What we’re about
The Boston Healthcare Cloud & AI Community hosts in-person and streamed meetings and events. We have chapters in three countries to date.
We serve the international healthcare cloud community from our Boston location by providing industry experts a community to share on healthcare technology topics. Meetings are on the last Wednesday of every month.
MISSION
The Boston Healthcare Cloud & AI Community (BOSHUG) brings together a diverse group of innovators united by a shared vision, to harness the power of cloud computing and AI to improve healthcare outcomes, enhance patient experiences, and foster collaborative innovation among providers, members, and researchers.
Topics include, but not limited to: #healthcare #HIT #AI #medtech #IndustryCloud #PatientExperience #PatientCare #healthtech #healthit #WomenInHIT #EHR #EMR #FHIR #medtech #PatientExperience #healthcloud #HLS #FHIR #hybridcare #healthequity #acutecare
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Featured event
GxP Compliance with Azure and AWS Hosted SQL Server
Deploying GxP-compliant environments in the cloud presents unique regulatory and technical challenges, especially when hosting SQL Server.
Join us as we explore practical configuration steps, documentation best practices, and shared responsibility strategies to ensure audit readiness and data integrity across your regulated life sciences systems.
📢 Get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
What You’ll Learn
- How to design and configure SQL Server on Azure for GxP compliance.
- How to design and configure SQL Server on AWS RDS for GxP compliance.
- Key techniques for enabling audit trails, access control, and data integrity.
- Understanding FDA 21 CFR Part 11 requirements within AWS and SQL Server.
- Best practices for documentation, validation, and maintaining continuous compliance.
- Insights into shared responsibility models and how to prepare for audits effectively.
Who Should Attend
- IT and cloud architects supporting life sciences and healthcare organizations.
- Regulatory and quality professionals involved in GxP validation and compliance.
- Database administrators (DBAs) manage SQL Server environments.
- Healthcare AI and data teams seeking compliant, scalable infrastructure solutions.
📣 Introducing our Speaker:
Selvamurugan Ramamoorthy
Principal Data Engineer, Moderna
With over 19 years of IT experience, Selvamurugan specializes in data engineering and database architecture for regulated industries. He designs and manages secure, scalable, and compliant data platforms across on-premises, Azure, and AWS environments, leveraging technologies like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more.
His expertise in data integrity, security, and regulatory compliance (GxP, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11) helps organizations build trusted, insight-driven platforms that fuel innovation and digital transformation.
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📍 WHERE & WHEN:
Date: MONDAY, Jan 26th at 5:30 PM EST
Venue: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
Address: 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
Floor: M
Conference Room: Deborah Sampson
📢 If you're attending in person, please get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
📌 We will also stream this meeting: https://www.youtube.com/live/cLWRX5VzXJI?si=oueG6gecK7HLGA9M
Upcoming events
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GxP Compliance with Azure and AWS Hosted SQL Server
Microsoft New England Research and Development, 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA, USDeploying GxP-compliant environments in the cloud presents unique regulatory and technical challenges, especially when hosting SQL Server.
Join us as we explore practical configuration steps, documentation best practices, and shared responsibility strategies to ensure audit readiness and data integrity across your regulated life sciences systems.
📢 Get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
What You’ll Learn
- How to design and configure SQL Server on Azure for GxP compliance.
- How to design and configure SQL Server on AWS RDS for GxP compliance.
- Key techniques for enabling audit trails, access control, and data integrity.
- Understanding FDA 21 CFR Part 11 requirements within AWS and SQL Server.
- Best practices for documentation, validation, and maintaining continuous compliance.
- Insights into shared responsibility models and how to prepare for audits effectively.
Who Should Attend
- IT and cloud architects supporting life sciences and healthcare organizations.
- Regulatory and quality professionals involved in GxP validation and compliance.
- Database administrators (DBAs) manage SQL Server environments.
- Healthcare AI and data teams seeking compliant, scalable infrastructure solutions.
📣 Introducing our Speaker:
Selvamurugan Ramamoorthy
Principal Data Engineer, Moderna
With over 19 years of IT experience, Selvamurugan specializes in data engineering and database architecture for regulated industries. He designs and manages secure, scalable, and compliant data platforms across on-premises, Azure, and AWS environments, leveraging technologies like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more.
His expertise in data integrity, security, and regulatory compliance (GxP, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11) helps organizations build trusted, insight-driven platforms that fuel innovation and digital transformation.
***
📍 WHERE & WHEN:
Date: MONDAY, Jan 26th at 5:30 PM EST
Venue: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
Address: 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
Floor: M
Conference Room: Deborah Sampson
📢 If you're attending in person, please get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
📌 We will also stream this meeting: https://www.youtube.com/live/cLWRX5VzXJI?si=oueG6gecK7HLGA9M16 attendees
Designing Human-Centered AI in Healthcare
5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA, USHealthcare is one of the most complex and high-stakes environments for applying AI.
Beyond technical performance, success depends on how well AI tools integrate into real clinical workflows, support human judgment, and earn trust from providers.
📢 Get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
In this February community meetup, we’re excited to welcome Mia (Yingran) Zhang, Senior UX Designer at athenahealth, for a practical and thoughtful session on designing human-centered AI in healthcare.
Session Overview:
This session shares real-world lessons from designing AI-powered healthcare tools that:
- Support clinical reasoning rather than replace it
- Improve workflow efficiency without adding cognitive burden
- Balance innovation with responsibility in regulated, high-risk environments
- Bring design, data, and engineering together through close collaboration
Attendees will gain insight into how thoughtful UX and human-centered design principles play a critical role in making AI usable, trustworthy, and effective in healthcare settings.
Who Should Attend
This session is ideal for:
- Healthcare technologists and AI practitioners
- UX designers and product managers in health tech
- Engineers and data scientists building AI-driven systems
- Clinicians, researchers, and digital health professionals
- Anyone interested in responsible, human-centered AI in healthcare
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📍 WHERE & WHEN:
Date: WEDNESDAY, Feb 25th at 5:30 PM EST
Venue: To be announced
📢 If you're attending in person, please get a complimentary ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-healthcare-cloud-ai-community-meetup-tickets-1335233522409
As always, our BOSHUG meetups are community-driven and welcoming. Whether you’re building, designing, deploying, or evaluating healthcare AI systems, you belong here.
We look forward to seeing you in February for another engaging conversation at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and human-centered design.18 attendees
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