Sydney-based healthcare firm harrison.ai deploys NVIDIA systems in Equinix

Harrison.ai, a Sydney-based healthcare firm that creates medical devices with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, has deployed eight NVIDIA DGX A100 systems in an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney to advance its AI health-tech development. Equinix owns and operates a network of over 240 IBX data centres across the world.

NVIDIA DGX A100 systems are advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) that enable enterprises to consolidate training, inference, and analytics into a unified AI infrastructure. Harrison.ai is a member of NVIDIA Inception program that is designed to help startups with access to cutting-edge technology, connect with venture capitalists, and provide other support. 

The company said, this deployment enabled harrison.ai to launch annalise.ai, a Joint Venture with I-MED Radiology Network that offers radiology services and operates primarily in Australia and in the UK. It also helped the firm to develop its first product, Annalise Enterprise CXR, an AI clinical decision-support solution for chest X-rays, capable of detecting up to 124 findings, it said. Further, Equinix offers the healthcare firm a secure hosting of its compute and data storage platforms.

Aengus Tran, CEO & Co-Founder, harrison.ai explained in a press release that the partnership provides harrison.ai with a faster and direct connection to enable hybrid cloud models to move remarkably large data sets on which the company trains and develops its AI solutions.

"This digital infrastructure enables us to tackle bigger healthcare problems, from annalise.ai’s medical imaging solutions, to new AI healthcare solutions requiring more data and processing. By hosting our compute requirements in a secure and cost-effective way, we can quickly and efficiently deploy AI solutions worldwide, improve the standard of global healthcare and achieve our vision to impact one million lives per day,” Tran added.

According to a research report published by Toronto Canada-based global investment bank in February 2022, approximately 30% of all the world's data volume is now being generated by the healthcare industry, and by 2025 the compound annual growth rate for health data will be 36%, the report said.

Realising the urgent needs to transform and future-prove their digital infrastructure to handle the exponential health data, healthcare organisations are at various stages of digital transformation and embracing AI and data analytics, it added.