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In an increasingly computerized world, understanding why and how
computers do what they do can have a direct bearing on how you evaluate
the effects on care that are the result of having the computer in the
loop. Also, in the future, today's medical students are going to be
making decisions about computerization and other technology. What will
form the basis for their decisions — their "knowledge" of Facebook or
how to text with two fingers? This raises the question: How
knowledgeable, not "computer-literate," but knowledgeable are you?
Take
cloud computing for example. It's the latest high-tech buzzword but do
you have any idea what that is? A new national survey by Wakefield
Research, commissioned by Citrix, suggests that the answer is "not
really" — over half of respondents, including a majority of [supposedly
computer literate] Millennials, believe that stormy weather can
interfere with cloud computing.
How about Moore's Law? In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that technology
seemed to be enabling the number of transistors on a microchip to
double every two years. In 1970, Carver Meade dubbed this "Moore's Law."
A graph of microchip production suggests that Moore was correct. Some
physicists believe that Moore's Law, while it describes the past, does
not predict the future. As transistors are made ever smaller they
approach the size at which atomic forces come into play, effectively
defining a minimum size, and hence a maximum speed, of the circuits in
question. This limit may be reached in the next five years to 12 years.
Even
if Moore's law should fail, faster computers are not precluded, but
speed will have to be achieved in some other way such as deploying
multiple processors working in parallel. I will return to Moore's Law in
a moment, but first a discussion about the cloud.
The cloud is
double talk — just a shorthand for computing that takes place somewhere
other than inside your computer whether that be actual computations,
data storage and retrieval, communications, or search. Some bright folks
thought that the concept of "elsewhere" was too nebulous so. Instead
they chose a term that connotes that most nebulous of things — a cloud.
The
aspect of the cloud that is important to you, especially if you are
considering a cloud-based EHR, is that the cloud is at the other end of a
narrow pipe. Every bit of information that you send or request has got
to pass through that pipe. While it is easy and cheap to buy a faster
computer, it is neither easy nor cheap to buy a faster pipe. The speed
and capacity of the pipe has not been doubling every two years, it has
been doubling every eight years to 10 years and there is no guarantee
when or if it will double again. Conclusion, connection speeds never
have, and never will, experience the exponential growth of chips.
When
you are using remote computing resources, the speed of your local
computer is almost irrelevant — well not completely, but if it is a
recent model it is. Speed is dependent on two factors: 1) how much
processing capacity the remote site is willing to allocate to YOU; and
2) the bandwidth (speed) of your connection.
There is a third
piece to this story — application complexity. Every time you ask your
EHR vendor for a new feature or the feds add certification criteria that
require additional program code, the demands placed on the system
increase. If the code is running locally, you may be able to offset the
increased demand with a faster processor.
If the code is running
in the cloud and if it requires more data to be transferred back and
forth between your location and the vendor’s site, then the performance
that you experience will get progressively worse as the applications get
more complex.
Since this slowdown has to do with the speed of
the connection, not the speed of my computer, Moore's Law is irrelevant.
If all computing is going to be cloud computing, I will never again
need to buy a new computer — and I will become increasingly dissatisfied
as the speed continues to degrade.
This is one of many reasons
that I choose, as much as possible, to keep my computing local. You
might want to carefully consider any decision to outsource your EHR to
the cloud. Assuming that you choose an EHR that has the potential to
"speed you up" if run locally, it could slow you down if run remotely,
in the cloud.
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