“Moving data into the cloud has been a key component to building more secure and interoperable healthcare data and systems, and panelists showcased how that move has both empowered patients and driven precision medicine research forward at today’s CXO Health IT Modernization Tech Forum.”
“Dr. David Patton, associate director of clinical research program at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, said that NCI has begun to move all of its computing and storage onto the Amazon Web Services cloud. The move to the cloud, which also uses DevOps capabilities, has enabled NCI to accelerate its cancer research, particularly in genomics.”
“Johns Hopkins Chief Technology Officer Dwight Raum also said that emerging technology, greater accessibility to healthcare data, and cloud services have enabled researchers to sift through terabytes and petabytes of data, driving medical discoveries forward faster than before.” Read the full story here.
Source: Cloud Accelerates Precision Medicine Research, Helps Empower Patients – April 4, 2019. MeriTalk.
