For the first time, a quantum computer began to be built in a clinic

2022: Start of Quantum Computer Installation

In mid-October 2022, information appeared that a large private medical center, which is located in the American city of Cleveland, together with IBM, began installing the first quantum computer in the hospital.

Research and commercialization of therapeutic drugs and biomarkers has been ongoing since 2005. The so-called "discovery accelerator" will include a generative toolkit and modeling capabilities that AI uses to address knowledge gaps and create hypotheses to speed up these processes in U.S. healthcare.

Quantum computer began to build in the clinic

The joint project between IBM and the nonprofit academic medical center was named the Cleveland-IBM Discovery Accelerator and will be located on the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic. The project is part of a 10-year partnership between both organizations and will also be the first U.S. private quantum computer in a hospital to support health care.

The Cleveland-IBM Discovery Accelerator also includes RXN, a cloud-based application that uses AI and directly manages robotic labs for end-to-end production of new chemical compounds. Other applications include Deep Search, an AI tool for generating inferences from large volumes of structured and unstructured technical literature, and high-performance hybrid cloud computing to "surge" workloads in the cloud and expand access to resources for researchers.

We cannot afford to continue spending a decade or more going from a research idea in the lab to therapeutics on the market. Cleveland-IBM Discovery Accelerator offers a future to change that pace, especially in drug discovery and machine learning, said Cleveland Research Clinic Chief Information Officer Lara Jehi.

As a technological framework, the Cleveland Clinic's Global Center for Pathogen and Human Health Research plans to use Discovery Accelerator's advanced computing technologies to accelerate critical treatment and vaccine research for emerging pathogens and virus-related diseases.

In addition, both organizations created an educational program to educate students from high school to professional levels, and certification programs in data science, machine learning, and quantum computing to create the workforce needed for future computational research.^[1]

2021: IBM announces collaboration with Cleveland Clinic - quantum computer to be installed

At the end of March 2021 IBM , she announced a 10-year partnership with the Cleveland Clinic, which will develop the Discovery Accelerator laboratory. Her staff will be engaged in scientific research in the field health care and life sciences using and. quantum computing As artificial intelligence part of the partnership, IBM will install its first privately held IBM quantum computer Quantum System One on the clinic's Cleveland campus. Previously, systems were introduced only in state organizations.

A quantum computer will help "transform medicine," Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Tom Mihaljevic said in a statement.

These new computing technologies can revolutionize discoveries in the life sciences, he is sure.

IBM installs quantum computer on Cleveland clinic campus

Some studies will focus on genomics, chemical and drug discovery, single cell transcriptomics, population health and clinical application development. The researchers will also consider privacy protection when using big data to improve patient care and respond to global health crises such as COVID-19.

The Cleveland Clinic will have the full power of the quantum system we specifically built for them, said Anthony J. Annunziata, director of IBM Quantum Network. - We will have much more opportunities to integrate it into the existing infrastructure. This will bear fruit when we figure out how a quantum computer can solve really complex problems, as well as how it can speed up the application of artificial intelligence.

IBM said it will also install its first 1,000 + qubit next-generation quantum system at a client facility in Cleveland in the next few years.

In February 2021, IBM unveiled improvements to quantum computing software that it said would boost performance by a factor of 100.^[2][3]

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