How Servizo Galego de Saúde accelerates clinical trials with AWS

This article describes how Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS) uses AWS to build Innovatrial, a digital platform that accelerates clinical trials by addressing data fragmentation and patient recruitment challenges in European healthcare.

• Innovatrial is a trusted research environment built on Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS
• Uses Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena for centralized data lake and clinical data management
• Implements Amazon SageMaker with custom ML models for automated patient cohort identification
• Adheres to global standards: HL7/FHIR, CDISC, DICOM, and IHE profiles for interoperability
• Provides role-based access controls, audit logging, and compliance with GDPR and FDA regulations
• Reduces patient recruitment time from weeks to minutes using natural language processing
• Enables real-time monitoring dashboards via Amazon QuickSight for sponsors and CROs
• Supports decentralized and hybrid trial designs with remote patient participation
• Operationalizes FAIR principles for data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability
• Elastic AWS architecture scales from pilot studies to multinational collaborative networks

Innovatrial demonstrates how cloud infrastructure and AI can transform clinical research efficiency, patient recruitment, and regulatory compliance while maintaining security and data privacy.