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Building a research data & AI platform for medicine at the IKARD
During the Health AI & CyberSec Summit 2026, together with Hubert Łazarczyk, Head of the Center for Digital Medicine at the National Institute of Cardiology, we presented how we built a healthcare data platform on AWS that unifies structured clinical records and medical imaging datasets.
Agenda
- The platform at a glance
- Clinical data: from hospital to FHIR and OMOP
- Medical imaging at scale: DICOM
- Research environments and lessons learned
Key topics
- what the platform is and why it splits into a controlled data platform and isolated research environments, each on its own AWS account;
- how clinical data is extracted from the hospital system into FHIR, the interoperability standard for healthcare data;
- why no off-the-shelf tool does it, and why FHIR alone is not enough so we also convert to the OMOP data format;
- how 530 TB of medical imaging data is stored and served with AWS HealthImaging, pulled on demand, and de-identified;
- how researchers actually work inside isolated per-project environments, and the honest lessons and trade-offs from building the whole thing on managed AWS services.
Speaker
Amazon Athena
Notes
- The event took place at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw (Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20).
- Tickets were limited and registration was required.
- The Health AI & CyberSec Summit brings together healthcare and pharma leaders across Europe to share knowledge and practical experience on cybersecurity, data protection, and AI.
- With over 400 participants and +40 sessions, the agenda focused on real-world applications of AI and current challenges in healthcare. Lectures were conducted in Polish and English.
- Any questions? Get in touch.