Firehose

The FDA built an AI platform, ELSA, using Databricks, which reached 85% staff adoption in just two months by consolidating data from eight centers into a single governed data foundation, Halo, streamlining data sharing and enabling real-time data processing. This consolidation effort reduced data sharing time from days to minutes and cut regulatory research times from days to three minutes. The FDA's Office of Digital Transformation used this platform to demonstrate the value of a foundational data platform, which became contagious and led to widespread adoption. AI summary