Revolutionizing Healthcare with AMD EPYC™ Processors

Solving the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow

Healthcare institutions are under pressure. Pressure to perform. Pressure to maintain services. Pressure to exceed expectations. Healthcare goes beyond medical treatment for patients; hospital systems that schedule appointments and house patient data, insurance companies managing claims, image processing, and virtualization; the requirement for high-performance computing (HPC) in healthcare is only growing larger. 

Each element of the healthcare system has different needs when it comes to technology and infrastructure, from administrative tasks such as patient check-ins and the proper maintenance of data and patient records, to HPC across genomics, drug discovery, medical image processing, and more.

With so many challenges to solve, the healthcare industry needs technology it can rely on, whatever the ask. AMD EPYC™ processors are the answer, solving problems healthcare companies are facing today—but also preparing to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

AMD EPYC™ Processors: Supporting Digital Healthcare 

AMD EPYC processors offer astounding performance, efficiency, and security, enabling customers across multiple sectors to succeed. 

Offering up to 128 cores, 128 PCIe® Gen 5 lanes, and L3 caches of 384MB, performance isn’t a question—it’s why AMD 4th Gen EPYC processors power the highest performing x86 servers in integer performance, ideal for uses across multiple industries.¹ And they’re also powering the most efficient servers, delivering up to ~2.7x the performance-per-system-watt, driving lower server energy costs and a low TCO.^2,3

Compounding performance and efficiency comes the level of security enterprises rely on to keep sensitive data safe. AMD Infinity Guard™ provides a comprehensive suite of security features that can keep data safe and give customers peace of mind.⁴ 

When it comes to healthcare, each of these elements that make AMD EPYC processors such an appealing option become vital; exceptional performance to drive greater results for the company and the patient, high efficiency that can lower overall energy consumption costs, and security features that help guard patient records and other sensitive data.

Solving Real Global Healthcare Challenges

UZ Brussel, a Flemish-speaking hospital connected to the Free University of Brussels, supplies a patient record system to multiple hospitals across Belgium. As running a hospital continues to take an increasing amount of power, UZ Brussel opted for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers equipped with AMD EPYC processors that they felt delivered the level of performance and security features they required.

The results were clear:

They’re not the only company making use of cutting-edge AMD server processor technologies; Ample Organics is a world leader in medical cannabis technology and requires digital systems at every step of their production process to track growth, sales, reporting, and record-keeping for clients to maintain compliance with Health Canada’s regulatory requirements.

With over 600 Amazon EC2 cloud instances of varying sizes, the opportunity for Ample Organics to optimize and make savings was significant, even if the improvements were small. Transferring their infrastructure to Amazon EC2 T3a servers powered by AMD EPYC processors, the improvements were anything but small.

The benefits didn’t stop there, however, as Ample Organics went on to save on their overall OpEx spend, as well as increasing their security.

As healthcare continues to grow increasingly digital, following acts in the last decade such as the EMR mandate to move to electronic record keeping, more and more companies will require computing performance that helps them not only provide their services, but do so in a way that is efficient and secure.

With new technologies on the horizon and already in use, such as AI and machine learning, new demands will only add to customer needs. With servers powered by AMD EPYC processors, customers can be ready for the needs of today and demands of tomorrow.

If you or your customers are searching for computing solutions in the medical sector, speak to your AMD representative today or find more information here.