Category: Partners

Essential iCARE partner Snowflake joins research cluster


The imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is happy to share that Snowflake is now an official partner of Paddington Life Sciences cluster.

In a statement published by ICHT on 2 December, Erik Mayer, director of iCARE, said:

“I am delighted that Snowflake has joined Paddington Life Sciences and as a key partner in delivering the iCARE Secure Data Environment and Digital Collaboration Space infrastructure to the benefit of all the Paddington Life Science Partners; it will be critical to ensure that we can deliver on our digital and data innovation and real-time monitoring solutions research focus areas, as well as our social value and diversity and inclusion in clinical trials workstreams.”

Snowflake hosts the secure data environment that allows iCARE to provide access to healthcare data from North West London.

Snowflake is the first remote partner within Paddington Life Sciences, and we are excited by the opportunities that this will bring for the future of the cluster.

Erik Mayer and iCARE Deputy Director Ben Glampson have regularly spoken at seminars hosted by Snowflake in partnership with the Health Services Journal. The most recent one in October, discussed how data can improve patient outcomes. 

iCARE is a digital research facility in partnership with Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, located at the Digital Collaboration Space within Paddington Life Sciences. Our mission is to facilitate safe access to data within a secure data environment to advance healthcare solutions with use of care data from Northwest London. iCARE contributes to the One London initiative (NHS England Sub National Secure Data Environment programme) and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

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