January 20, 2023 – The first onsite quantum computer in U.S. healthcare is set to be located on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus by early 2023. It is a key part of a 10-year partnership between Cleveland Clinic and IBM aimed at fundamentally advancing the pace of biomedical research through high-performance computing.
The Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator is a joint center that leverages Cleveland Clinic’s medical expertise with IBM’s technology expertise. The IBM-managed quantum computer will advance high-performance computing in healthcare through:
- A Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery and other generative modeling capabilities leveraging AI to infer knowledge gaps and generate hypotheses, and ultimately aim to speed up the research process in therapeutics and biomarkers discovery.
- RXN, a cloud-based platform that combines AI models and the ability to directly control robotic labs to enable end-to-end design and synthesis of new chemical compounds.
- Deep Search, a next-generation AI tool for generating insight from large amounts of structured and unstructured technical literature.
- High-performance hybrid cloud computing technologies that enable researchers to “burst” their workloads into the cloud and access the resources they need at scale.
“Cleveland Clinic is always innovating,” Steve Downey, chief supply chain and patient support services officer for Cleveland Clinic, told an audience at IDN Insights East in Philadelphia, hosted by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, this fall. “We’re encouraged to, and IBM’s quantum computing is the latest example of that.”
Read more in the latest issue of Journal of Healthcare Contracting.