AWS and General Catalyst partner to speed development [Video]

Amazon Web Services and venture capital firm General Catalyst on Monday announced a new multiyear partnership in their latest push to carve out a piece of health-care’s growing artificial intelligence market. 

Through the collaboration, General Catalyst portfolio companies will use AWS’ services to build and roll out AI tools for health systems more quickly. Aidoc, which applies AI to medical imaging, and Commure, which automates provider workflows with AI, will be the first two companies to participate.

No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement.

“Without a strong partner like Amazon and AWS to stand alongside them, to co-develop and support these companies … it’s not going to move as fast as we hope,” Chris Bischoff, head of global health-care investing at General Catalyst, told CNBC in an interview. 

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