DENVER, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- When caring for
patients, every second counts. Immediate access to crucial data can
mean more accurate and potentially lifesaving healthcare diagnoses
or procedures. Reducing latency, which can improve speed of access
to information and enable better application performance, has
emerged as a key driver for hospitals and healthcare systems to
implement Edge Computing strategies according to survey data from
IDC Research and sponsored by Lumen Technologies (NYSE:
LUMN).
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In fact, 46% of healthcare IT leaders who responded stated that
latency - or the delay between an action and an application's
response - needed to be an ultra-low 5 milliseconds for their
organization's Edge Computing initiatives. When seconds can be the
difference between life and death, downtime between systems or slow
application performance is not an option.
"Healthcare workloads involve large sets of structured and
unstructured data that need to be accessed as close to real time as
possible, often times because critical clinical decision making
can't take place without it," said Lynne A.
Dunbrack, Group Vice President, IDC Health Insights, IDC
Government Insights. "Edge Computing provides the speed of data
delivery and speed of insight for decision making that healthcare
providers ultimately want and need. Nearly half of healthcare
organizations are planning their next investment in Edge Computing
within the next year."
The importance of this investment, and the change it can make in
patients' lives, becomes clear when considering some of the
potentially lifesaving benefits for emergency medical services that
rely on immediate access to critical data that can be enabled by
Edge Computing:
- Emergency Department teams can receive instruction about
patients on route to the hospital including vital signs,
diagnostics, echocardiograms, patient history, or video. With
critical diagnostic time saved, the Emergency Department team can
better prepare for the patient's arrival and immediate
treatment.
- Emergency vehicles can be optimally routed to avoid traffic
delays, reducing response times.
- During a mass casualty incident, victims can be triaged to the
appropriate care setting across multiple hospitals to avoid
overwhelming a local healthcare system.
Learn how healthcare organizations can improve the patient
experience by processing data at the edge:
https://discover.lumen.com/l/edge-for-healthcare
Telemedicine and virtual visits, clinical and business
collaboration, remote health monitoring, and smart medical campuses
can also be enhanced with Edge Computing. Edge Computing can allow
hospitals and health systems to create and provide innovative
solutions by enabling large amounts of locally created data to be
processed closer to where it is being captured. Reducing the
distance information must travel to be analyzed and acted upon can
significantly reduce latency. As mission-critical entities,
hospitals and healthcare organizations need secure, immediate, 24 x
7 access to health information to enable effective clinical
decision-making.
Additional Resources:
- Read the IDC InfoBrief Edge Computing: Transforming
Healthcare by Increasing Resilience, April 2021 | IDC Doc. #US47492421 here:
https://discover.lumen.com/l/edge-for-healthcare
- For more information on how Lumen is supporting edge computing,
visit: https://lumen.com/edge
About Lumen Technologies:
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technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately
450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60
countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for
applications and data to help businesses, government and
communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen
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