Quantum Computing: A Primer for the Healthcare Industry
Rahul Bhandari, Daulat Sihag, Om Prakash Suthar
Quantum Computing (QC) has become an interdisciplinary and fast-developing field, with a lot of interest shown by both the academic and industrial community because of its essentially new paradigm of information processing and outstanding capabilities of the quantum computer based on its innovation and a complete break with the paradigm of non-quantum computing. Although this is the future of this potential, there is very little that is known of its transformative effect in the health industry. The survey is the first attempt to give a systematic and broad overview of how quantum computing can improve healthcare, especially in compute-intensive applications like optimization of operations, medical imaging, DNA sequencing, personalized medicine, and drug discovery. The concepts covered in this chapter are comprised of foundational concepts, enabling technologies, areas of applications, system requirements, and architectural models, security, unresolved challenges and imminent research directions. This chapter takes into consideration the general outlook on the quantum computing's significance in medicine and also serves as an efficient guide for new researchers or well-established ones looking into the area. It tries to bring light into the existing research environment, point out the prospects and the challenges and achieve the guidance of the design of future quantum-driven healthcare architectures and applications.
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