NUHS to build supercomputing infrastructure for hospital AI
Healthcare IT News December 6, 2021
It is also deploying 5G indoor network with edge compute capabilities.
The National University Health System, one of the three national health clusters in Singapore, has entered into a collaborative agreement with the government-backed National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to build a supercomputing infrastructure to support artificial intelligence programmes in public healthcare institutions by mid-2022.
Meanwhile, it has also partnered with telecommunications giant Singtel to deploy a 5G indoor network with multi-access edge compute capabilities in the operating theatres and wards of the National University Hospital.
WHY IT MATTERS
Hospitals produce large volumes of data each year and modern technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and automation, help medical researchers make sense of these huge amounts of data to improve patient...