Healthcare industry Healthcare is one of the largest industries that is changing at a dramatic rate. There are multiple future processes going on within the health sector like technical innovations, smart data management and patient centered healthcare.
Importance of Data in healthcare In healthcare, there is an ongoing systematic process of gathering, analyzing and interpreting both quantitative and qualitative data from various sources.
Importance of Data in healthcare For improved treatment methods and improved communication between different parties analyzing and interpreting data is crucial. It is also useful to gain insights about patients and provide customized treatment channels for each patient
Data Size Enormity But the size of data collected from various sources become enormous with time. For example, average size for digital records per patient lifetime in normal incidences is nearly 500MB. With imagery and radiological data, the size increases further up to gigabytes.
Existing systems are not enough for d ata capture, storage, analysis & information extraction applications of these massive amounts of data
Distributed Storage and Processing is required for handling compute intensive and storage intensive tasks
High Performance Computing We can apply high performance computing for executing compute-intensive models and analyzing huge datasets. It can help to advance medical research by the ability to digest staggering workloads and provide lucid results.
H igh performance computing can make wait time minimal in an execution and run different components in a pipeline simultaneously. I t is capable of a quintillion calculations per second and much larger data sets can be analyzed in less time. High Performance Computing
Applications
University of Texas researchers are developing full dynamic simulations of muscle interactions and multi joint coordination of the human skeleton with the help of high performance computing. Kinesiology
Tissue of Origin Test by Pathwork Diagnostics uses cloud based HPC to identify the unknown tumors by genomically comparing them to the DNA profiles of known tumors with microarray technologies. The Pathwork® Tissue of Origin Test
Salt lake institute are using high performance computing to study the ciliary ganglion of chicken to understand how the synapses of the brain work. By this research, they can gain new insights to the neural communication pathways in brain, to find treatments to disorders like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia Salt lake institute research
Drugs used to treat certain ailments are not not effective a percentage of patients. GNS healthcare is using high performance computing to accelerate the process of discovering drugs and treatment processes with artificial intelligence. Effective drug discovery