Vinith Raj

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A Practical Architecture for Large-Scale Clinical Data Ingestion

December 14, 2025 / Leave a Comment

Clinical environments generate vast amounts of operational data from electronic medical records, oncology information systems, PACS archives, and imaging and treatment-planning platforms. This data has enormous value for research, AI model development, and quality improvement. Yet pulling this data from production systems in a form suitable for analysis is exceptionally difficult. The core challenge is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles Tagged: Architecture, Clinical Data Ingestion, Clinical Research Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Design, DICOM, Healthcare, Healthcare Data, Medical Imaging, Metadata Architecture, PostgreSQL JSONB, Research Computing