SC Conference - Activity Details

Jonathan Silverstein  (University of Chicago)

HPC in Modern Medicine

Wednesday,  01:30PM - 02:15PM

Room PB253-254

Healthcare in the United States is a complex adaptive system. Individual rewards and aspirations drive behavior as each stakeholder interacts, self‐organizes, learns, reacts, and adapts to one another. Having such a system for health is not inherently bad if incentives are appropriately aligned. However, clinical care, public health, education and research practices have evolved into such a state that we are failing to systematically deliver measurable quality at acceptable cost. From a systems level perspective, integration, interoperability, and secured access to biomedical data on a national scale and its creative re-use to drive better understanding and decision-making are promising paths to transformation of healthcare from a broken system into a high performing one. This session will survey HealthGrid issues and projects across clinical care, public health, education and research with particular focus on transformative efforts enabled by high performance computing.