Cloud Gaming Can Bring Artificial Intelligence To The Doctor ’ s Office

Recently, I attended a virtual oncology congress as a speaker where one of the attending professors asked me about the IT infrastructure in medical practices. Knowing the medical reality, he inquired whether those existing computers and accompanying systems would allow the use of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (A.I.). Practically, he wanted to know how I think those hardware should be upgraded to make it ready for A.I. To answer him, I made a seemingly unrelated analogy coming from the video game industry: cloud gaming. This approach, where the cloud handles all the processing power, has gained traction lately; bypassing the need for powerful PCs and consoles altogether. What if the same fate awaits medical professionals and hospitals with limited IT infrastructure that still want to benefit from power-hungry technologies like A.I.? Indeed, rather than upgrading physical hardware, the same cloud computing technology can upgrade healthcare institutions; provide access to advanced technologies; while circumventing the need for physical health IT upgrades. Such an approach has not been explored at large; but it holds promise for the future of healthcare as we shall see in this article. From the moons of Mars to the cloud For the majority of its existence, the video game industry relied on consumer hardware. The bigger the storage, the better the graphics cards and the faster the processors that gamers’ PCs and consoles could pack, the superio...
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