Florence, one of the UK’s fastest-growing healthcare technology companies, today announced it has been selected to participate in the AWS Healthcare Accelerator: Global Cohort for Workforce to advance solutions for addressing urgent challenges facing the healthcare workforce.
Healthcare workforce shortages are at crisis levels, driven by burnout, shrinking budgets, and the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic. As a result, patients may go untreated or experience delays in care, and healthcare workers need support now more than ever.
This AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a four-week technical, business, and mentorship program for startups seeking to use AWS to improve healthcare workforce training, retention, and deployment. This opportunity will support Florence’s efforts to innovate, evolve and accelerate its product offering for both healthcare organisations and professionals.
The AWS Healthcare Accelerator curriculum provides opportunities such as hands-on AWS Cloud and technical training, mentorship from healthcare leaders, and exposure to AWS customers and members of the AWS Partner Network. Florence may also receive AWS computing credits and opportunities to speak with investors and industry experts, including at a Demo Day where Florence’s platforms will be showcased.
Florence now serves more than a quarter of social care in the UK, working with over 90,000 nurses and healthcare workers, and over 4,000 organisations in both public and private sectors. The company has recently successfully expanded into France and Canada.
Florence is on a mission to fix the healthcare staffing gap. The company empowers nurses and other healthcare professionals to find flexible, fair, and transparent work options. It also enables long-term care homes, hospitals, and other organisations to sustainably fill open shifts in their schedule with highly skilled and vetted healthcare workers and provides virtual CPD-accredited training for individuals and organisations.
Florence is excited for the myriad opportunities the AWS Healthcare Accelerator can provide in helping to support its business, particularly around machine learning. Moreover, Florence is committed to maintaining a dialogue with customers in the UK and internationally to understand their challenges, as well with organizations like AWS and the other startups in the cohort to collaborate and problem-solve.
Dr. Charles Armitage; former NHS doctor, CEO and founder of Florence, added: “It is both an honour and privilege to have been selected to be part of theAWS Healthcare Accelerator . It marks another important milestone in the growth of the company and is a testament to the work we are doing in addressing the global healthcare staffing crisis. Tech is right at the core of our product; we’re using innovative solutions to help drive real change for a critical work issue. We’re excited to take advantage of AWS services to make sure our product can work even harder for all users.”
“Solutions to help clinicians as well as other office and technical staff in healthcare are needed urgently and globally,” said Dr. Rowland Illing, Chief Medical Officer and Director of International Public Sector Health at AWS. “We know that advancing cloud- and technology-enabled approaches can alleviate some of the burden, and we’re proud to be convening standout startups and healthcare leaders in this first-ever global Accelerator to do that.”
For more information on this AWS Healthcare Accelerator, visit https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com/AWS-Healthcare-Accelerator