Federal News Network September 17, 2021
Cloud computing is rapidly advancing health care on three important fronts.
First, according to Mathew Soltis, vice president of Cloud Solutions at GDIT, is how it’s improving health care research. The cloud enables aggregation and sharing of data in a given research domain, speeding visualization and data analysis, and therefore the development of remedies.
“NIH is a good example of some data sharing here around COVID. They have a commons platform, where researchers can get together and share data in a common standard, a common infrastructure,” Soltis said at the Federal News Network Cloud Exchange. Earlier, the exchange of hard drives or snail-like downloads simply held things up, he said. Now cloud deployments are “accelerating research outcomes.”
The second...