As regulators and health care providers realize not only the volume of medical data, but also its fragility, new methods of data storage are being sought out.
CMR Surgical And Microsoft Collaboration Opens Up Questions About Surgical Data Storage
In a research venture tackling problems in data storage, CMR Surgical and Microsoft have teamed up to trial Microsoft’s new silica product by storing data acquired from CMR Surgical’s Versius robotic surgery system.
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