How Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust uses Snowflake to transform healthcare

Tech researcher Forrester says the opportunity is clear: healthcare organizations can transform clinical workflows and research practices with emerging technologies. The issue, however, is that exploiting data-enabled technologies demands additional time and resources.

That’s a challenge recognized by Erik Mayer, Transformation Chief Clinical Information Officer at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, whose organization is eager to support ever-growing demands for data use in clinical and research settings.

But the Trust also recognized that making raw data research-ready for translational data analytics or AI requires significant engineering resources.

While it had a robust, well-governed, and secure approach to cleaning its data, these processes were manually intensive, and the Trust was eager to use technology to reduce the cost and complexity of cleaning and sharing its data. It’s here that Snowflake’s data pipeline and ingestion technologies are playing a crucial role.

Imperial started working with Snowflake about three years ...