Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably familiar with the technological revolution surrounding artificial intelligence and how it can be implemented in healthcare, industry, and other business sectors. However, you may not be familiar with whose technology has been driving much of this innovation.
The computer components manufacturer NVIDIA has evolved from making graphics cards for gaming PCs to being one of the leading developers of AI hardware and software. Today, most AI-powered healthcare devices engage with NVIDIA’s products or services, such as medical AI box PCs using NVIDIA GPUs. Given the sheer importance of NVIDIA in healthcare today, it’s critical for healthcare providers to understand the company’s history and its current impact on the industry.
A Brief History of NVIDIA
NVIDIA was originally founded in 1933 in San Jose, California, as a developer and manufacturer of computer graphics cards. The rising popularity of personal computers meant that there was a growing market for advanced graphics, both for business and entertainment. For much of the company’s history, people have primarily known NVIDIA as the company that made the graphics cards for their gaming PCs.
This start in graphics rendering is what gave NVIDIA its expertise in parallel processing, which would go on to form the basis for its later innovations in artificial intelligence. CPUs are extremely powerful and capable of handling many tasks, but the sheer amount of calculations and processes that are required to render complex 3D graphics require more specialized hardware.
In the 2010s, NVIDIA began to innovate and develop in the field of AI and deep learning neural networks. This meant that as other tech companies began to invest in machine learning, Nvidia’s AI-focused products served as the hardware they used. The greatest breakthrough came in 2022, when the Ada Lovelace architecture brought massive improvements to computational efficiency and AI-driven rendering, making it faster and easier than ever to implement AI in new applications.
NVIDIA and the Healthcare Industry
NVIDIA’s popularity is due to providing the basis for AI implementation. This takes a massive load off of healthcare device manufacturers: rather than develop the computer hardware and software capable of using AI programs in-house, they can simply use NVIDIA’s offerings. NVIDIA also eagerly partners with device makers, such as launching over two dozen new microservices specifically for the healthcare sector.
Areas where NVIDIA's technology is making a difference include:
Healthcare Provider Assistance
AI is being implemented in two primary ways: to aid healthcare providers in their decision-making and to reduce their workload. An example of the former is emergency services, where split-second choices can be the difference between life and death. Corti, a Danish startup, has developed a speech recognition software program based on NVIDIA’s Jetson architecture that can detect if a caller is experiencing cardiac arrest. For the latter, AI’s capacity for speech recognition makes it a popular choice for recording provider-patient conversations to automatically fill out electronic health records.
Imaging
One area that is already seeing AI’s impact is the field of imaging and diagnosis. By training AI on thousands of images of a visual symptom, such as colorectal lesions that healthcare providers have already verified, the AI can be used to detect said symptoms that might go unnoticed. This technology has applications for everything ranging from early cancer diagnosis to analyzing a patient’s blood vessels for early warnings of health complications.
Accessibility
AI-powered technology is being implemented to help people with disabilities enjoy greater independence. The company Aira, a member of NVIDIA’s Inception program, uses AI-powered smart glasses to read labels for those with impaired vision. GPUs and deep learning can also be used to create hearing aids that automatically filter out background noise, making it easier to listen to what actually matters.
Embrace NVIDIA Technology With Cybernet Computers
NVIDIA's expertise in deep learning and AI programs has placed it in the perfect spot to take advantage of the current technological revolution. Devices that implement NVIDIA’s AI hardware and tools will be that much more effective.
If you’re looking for medical computers that are AI-capable, contact the team at Cybernet Manufacturing. Our new medical AI box PCs use the latest in NVIDIA’s AI architecture, opening up new possibilities when treating patients.
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