Dr. Amir Bahmani, Director of Science & Technology at our lab, discussed the future of cloud computing and its impact on healthcare applications with Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google, and Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure.
We put together these key takeaways for you:
- “The data that is not in the cloud is not as secure as data that is in the cloud.” Eric Schmidt emphasized. Schmidt believes each person should advocate to their healthcare providers to put their personal health information in the cloud.
- Mark Russinovich dived into data storage advancement at Microsoft, such as:
- Project Silica: store data in a piece of glass, including the 1977 Superman movie.
- Project HSD: explore holographic storage technology.
- A collaboration with the University of Washington that encodes data in synthetic DNA, then successfully stores and retrieves it.
- There are abundant opportunities in cloud computing, quantum computing, AI, and edge computing in the next 10 years:
- There will still be a growing number of investments happening in healthcare with these emerging technologies, regardless of the government policy.
- It is essential to make healthcare efficient because it is the largest industry that takes up18% of U.S. GDP.
- The government should double the funding to these emerging technologies in order to stay ahead, but the challenge to build healthcare applications using these technologies is to make the policymakers understand the impact it could make.
