Red Hat Collaborates with the Massachusetts Open Cloud and Leading Children’s Hospital to Help Shape the Future of Medical Image Processing
The ChRIS Research Integration Service will reduce the time it takes
to analyze medical images and increase cross-hospital collaboration for
swifter crucial decisions
SAN FRANCISCO– RED HAT SUMMIT 2018--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a collaboration with Boston Children’s
Hospital to deploy the ChRIS Research Integration Service, a web-based
medical image platform developed using Red Hat technologies, on the
Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC). The platform provides a distributed user
interface that is designed to enable real-time collaboration between
clinicians and radiologists around the world.
In medically-critical scenarios, every minute counts and the cost of
waiting hours for medical images to be scanned, shared, and analyzed can
mean the difference between a patient’s life or death. Faster image
processing and the ability to share critical data through real-time
collaboration can lead to quicker and more accurate diagnoses, helping
to improve patient outcomes.
With the goal of providing a central collaboration platform that is open
to the global medical imaging community, Boston Children’s Hospital
built ChRIS using a variety of Red Hat’s open source technologies that
allow for a flexible, open hybrid
cloud architecture that is designed for agility and scale. These
include:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform, provides a scalable, more secure, and supported Linux
distribution, and is being used to accelerate the Graphics Processing
Units (GPU) running on MOC.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat’s Kubernetes
container application platform, is being used as part of the solution
for application lifecycle management, making it easy to build, deploy
and scale applications for imaging, analytics and diagnosis using
Linux containers and Kubernetes at the core of ChRIS. Running on Red
Hat OpenStack Platform, OpenShift also allows for the flexibility to
use cloud-native
application frameworks and runtimes across the MOC.
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat’s agile cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), is the foundation for MOC’s
scalable compute nodes. The platform also helps provide GPU
acceleration while adhering to OpenStack’s built-in security standards.
- Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Ansible Automation fuel a
combined cloud management and automation approach. CloudForms provides
a hybrid
cloud management platform while Ansible offers a broad, agentless IT
automation engine - together, the technologies help Boston
Children’s Hospital better manage the ChRIS solution, simplifying
service and policy management and adding automation to keep routine
tasks moving smoothly.
- Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat’s open, scalable storage solution
for modern workloads, helps MOC provide fast, redundant cloud
storage at scale.
ChRIS provides a standardized way of deploying imaging applications,
which reduces the barrier that currently exists between developers of
those apps and users who need quick access to them. Because ChRIS runs
on Red Hat OpenShift deployed on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, app
containers built for ChRIS come prepackaged with all of the required
libraries, enabling the user to quickly install an app and then use it
in an orchestrated way within the platform.
Red Hat is also providing coding help and guidance for the development
of the ChRIS platform.
The MOC project brings together talent and technologies from various
academic, government, non-profit, and industry organizations to
collaboratively create an open, production-grade public cloud suitable
for cutting-edge research and development. Through its ongoing
work with the group, Red Hat is able to support the growth of the
ChRIS platform as it scales to the cloud and evolves into a robust,
multidisciplinary scientific research platform that the MOC and Boston
Children’s Hospital plan to make available to other hospitals in Boston
and beyond.
Red Hat shares MOC and Boston Children’s Hospital’s mission of finding
and creating the best solutions to real problems and sharing them with
the broader community for all to use. Red Hat’s culture and technology
have proven to be a natural fit for the project, and Red Hat is
committed to helping ChRIS expand while also helping MOC cement its
status as one of the leading cloud computing choices for research in the
Northeastern U.S. With a foundation built on open technology, the Boston
Children’s Hospital and MOC teams are committed to keeping the open data
sets created by ChRIS open to all to further broaden innovation in
children’s healthcare.
Supporting Quotes
P. Ellen Grant, M.D., Director of the
Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Director
of Fetal and Neonatal Neuroimaging Research, Professor of Pediatrics and
Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital Endowed Chair in Neonatology,
Boston Children’s Hospital
“The collaboration with Red Hat came
very naturally. We are both seen as leaders in our respective sectors
and have a shared goal of creating open technology solutions to aid
doctors in making potentially life-saving decisions. With Red Hat’s
technology, we are able to create an open, scalable and shareable
platform capable of reducing the time it takes to analyze key images
from hours to minutes.”
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technology officer, Red Hat
“When
it comes to breakthroughs in healthcare technology, it is not enough to
have an open platform, but also one that is capable of hosting and
managing huge data sets while enabling researchers to run
compute-intensive workloads. Collaborating with Boston University and
the Massachusetts Open Cloud on ChRIS was an excellent match for Red
Hat, as this model shows how collaboration in cloud computing can fuel
innovation beyond just traditional enterprise IT. Open innovation can
quickly change the face of modern medicine, and Red Hat is proud to be a
part of this effort.”
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