Enabling AI-Driven Care: Northwestern Medicine’s Data Platform Modernization at Scale

Enabling AI-Driven Care: Northwestern Medicine’s Data Platform Modernization at Scale

Thursday, March 12, 2026 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM · 1 hr. (US/Pacific)
Level 5 | Palazzo K
Education Sessions
Executive - Leadership Strategies

Information

In the era of digital transformation, healthcare organizations must harness the power of data to drive innovation, efficiency and improved patient outcomes. At the forefront of this evolution, Northwestern Medicine is modernizing its data platform to enable AI driven care at scale. This transformation involves re architecting legacy systems into a cloud native, scalable, and interoperable data ecosystem that supports advanced analytics, machine learning and real time clinical decision making attributing toward better patient care.

The modernization effort focuses on integrating diverse data sources i.e. from electronic health records (EHRs) to imaging, genomics and IoT devices into a unified, secure and governed Data platform. By leveraging modern data architecture strategies and establishing guiding principles, Northwestern Medicine aims to reduce data silos and accelerate the deployment of intelligent healthcare applications on Cloud at scale.

Our session will explore the technical strategies behind Northwestern Medicine’s data platform modernization, including infrastructure choices, data governance frameworks, and AI/ML enablement. Join us to learn how Northwestern Medicine is redefining patient care through a robust, future ready data platform that empowers innovation across the healthcare continuum.

Topic
Strategic Planning and Execution
Target Audience
Data ScientistIT ProfessionalProgrammers/Developers
Level
Intermediate
Format
Best Practice
Learning Objective #1
Understand the core architectural components of NM's adoption of Modern, AI ready healthcare data platform, including cloud native design, medallion Data Architecture guiding principles and support for real time analytics and data interoperability standards (e.g. HL7 FHIR) adherence and implementation.
Learning Objective #2
Learn best practices from NM Cloud implementation journey of secure, compliant and unified Enterprise Data Repository (EDR) solution on the healthcare cloud platform, addressing data governance, ingestion and integration with cloud-native services. Improving Heart Failure Care with Machine Learning use case example walk through.
Learning Objective #3
Examine how Northwestern Medicine's Modern Data Platform supports Machine Learning team across clinical, operational and research data, enabling a single source of truth for data-driven healthcare innovation. Machine Learning for Echocardiogram Coding use case walk through.
Session #
188

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