Minisymposium Presentation

The use of data from the health and social care system can have a complex set of technical and governance-based challenges around its secure and legal transfer to, and subsequent processing in academic supercomputing facilities. Through cross-institutional collaboration between UCL's Advanced Research Computing (ARC) Centre and UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, we have developed robust routes for the extraction, anonymisation and transfer of medical imaging from the hospital's imaging systems to trusted locations in the university for downstream computational use in research and education. The on-going success of this work has given us insights, that we will present, into the importance of aligning ways of working, technologies and platforms between the research IT functions in academia and the health sector.