Matt Barnfield

Ophthalmology generates vast amounts of imaging and clinical data. Yet fragmentation of this data slows both care and research. In this session, Matt Barnfield, Lead Data Engineer at Softwire, will share how we tackled these challenges in two partnerships: Moorfields Eye Hospital (UK) and Retina Consultants of America (US). We’ll compare the parallel difficulties we encountered and the shared patterns we used to overcome them, focusing on the new, powerful tools available for trusted researchers – from clinical trial recruitments to retrospective studies. We’ll dive into how we built cloud data platforms that ingest tens of millions of images from disparate silos and harmonise them with health records, transforming dataset curation from a manual process that took months into an automated pipeline that takes minutes. Through these case studies, we’ll show how modern data architecture can facilitate cutting-edge research and ultimately improve lives.