Finding cures faster by transforming big data into valuable clinical insight
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- IBM PureData System for Analytics
- Netezza technology
Tech Stack
- Data Analytics
- Big Data
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Innovation Output
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation’s medical research agency, made up of 27 Institutes and Centers. It is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, supporting thousands of scientists across America and around the globe. Every day, vast quantities of data are collected from patients who volunteer to participate in clinical trials at the NIH Clinical Center – America’s largest research hospital. The insights hidden within this wealth of information could hold the key to advancing medical research and enhancing patient care, but only if researchers are able to access and analyze the data.
The Challenge
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports and conducts vital medical research. However, it was facing challenges in helping scientists find rapid answers to research questions and drive treatment breakthroughs. The NIH collects vast quantities of data from patients who volunteer to participate in clinical trials at the NIH Clinical Center. The insights hidden within this wealth of information could hold the key to advancing medical research and enhancing patient care, but only if researchers are able to access and analyze the data. As technological and scientific advances increase the scale and pace of medical research, NIH must work to provide scientists with even faster insight into ever-increasing data volumes. A few years ago, the NIH Clinical Center realized that the volume and complexity of data threatened to outstrip the capacity of its existing systems.
The Solution
NIH is helping researchers unlock new insights from decades of data, using the IBM® PureData® System. Today, research teams can run queries on patient data in seconds, rather than minutes or hours, helping them conduct more thorough experiments and find more accurate answers to research questions. These insights can be used to uncover new patterns of disease and effective treatments, improving patient care and potentially saving lives. The NIH worked to supercharge the performance of its BTRIS applications, introducing the IBM PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza® technology. Today, researchers can run analyses on large, complex data sets and generate reports faster than ever before. Some queries that took up to five minutes to run now take just five seconds.
Operational Impact
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