Lightning Talk: Diagnosis in a Box - Raghuram Banda, Red Hat
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 14/11/2023

Lightning Talk: Diagnosis in a Box - Raghuram Banda, Red Hat

The "Last Mile" is the often unbridged final distance between a service and a user. In healthcare, this can be the gulf between an AI app and a diagnosis. We present a use case at Boston Children's Hospital where the Edge and Kubernetes are used to bridge this mile and deliver patient-specific analysis to a doctor and improve outcomes. ChRIS-In-A-Box (ChBox) is a self-provisioning system that can schedule containerized workloads on a K8S platform . Operating at the Edge between research computing and clinical care, ChBox can autonomously analyze patient data by pulling in-prem to the computing Edge, run analysis, and then push results back into clinical systems. Moreover, ChBoxes can mesh compute, stitching different network Edges together. We will show how we build and use ChRIS In A Box, and demo an Edge device used at Boston Children's Hospital. Attendees will see how to solve the last mile problem using cloud native technology that they can apply to their own Edge challenges