Healthcare’s Need for High Performance Computing

Most health care sites are using healthcare systems that are several years old. In a recent Healthcare IT Today interview with Dell Technologies and AMD, Harini Malik, Global Strategic Biz Dev Head for Healthcare at AMD, points out that this legacy equipment is insufficient for the new demands of high-performance computing.

First, of course, old equipment provides poorer performance than today’s systems. Because the older systems are less energy efficient, they raise power & cooling costs. Newer systems offer more memory and faster I/O, better performance, more power efficiency and better TCO. Datacenter consolidation is key and the upgrade pays for itself in a few months. It also frees up space to bring in new technologies in to your datacenter

Aaron Dinwiddie, Global Account Executive for Epic at Dell Technologies, explains that sites can’t always expand their data center to increase their processing power, so they need to bring in more powerful systems.

Malik says that HPC “is becoming indispensable” for genomics, drug discovery, faster disease diagnosis, and cancer prevention. With the increased data available today, the use of AI on EHR data can drive clinical decision support, improve RPM, and enabled targeted interventions for personalized medicine.

Dinwiddie talks about “accelerating patient care,” which not only can produce good outcomes faster, but can help physicians save time and avoid burnout.

One innovation offered by AMD is a security processor that assures protection at several levels. It authenticates firmware at boot time, encrypts selected portions of memory, and encrypts data traveling between a virtual machine and the hypervisor (hosting software for virtualization).

Dinwiddie mentions an AI ops platform, which takes some of the burden of supporting security off of IT staff who are busy with their applications. The platform searches routinely for vulnerabilities in the system and firmware.

Malik says, “Understanding workflows and use cases is key” to making HPC pay off. Dinwiddie advises bringing together all parts of the organization to plan.

Watch the video interview for more details about the AMD/Dell partnership and the potential offered by high-performance computing.

Learn more about AMD: https://www.amd.com/en/solutions/healthcare.html

Learn more about Dell Technologies: https://dell.com/Healthcare

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