{"slug":"a-modern-data-warehouse-for-tomorrow-s-healthcare-needs","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/a-modern-data-warehouse-for-tomorrow-s-healthcare-needs","title":"A Modern Data Warehouse for Tomorrow's Healthcare Needs","description":"Premier, a U.S. healthcare improvement company serving two out of three U.S. healthcare providers, migrated from a mix of Teradata, Azure Synapse and Oracle to Databricks SQL to support an AI-first strategy and deliver AI-ready data for products including Quality Enterprise (a benchmarking tool used by 20,000+ users) and INsights (an AI-ready analytics platform used by 77 health systems). Because Databricks SQL runs on the same unified platform as Databricks' AI and ML capabilities, Premier can prepare and serve AI-ready data directly from its warehouse. Premier's 500+ field consultants use AI features including Genie Code and Databricks Assistant to generate SQL queries and speed up analysis; the company reports patient flow analyses that once took days now complete in under three hours. Premier projects roughly $1M in annual savings, 30%+ improvement in ad-hoc analytics development, and 40% improvement in developer productivity for one of its first migrated teams.","company":"Premier Inc","industry":"Healthcare","aiCapabilities":["Generative AI"],"technology":["Databricks SQL","Genie Code","Databricks Assistant"],"deployment":"Public Cloud","problemStatement":"Premier processes massive amounts of data in a regulated industry known for strict compliance requirements and a fragmented data landscape. Payers, providers, independent practitioners, and suppliers all generate data in fragmented systems across the healthcare ecosystem that are difficult to integrate, and strict privacy regulations make the challenge even greater. With Teradata and Synapse, cost efficiency and concurrency became harder to optimize as usage increased at scale.","solutionApproach":"By migrating from a mix of existing data warehouses (Teradata, Azure Synapse and Oracle) to Databricks SQL, Premier addressed data readiness, performance and rising demand across its solutions. With Databricks SQL Serverless, Premier can scale efficiently and allocate compute by workload. Premier's 500+ on-the-ground consultants now benefit from AI features integrated into Databricks, such as Genie Code and Databricks Assistant, which can help generate SQL queries, explain complex code, and identify and fix errors.","businessValue":"Premier projects roughly $1M in annual savings, 30%+ improvement in ad-hoc analytics development in the advisory group, and 40% improvement in developer productivity in one of the first migrated teams; consultants can now complete a patient flow analysis in less than three hours that previously could take days.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.databricks.com/customers/premier","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-05T09:05:05.796Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-05T09:05:05.796Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/a-modern-data-warehouse-for-tomorrow-s-healthcare-needs. Bulk republication requires permission."}