The collaboration plans to support 25 projects over three years, with the hopes of creating 10 startups based at UNC. They will focus on enterprise systems, clinical services, patient-facing wellness, diagnostics and monitoring, and therapeutic interventions.
UNC faculty will utilize a cloud-native “software factory” run through Amazon Web Services, with services including artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. The cloud giant will also provide expertise in cybersecurity, biomedical research, high-performance computing and health informatics.
“With this approach, researchers can drop algorithms into a reusable container, snap together a mobile app front end along with a secure backend database, and deploy directly to enrolled patients in their studies,” said Eshelman Institute for Innovation’s Bob Dieterle, managing director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Digital Health Venture Studio, in a Nov. 30 university news release.
Eight projects have already started, including one that uses AI to minimize the risk of infection during the medication-compounding process.
