Dejan Jovanov

Public health agencies have long relied on traditional, siloed informatics platforms that hinder data sharing, collaboration and real-time decision-making. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is addressing these challenges through the CDC Data Modernization Initiative — a comprehensive effort to enhance data collection, integration, analysis and dissemination. To support this transformation, IDPH is leveraging Snowflake’s leading-edge cloud-native platform features to create a scalable, interoperable and AI-driven data ecosystem. This session explores IDPH’s strategic approach to modernizing public health data infrastructure and how Snowflake is helping achieve these goals.

State health departments are modernizing data to break silos, enable AI-driven insights and improve outcomes. Leaders from Illinois, Massachusetts and Tennessee share how they built secure, scalable platforms using Snowflake to integrate data, govern sensitive information and power real-time analytics. This panel covers actionable steps for modernization for public health agencies and healthcare organizations on similar data journeys, including platform design, data governance, AI and advanced analytics use cases and lessons learned.