Case Study
Uncovering Breakthrough Insights that Help Save Lives
Inova is a not-for-profit integrated health system that serves more than two million people each year. Challenge Which treatment is most effective for each patient? The Inova Translational Medicine Institute works to answer this question by driving innovation in precision medicine. But to achieve its goal, Inova faced two significant challenges: bringing together massive volumes of genomic and patient data for advanced analysis, and enabling faster exploration of that data. “With our previous data warehouse, it could take weeks and months to pull data together for researchers,” said Aaron Black, chief data officer of the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. “Additionally, our scale was getting so big that we couldn’t continue on that path.” Solution Inova has generated petabytes