In conjunction with HIMSS 2025, we’re eager to learn about the innovations taking place to address the ongoing challenges to healthcare including lowering the costs of care, effectively managing the health of the expanding aging population, and improving the quality of and access to care.
AMD and Lenovo are excited to share the products and solutions we are putting forward to help power the healthcare community to achieve their goals. Many of the innovations currently under development include leveraging imaging, AI assisted diagnostic guidance, digital microscopy, digital pathology, AI modeling, AR/VR, and basic science research in the fields of genomics, and computational chemistry.
Each of these healthcare capabilities come with their own set of challenges — each requiring an enormous amount of compute power. That’s where AMD powered Lenovo Workstations come in. The Lenovo ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series Workstations are designed for advanced healthcare applications which can power these fields of development and innovative.
At the Forefront of Medical Research
One provider relying on AMD powered Lenovo devices driving access to and performing research for healthcare is Versiti. As the fourth largest independent blood center in the United States, Versiti serves hospitals in the Midwest through blood donation, science, and groundbreaking research.
“Technology touches everything that we do, how fast we can do it, and the quality with which we can do it,” says Chris Miskel, CEO of Versiti. Working with Lenovo — from using its Yoga 500W devices and ThinkEdge servers in mobile blood collection centers to providing researchers in the Blood Research Institute with ThinkStations powered by the AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ — helps them achieve goals faster.
In the Blood Research Institute specifically, researchers often work with instrumentation that requires complex computational capability, and the Lenovo ThinkStations’ processing power provides researchers the ability to perform those complex tasks.
“A lot of what we do is obviously collect and then analyze data,” says Dr. Lynn Malec, senior medical director at Versiti. “At the heart of being able to do that well is being able to have optimized technology.”
By being able to analyze data quickly and efficiently, Versiti can help advance research that creates possible treatments for patients.
The Next Frontier of Healthcare Technology
Lenovo is also working with startup companies to help them develop new technologies and innovative healthcare solutions. Brain-Computer-Interfacing (BCI) is a scientific community dedicated to exploring new ways to bring hope for those with a broad range of physical impairments. The BCI researchers are seeking to better understand the mind to improve human wellbeing.
Recently, Lenovo began working with OpenBCI, a pioneer in the wearable BCI field. OpenBCI’s goal is to lower the barrier to entry for brain-computer interfacing. Their Galea solution is a combined hardware and software platform that brings together next-generation biometrics and mixed reality. Merging a multi-modal sensor system with the immersion of mixed reality, Galea gives researchers, developers, and creators a powerful new tool for understanding and augmenting the human mind and body.
Christian Bayerlein is a German technologist and disability rights activist living with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease that affects the motor neurons that control voluntary muscle movement. During a TedTalk, Christian and OpenBCI founder Conor Russomanno demonstrated how residual muscle activity from Christian’s body could be repurposed to control and fly a drone through BCI using Galea and the company’s NeuroFly solution.
The process for the user is like learning how to use a keyboard for the first time. With practice, using the BCI solution, the brain adapts and learns how to use the new neural controls effortlessly. The same sensors and interaction methods used for NeuroFly could be applied to control a range of physical or digital tools.
OpenBCI tested many different machine learning and data processing pipelines while developing NeuroFly and the project was made possible in part through resources and expertise donated by Lenovo Workstations. The final demonstration used relatively simple signal processing techniques to analyze the range of data generated by Galea’s numerous sensors. However, having access to powerful computational capabilities provided by the Lenovo Workstation’s AMD CPU, fast access to memory, and GPU horsepower, the OpenBCI’s ability to explore different engineering paths was greatly accelerated. Lenovo ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series Workstations have the unique characteristics of being able to support these intensive workstreams without support from the cloud because of their large number of compute cores, fast processor clock speeds, huge memory capacity and bandwidth.
Preparing for Future Healthcare IT Requirements
In a field as critical as healthcare, it is important to continue to seek ways to provide better patient care and outcomes. As the technologies and techniques applied to healthcare continue to evolve, emerging solutions are creating these pathways for healthcare professionals and patients alike.
While AI is already helping in diagnostics and imaging, predictive analytics as it relates to patient outcomes, and personalized medicine, require speed and power — and Lenovo’s Workstation portfolio, powered by the AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ processors, are up to the task.
Learn more about how Lenovo is helping healthcare organizations leverage innovative technology to uplevel patient care.