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St James's Hospital needed to modernize aging laboratory infrastructure because legacy on-premises systems slowed genomic diagnostics, limited storage for sequencing data, complicated ISO 15189 compliance and reduced the speed and resilience required for cancer care and research.
Reported impact
St James's Hospital improved resilience, compliance and diagnostic speed for cancer care by giving laboratory teams faster genomic analysis, continuous access to cloud tools and stronger security for sensitive patient data, while also reducing turnaround times for results and reporting.
St James's Hospital worked with EY and Microsoft to replace legacy laboratory infrastructure with a bespoke cloud platform for genomic diagnostics. The team migrated on-premises data infrastructure to Azure so high volumes of genome-sequencing data could be stored, protected and accessed more efficiently across laboratory teams. Multiple laboratory systems, analyzers and equipment were connected into the new environment, while cloud-based genome sequencing tools gave scientists continuous access to data and results. Microsoft Fabric added parallel data-analysis pipelines and automated overnight processes, and machine learning was used to derive critical insights from genomic data for diagnosis and treatment planning. The architecture improved backup resilience, strengthened security controls and supported ISO 15189 requirements while making cancer-screening and molecular-testing workflows faster, more scalable and easier to operate.
Patient specimens are sequenced and the resulting genomic data is stored in Azure, where multiple laboratory systems feed the cloud environment. Microsoft Fabric runs parallel analysis pipelines and automated overnight processes, machine learning derives clinically relevant insights, and laboratory scientists use the cloud-based sequencing tools to retrieve results and report findings across the service.
"Furthermore, Microsoft Fabric allowed for parallel data analysis pipelines, further boosting operational efficiency."
"The EY-Microsoft Alliance helped future-proof services across St James's Hospital by developing a customized, bespoke cloud solution using Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform."
"The hospital has been empowered by leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning for critical insights from genomic data — essential for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment planning."
"The platform has also dramatically reduced laboratory processing times in the National MRSA Reference laboratory for real-time data analysis of specimens from approximately nine hours to less than two hours."
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