{"id":4357,"date":"2012-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/oct\/26\/cloud-computing-to-assist-the-medical-sector\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:00:00","slug":"how-can-cloud-computing-assist-the-medical-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-can-cloud-computing-assist-the-medical-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"How can cloud computing assist the medical sector?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing has proven to have its many advantages and now it would seem that it is also helping medical science reduce its costs.<\/p>\n<p>If we take the incredible amounts of data that need to be crunched through for advanced treatment purposes, traditionally it would require a set of interlinked computers, in their thousands, to configure the human genome.<\/p>\n<p>This alone would require thousands and thousands of pieces of equipment to conduct such an experiment whilst it would also take years to formulate the small gains made in mapping a strand of DNA whilst costs would continue to escalate.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud hosting can however reverse this.<\/p>\n<p>The multitude of computers can be in a remote location as well as all the resources, including networked data from other research centres.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing would enable the whole process to be a lot cheaper since the medics would only pay for the space and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing has proven to have its many advantages and now it would seem that it is also helping medical science reduce its costs.<br \/>\nIf we take the incredible amounts of data that need to be crunched through for advanced treatment purposes, tradition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}