open vocabularies such as ICD9 or SNOMED to execute feasibility analysis.
“Diagnostic images and radiology reports contain interpretations and other information that provide rich diagnostic and outcomes data but have historically been extremely difficult to access and aggregate at scale,” said Dan Housman, CTO and Co-founder of Graticule. “AWS Data Exchange provides a sea change opportunity that allows us to distribute our data to provide a transparent view of available images and tools to deliver deeper data insights on demand.”

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