Workload Optimization for Healthcare Systems

 
 
By eweek  |  Posted 2012-02-28 Email
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Healthcare is ideal for workload-optimized systems, because they can help provide faster access to personalized medicine-resulting in improved patient care. In 2012, vendors will continue to develop cloud databases and supercomputers-such as IBM Watson-to store and process large volumes of "big data" collected via EHR and genomic data stores. Healthcare providers must also grapple with storing vast amounts of images and data for years, and workload optimization paradigms can help deliver solutions to meet these challenges.


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0 Comments for "Workload Optimization for Healthcare Systems"

  • Bryan Siegfried January 29, 2013 6:55 pm

    This article seems to confuse biology research with data involved in medical care. The data required for medical care falls under enormous regulation for access and privacy and the amount of security and persistence required up to 21 years pales in comparison to typical research data. Another relevant question will be how 20 year data will be accessed when the vendor who wrote the software is out of business and no longer to verify new software installs/licenses/etc....

  • Steffen July 19, 2012 6:05 pm

    Adobe no longer supports Flash Player on Linux. This won't play for me anymore under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . Please move on to an 'open' video format! This proprietary format lock-in stuff is so 1990's. ...

  • Michael Sparti April 28, 2012 1:16 pm

    Hey Health care Providers I've been Doing it for42 Yrs this seems required Absent 'BIG BROTHER WORRIES!' Dr. M. Sparti...

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