Healthcare and Achieving Hyper-Efficiency With Edge Computing

Downtime is simply not an option in the Healthcare industry. With aging populations and nation-wide shortages in the workforce, equitable access to medical services has the potential to be threatened by any significant kind of local and/or global event. In order to prevent this looming reality, facilities must start leveraging technology systems that proactively combat, recover from, and adapt to potential threats. 

Continue reading below to learn how edge computing can help hospitals and medical facilities stay hyper-efficient.

The Modern Challenges of Healthcare

• Resiliency: Explosive growth in data demands connectivity near source to improve uptime and provide steady access to patient care.

• Hyper-efficiency: Hospitals need maximum efficiency to help reduce costs while delivering a better patient experience.

• Security & Safety: Digitization generates cyber and physical security concerns. IoT-enabled architecture can help alleviate them. 

The transition away from traditional towards digital solutions has completely transformed operations, highlighting the importance of both power resilience and network stability and speed. Most Healthcare technologies are interconnected, and therefore depend on networks for communication and data exchange.

Facilities with stable, secure, and fast network infrastructure can prevent delays, connectivity loss, and other service interruptions that may have serious implications for emergency patient outcomes.

The Benefits of Edge Computing in Healthcare

• Resiliency: By decentralizing data processing, facilities can reduce the risk of system-wide failures.

• Hyper-efficiency: By allowing real-time data analysis crucial in life-or-death medical scenarios, facilities can improve workflow efficiencies. 

• Security & Safety: By enabling quicker response times and more robust data protection measures.

Among the driving forces of digital evolution in Healthcare are technology systems called edge computing, which are designed to bring data-powered applications closer to users and their devices. While cloud computing drove the creation of mega data centers, edge computing relies on distributed IT, spread across a number of micro data centers.

Edge computing is pivotal in guiding hospitals towards hyper-efficiency by achieving higher bandwidth, lower latency, regulatory compliance around location, and data privacy.

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