Case Study: Flatiron Health achieves faster oncology research and HIPAA‑compliant patient-data security with Amazon Web Services

Flatiron Health - Customer Case Study

Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that organizes real-world oncology data to improve cancer care and research. It faced the dual challenge of extracting structured, high-quality information from large volumes of unstructured medical records while scaling analytics and meeting strict HIPAA and security requirements.

Flatiron migrated its OncoCloud applications and data-processing backbone to AWS—using EC2, S3 (over a petabyte of data), VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and other security tools—while combining cloud infrastructure with a team of 500+ clinical abstractors. The move delivered secure, auditable storage and fine‑grained access control, faster developer iteration through on-demand provisioning, and more organized, research-ready cancer data that accelerates collaboration and advances in cancer care.

Flatiron Health

Dan Eisenberg

Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager