Case Study: Inova achieves rapid genomic insights and accelerates precision-medicine research with Cloudera

Inova uncovering breakthrough insights that help save lives

Inova, a not‑for‑profit integrated health system serving more than two million people annually, set out to accelerate precision medicine through its Translational Medicine Institute. The institute faced a major data challenge: petabytes of genomic and patient data were siloed and slow to aggregate, leaving researchers spending up to 80% of their time on data wrangling and waiting weeks or months for usable datasets.

By building a single, optimized data platform with Cloudera’s analytic database—proven via an AWS proof‑of‑concept and deployed on‑premise—Inova gave researchers fast access to terabytes of integrated data. Query times dropped from hours or days to seconds and minutes, research productivity rose, and teams can now test hypotheses and uncover correlations much faster, driving faster discoveries and better patient outcomes.

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Aaron Black

Chief Data Officer