# AWS Healthcare Industry Lens Custom Lens

In this Lens we focus on how to design, deploy, and manage your healthcare workloads in the AWS Cloud. This Lens augments the Well-Architected Framework and highlights additional key principles that should be considered for healthcare workloads. This custom lens is available for use within the [AWS Well-Architected Tool](https://aws.amazon.com/well-architected-tool/) within the AWS Management Console.  See [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/lenses-custom.html) for instructions on how to create a custom lens using the JSON file provided.

Please visit [Healthcare Industry Lens](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/healthcare-industry-lens/healthcare-industry-lens.html) to view the full Healthcare Industry Lens whitepaper.  The whitepaper includes a [Learning path for healthcare](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/healthcare-industry-lens/learning-path-for-healthcare.html), a series of foundational resources that can prepare you to use this document. We recommend that you read the preliminary resources listed in the learning path, like the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper, before reading this Lens. Consider all the principles and questions in the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper and this Lens when designing your architecture. 

## Intended Audience

This lens is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), chief information security officers (CISOs), architects, developers, compliance officers, and operations team members.

## Contributing Authors

See [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/healthcare-industry-lens/contributors.html) for a list of contributors to the Healthcare Industry Lens.

## Security

See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md#security-issue-notifications) for more information.

## License

This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.