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The Inside Story: GE Healthcare's Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture
1. The Inside Story: GE Healthcare's Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT) Architecture
Matt Grubis, Chief Engineer, GE Healthcare's Life Care Solutions
Stan Schneider, CEO RTI
2. Digital Health… the future of
Healthcare!
Matthew Grubis
Chief Engineer
GE Healthcare –
Life Care Solutions
3. GE Healthcare Today
• $18 billion: global business unit of GE
• 46,000: number of employees
worldwide
• $1 billion+ per year investment in R&D
• 35,800 patents filed by GE since 2000
• Core strengths in bio-sciences,
medical imaging & information
technologies
• Headquartered in Pollards Wood, UK
–President: John Flannery
7. The Things of Caregiving
Title or Job Number | XX Month 201X 7
1.5 GB of raw
physiological data
per day for the
“average”
monitored patient.
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Global Healthcare themes
Life expectancy 6.7 years over last years, population
growing
15% of pop have asthma, hypertension or diabetes
100M hospital patients per year are monitored partially
Hospital acquired infections…sepsis number one “killer”
Adverse events…0.5M preventable deaths per year
Clinician “alarm fatigue” is at risk to every ICU’ patient every
day…ECRI #1 Hazard
Acute care: 5% of patients, 50% of care givers…80% of
resources
Length of stay, re-admissions, manual errors…costs
Pre-hospital/Sub-acute/Home: 95% of patients, 50% care
givers…20% of resources
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Chronic disease … the “industry” future
35 million deaths from chronic disease
80% of chronic disease deaths occur in
low-mid income countries
1 billion people overweight in developed
& developing countries
U.S. cost of chronic disease on path
to double by 2020
Diabetes set to double in 10 years,
stroke & heart disease rising
Cardio-
vascular
diseases
Cancer Chronic
respiratory
disease
Diabetes
17.5M
7.6M
4.1M
1.4M
Chronic disease deaths
worldwide
Sources: WHO Preventing
Chronic Diseases, Milken
Institute Analysis
U.S. projected rise in chronic disease:
2000-2020
29%
Cance
r
62%
53%
42%
39%
31%
Diabete
s
Heart
disease
Hyper-
tension
Pulmonary
Stroke
1
2
3
4
5
6
By 2020, 75% of all deaths and costs
result from chronic disease
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Industry productivity … or lack thereof
-0.8%
-0.7%
-0.3%
2.3%
2.5%
3.5%
4.0%
6.0%
7.2%
7.6%
Healthcare
Education
Mining
Transportation
Manufacturing
Utilities
Retail Trade
Telecom Services
Internet & Data Processing
Computers & Semiconductors
Productivity Improvement %, 1990-2010
Source: McKinsey & Company, “How US healthcare
companies can thrive amid disruption”, June 2014
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Global Industrial Internet Themes
1 Internet of Things – A living network
of machines,
data and
people
2
Intelligent Machines – Increasing system
intelligence through
embedded software
3
Big Data – Transforming massive
volumes of information into
intelligence
4
Analytics – Generating data-driven
insights, enhancing
performance
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The value to customers is huge
Connected machines could eliminate up to $150 billion in waste across
industries
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Introducing the GE Software Center
Igniting the next industrial
revolution by connecting
minds and machines
$1B investment
over 3 years
•Launched in 2011
•Silicon Valley
location, expanding
•Strategy for talent
acquisition & growth
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What is Digital Health?
• Care delivered in an analog/paper way
• Physicians largely unaware of
patients’ health until:
-Annual checkups
-Emergency events
-Chronic disease follow up visits
Digital/networked tools of tomorrow enable:
• Real-time, continuous information across
care settings
• Comprehensive & relevant view of health
• Chronic disease management, wellness,
and prevention
Analog Digital & networked
Source: http://storyofdigitalhealth.com/
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The promises of Digital Health
Digital technology will enable novel clinical applications and health delivery
models within and beyond the traditional care continuum
The convergence of hardware, software and services will
enable novel integrated healthcare solutions. Digital
technology is expected to drive structural changes.
Care will shift out of the hospital... …and focus more on prevention & management
Prevent Treat Manage
• Telemedicine
• Condition-specific solutions
• Patient-centric devices
• Consumer incentives & “gamification”
• Collaborative care
• Remote monitoring
Source: GE analysis
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Connectivity Critical for the Life Care Ecosystem
Connectivity that is:
• “Real-time” – less than a second to distribute
physiological information and events.
• Robust – overcomes faulty mediums (WLANs,
WANs)
• Durable – allows for loss of connectivity
• Secure – endpoint authentication, subscription
authentication, encryption, auditing
• Architected – fan-out is by design and not the
burden of the endpoint (weakest point in
network), or only a single infrastructure point
(choke point).
• Conservative – with bandwidth (end-point
filtering), with memory, with CPU… especially on
battery operated wearable devices
• Scalable – from 2 devices to 200,000 devices –
keeping burden on client level while maintaining
robustness
• “Internet Friendly” - Supports NATs and
Firewalls
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GE HealthCare is Using DDS Provided by Real-time
Innovations
• Proven vendor of DDS
technology stack in
multiple segments
• End-point support for
multiple operating
systems
• Full and robust security
solution
• Additional OOB services
for routing and discovery
• Outstanding set of design,
troubleshooting and
monitoring tools
• Very capable and
responsive support staff
• Experience in mission-
critical systems
20. The Industrial IoT & RTI Connext DDS
Stan Schneider, RTI CEO
IIC Steering Committee Member
23. 200+ companies strong
Goal: build and prove a common
architecture that spans sensor to
cloud, interoperates between
vendors, and works across industries
30. Data Centric is the Opposite of OO
Object Oriented
• Encapsulate data
• Expose methods
Data Centric
• Encapsulate methods
• Expose data
Explicit
Shared
Data
Model