Collaborative Edge Computing Supports Health IT Advancement

Healthcare organizations have a greater opportunity to digitally share collected data with other organizations for analytics and population health purposes. Using collaborative edge computing to share data can help organizations efficiently and securely share data with other providers. Edge computing is a decentralized, cloud-based extension of an organization’s network. Instead of collecting data and transmitting it back to the datacenter to be processed, edge computing creates a small datacenter that connects cloud and end-user with data processing capability. A clinician’s mobile device is the edge between the patient who is the data source and the cloud. A clinician treating a patient with a tablet will be able to enter patient data into the analytics platform at the edge where it is processed and displayed in near real-time.