Health systems should make plans now for a 'quantum-safe' future

After many years of tantalizing but unfulfilled promise, quantum computing's potential – in healthcare and beyond – is heating up in a big way. This past year, a cloud-accessible quantum computer with 400-plus qubits was shown to be achievable, a power four times that imagined until just recently.

Now, with leading-edge health systems such as the Cleveland Clinic already deploying quantum systems to advance the speed and precision of their clinical and life sciences research initiatives, it's time to …