Overview
- The partnership was announced Tuesday and establishes the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub, powered by Amazon Web Services, as a joint academic‑clinical‑technology center based in the HELIX in New Brunswick.
- Operations are set to begin in fall 2026 with an inaugural cohort of up to five interdisciplinary student teams running four‑ to 10‑week rapid prototyping sprints on clinician‑identified problems.
- AWS will supply cloud computing credits, infrastructure access through its Cloud Innovation Centers, and direct technical mentorship from AWS engineers to help teams build and test AI and cloud tools.
- Project focus areas include clinical decision support, hospital operations, medical and interprofessional education, student health and wellness, and initiatives to advance health equity.
- Leaders say the long‑term goal is to move successful student prototypes into Rutgers’ academic programs and RWJBarnabas’ clinical innovation pipeline to create a self‑sustaining model for testing and deployment.