8 TECH OUTLOOKDec - Jan 2016In My OpinionUsing the Cloud to Manufacture the Right Drugs More Efficiently The cloud has the potential to offer incredible asset performance management benefits for the pharmaceutical industry. Medicine makers are looking for ways to manufacture therapies more efficiently, and the answer could lie in the cloud and Big Data-more specifically, the ability to turn stores of data into actionable insights that help deliver drugs to market more quickly and with less resource constraints. Data and analytics can help pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers avoid failed drug lots, fail clinical trials faster, and pinpoint opportunities to make manufacturing processes more efficient.Using the cloud to combine large scale analytics processing with secure computing, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers could be able to create a "digital twin" for every asset-allowing them to monitor their operations and be proactive about preventing issues. Just as GE analytics predict when an aircraft engine needs maintenance, I see a future where we can also use predictive analytics to detect when a bioreactor, chromatography column, or any other critical piece of equipment in a drug production line needs servicing. If there is an emerging problem with a piece of equipment either before, or even during, a pharmaceutical run, the issue could be called out and fixed before it causes material problems. Secure cloud capability makes computing and storage unlimited for a pharmaceutical company. Oftentimes,the data captured is so abundant and overwhelming that the most difficult challenge is to turn all of that raw information into actionable insights. GE's role as a digital industrial company is to do just that; collect data and use it to find tangible opportunities to drive smarter operations across many different industrial processes. Pharmaceuticals and healthcare are part of that big digital industrial picture. This has dramatically shifted the way we view IT's role in the healthcare environment. IT has gone from managing boxes and bandwidth, to driving excellence in analyzing data in a way that could impact the bottom line. Technical successes are not as important as breakthroughs in delivering care, and GE Healthcare is positioned to lead that transformation with the realization of the cloud and its Big Data analytics. Cloud; Promising Trend in Precision MedicineBy Chris Larkin, General Manager, Software Engineering ­GE Healthcare, Life Sciences
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