Medical Researchers Tap Cloud Computing for Analyzing Information
October 5, 2012
Grazed from iHealthBeat. Author: Editorial Staff.
Researchers are beginning to leverage cloud computing to advance health care research, NPR’s "All Tech Considered" reports. Through cloud computing, analyzing data that used to take years and tens of millions of dollars now can be done much faster and for less money. Organizations can rent massive computer resources on an hourly basis at a relatively low cost.
Using the Cloud for Patient Data Analysis
Michael Cunningham — medical director of Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Craniofacial Center — treats young patients whose skulls have fused prematurely. He said that researchers have been able to identify such patients whose cells looked similar by using cloud computing to analyze vast amounts of data…
He said, "It’s the first thing that’s ever been found that really gives us a clue as to where to look in terms of underlying cause." Cunningham added that analyzing and sequencing the data would have been far too expensive and taken too long without cloud computing.
Using the Cloud for Pharmaceutical Analysis
Matt Wood — head of scientific and technical computing at Amazon Web Services — said that pharmaceutical firms are reducing their costs by renting only the computing power that they need for certain tests…
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