Wow, sometimes it feels like time speeds up! This was certainly the case for me and the month of March, having spent more than half the month traveling, meeting with customers and learning!
First stop was Orlando for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference. For those of you who have never attended, the conference is HUGE, something over 40,000 health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world in attendance, all focused on Health IT and finding new ways to produce better outcomes for patients.
The Dell EMC Booth was in full swing with exhibits on Clinical Genomics, Predictive Health Analytics and Healthcare IoT amongst others. On the Clinical Genomic front, I got a chance to meet with customers and educate them on our partnership with Edico Genome and their Dragen FPGA technology. The Dell EMC / Edico bundled solution enables analysis of a whole human 30x genome in as little as 22 minutes, which can typically take over a day using standard software. More info on this exciting technology can be found here: http://www.edicogenome.com/dragen_bioit_platform/bundled-compute-storage/
From the Predictive Health Analytics side, we were happy to showcase the work we have been doing with Partners Healthcare and the Analytics Insight Module (AIM). Advanced analytics allows Partners to create customized treatments of disease rather than the one size fits all approach. They are able to take imaging data, genomics, lab tests, pathology samples and patient survey data and condense/process it into something actionable. More info on AIM can be found here: https://www.emc.com/en-us/solutions/big-data/analytic-insights.htm
Lastly, one of the coolest exhibits was from Dell EMC OEM Partner, Totem Spark. The folks at Totem Spark use a Dell IOT Gateway and Apache Spark to give real time biometric data. You could actually take and swallow a pill in the booth that reports on heart rate, respiration, core body temperature and can do real world Machine Learning. What this means is you can quickly develop insights and report back in a visual model on which data really matters. For example, what is your respiration like while sleeping, walking, exercising strenuously, or in a car? This data can then be shared with your health care provider. Also, just in case you are wondering, the pill leaves your body “naturally” in about 12-16 hours 😉
After HIMSS, I got the honor of attending this year’s Global Architect Summit. The Global Architect Team are basically the “Super SEs” who cover Dell EMC’s Global Accounts, so much talent in one room! Learning was the main focus of the week. We are now embarking as the only full service company who can help customers with their Digital, IT, Workforce and Security transformation all under one roof! We have a lot of exciting announcements coming for Dell EMC World in May, along with some new CloudFlex financing options which I’m sure our customers will love.
We also had a little friendly competition on the racetrack. Yours truly came in the middle of the pack, gotta practice harder for next year!
Last but not least, I got the opportunity to visit the Dell EMC Briefing Center in Austin with one of our most influential customers in the Genomic research space. We has some great discussions around cloud, precision medicine, research collaboration and of course HPC! The Dell EMC Austin Innovation lab has some talented resources (read: PhDs) that can help with bioinformatics and genomic pipeline workflows. We also have a great collaboration with Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) who has some brilliant life science minds as well. Looking forward to the new Dell EMC powered Stampede2 system, going live this summer!
That’s all for now, and if you remember nothing else from this post.
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