Analytics Infrastructure

Solid-State Array Supports Future Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Solid-state array (SSA) storage is growing in healthcare as organizations seek scalable and flexible storage options for increasingly digitized health IT infrastructure. Gartner predicted in its 2017...

IBM Bare Metal Servers Support Healthcare Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced the availability of its bare metal servers on the IBM cloud, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors to support healthcare analytics. Healthcare organizations are currently demanding...

Noninvasive Healthcare Tools Support Value-Based Care

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

HeartFlow and GE Healthcare announced their collaboration in increasing the availability of HeartFlow FFRct to assist clinicians in diagnosing patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), using...

How All-Flash Arrays Can Benefit Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare organizations continue to prepare for health IT infrastructure digitization, all-flash arrays (AFAs) are becoming more relevant as a primary storage platform because they can host a...

Pure Storage Upgrades Flash Array for Healthcare Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Pure Storage announced upgrades to its FlashBlade product line, including the release of its all-flash S3 object store upgrade, which is aimed at big data and advanced healthcare analytics. The...

Network Connectivity, Storage Challenge Healthcare IoT Push

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The growth in value of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) analytics pressures organizations to examine their IT infrastructures and assess how they can support the influx of healthcare IoT data and...

H2O.ai Partners with IBM on Artificial Intelligence Platform

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

H2O.ai partnered with IBM to offer the H20.ai artificial intelligence (AI) platform, graphics processing unit (GPU)-powered machine learning, and deep learning on IBM’s Power Systems...

Data Science Orgs Form GPU Initiative for Data Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies announced the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to establish common data frameworks to support data analytics. The...

GPU-Based Collaboration Provides Advanced Database Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Fuzzy Logix and Kinetica announced a partnership to release a joint solution allowing customers to leverage high performing advanced database analytics. The new option will target the most time...

Vendor Development Aids Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare artificial intelligence is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 60 percent through 2022, according to a recent report by Research and Markets. The report stated that growing investments...

Key Health IT Infrastructure Requirements for IBM Watson

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are faced with repositories of unstructured data, waiting to be used for valuable clinical insights. However, many organizations lack the health IT infrastructure tools needed...

Healthcare Cloud Computing Seeing Constant Overall Growth

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare cloud computing is growing consistently, with IT infrastructure products for public and private cloud deployments growing by 9 percent, according to a recent report by IDC. Cloud is proving...

Edge Computing Uses IoT Devices for Fast Health IT Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting analytics solutions as part of their HIT infrastructures to offer better patient care. As the number of analytics solutions and internet of things (IoT)...

New HIT Open Source AI Platform Available on Azure HDInsight

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

H2O.ai announced the availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Microsoft Azure HDInsight, making it more widely available for health IT infrastructure deployment. H2O.ai’s...

Cisco, SAS Leverage Edge Computing for Clinical IoT Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Cisco and SAS announced their release of the Cisco SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform to help manage health IT analytics by organizing clinical data collected by Internet of Things (IoT)...

Analytics Used to Examine Cutting HIT Infrastructure Costs

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

In recent years, the healthcare industry has seen a series of incentive programs to assist organizations in cutting back on costs while improving patient care. Many organizations are using analytics to...

BI Artificial Intelligence Supports Health IT Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The business intelligence (BI) and analytics market is expected to change rapidly over the next several years due to vendors building more intelligent IT infrastructure solutions. According to...

Philips Innovates HIT Infrastructure with Phoenix Children’s

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Philips and Phoenix Children’s Hospital announced a 15-year agreement to co-create advanced imaging, patient monitoring, and clinical informatics in pediatric care. The long-term strategic...

How IBM Universal Quantum Computing Impacts HIT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced its initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems for business and science. The proposed system, IBM Q, will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform and...

Value-Based Performance, Resource Management Vital for HIT

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Value-based performance management solutions are becoming increasingly more important to HIT infrastructure as value-based incentives come into play. Healthcare organizations are using advanced...