“Utilizing Snowflake creates an infrastructure that empowers our teams to act on insights in real time — whether enhancing patient care and experience or optimizing operations,” states Christopher Habib, NMC’s Chief Strategy Officer.

This aligns with NMC’s broader initiative to streamline operations as UAE hospitals face pressure to adopt new technologies. 

Healthcare authorities are demanding stronger oversight of data, while increasing patient volumes necessitate more efficient use of staff and equipment.

However, the challenges are significant.

Medical information is dispersed across numerous formats – from large imaging scans to routine notes and lab results. 

Integrating these systems into a cohesive, functional flow has long posed a major challenge for hospital IT teams.

How Middle East healthcare is embracing cloud computing

This collaboration marks the swift transition of regional healthcare systems towards cloud-based analytics, driven by the increasing need to support expanding patient bases that current IT infrastructures struggle to accommodate.

Snowflake’s platform offers the ability to store and process extensive datasets without the need for dedicated data centres.

The system’s elasticity enables it to scale computational power according to hospital demands for additional data analysis, then return to normal levels to manage costs effectively.

This capability is vital for healthcare providers as they tackle challenges such as disease outbreak tracking and treatment pattern recognition, which improve operational performance and treatment methodologies.

Tareq Masoud, Country Manager of Snowflake’s UAE operations, believes healthcare is one of the fastest-growing markets for cloud analytics in the region.