Case Study: University of Calgary advances decentralized health research with AWS

University of Calgary expands mobile health research to 1,000+ participants with AWS

The University of Calgary faced a challenge in traditional health research, which required participants to travel to central locations, creating significant barriers to participation and limiting data collection to periodic snapshots. To overcome this, they launched the ResearchAlly initiative and partnered with Amazon Web Services to build a decentralized, mobile health research platform using services like AWS Amplify.

The solution built on AWS provided a secure, scalable foundation for collecting continuous, real-world health data. By using Amazon Web Services, the university was able to rapidly launch new research initiatives. The results were significant, with one project, SpineAlly, engaging over 1,000 participants across all 50 US states and 10 Canadian provinces, collecting more than 125 million health data points in a matter of months.

University of Calgary