INSIGHT
The Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health

Improving healthcare for the benefit of patients, the NHS and wider society by enabling safe and trusted research access to anonymised data

What is INSIGHT?

We are an NHS-led initiative set up to make routinely collected eye data available for approved health research. Based at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, INSIGHT has grown to become the world’s largest bioresource of eye imaging data linked to medical records.

INSIGHT continuously curates and anonymises eye health data, creating valuable datasets for research. We also provide state-of-the-art computing infrastructure to ensure secure data access for approved researchers, and offer expertise for development of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Our mission is to deliver benefit to patients and wider society by making it possible for health researchers to use large, anonymised sets of patient data in a safe and ethical way.

About us

INSIGHT at a glance

Together with our NHS partners, we are working with researchers from academia, industry and charity sectors to transform the way diseases are diagnosed, treated and managed in the UK and beyond.

Discovery

We grant trusted researchers access to INSIGHT's unrivalled datasets to develop AI-enabled diagnostic tools for earlier detection of eye disease and systemic disease such as dementia and diabetes.

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Innovation

Through collaboration with industry partners and others with complementary expertise, we can transform research discoveries into real-world solutions, so that everyone can benefit.

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Care

Our goal is to realise quicker, faster diagnosis and treatment for sight loss and some of the most widespread diseases of our time, including diabetes and dementia. Patient data is key to this work.

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INSIGHT Data Dashboard

Data Dashboard

We are the world's largest ophthalmic imaging bioresource.
This dashboard provides an overview of our data, and the research it enables. Figures are updated regularly.*

35,675,943

eye images

2,339,349

patients represented

235 research projects

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* last updated: September 2024

Latest Updates

Colour photo of Elaine Manna (centre) with Daphne Koller (left) and Pearse Keane (right)

Celebrating the legacy of patient advocate Elaine Manna

Elaine Manna passed away in July 2025 after many years of valued contribution as a patient champion for the benefits of health data research and artificial intelligence to improve healthcare. Here, Pearse Keane shares the eulogy he gave at Elaine's funeral, reflecting on their friendship, Elaine's resolve to make a difference, and her lasting impact on eye health research.

Nov 20

Photo of Pearse Keane in front of his computer, with images of the retina onscreen

New initiative to transform UK eye health research by linking national data resources

The UK will benefit from a new initiative to scale the INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health and Oculomics – the world’s largest collection of curated eye imaging and linked clinical data at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Nov 5

OCT image with AI segmentation of different parts of the retina

AI can identify treatment gaps for patients with macular disease, study shows

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in eye clinics could reduce both undertreatment and overtreatment of neovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Oct 30

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