Building massive data platforms: lessons and challenges

IT and healthcare are a volatile combination! There is a long history of failed data projects! So how do you best build data platforms that are scalable and deliver the right outcomes? Dementias Platform UK is a world leading medical data platform with research data on 3.5m people and 60 cohort studies which brings together data from a vast range of sources including imaging, medical health records and the genome. John looks at what he has learnt since 2014. How do you best build such a platform and what are the mistakes to avoid?

Prof John Gallacher, Director, Dementias Platform UK, Oxford University Alex Beauvais, Partner, McKinsey & Company