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. Our aim is to improve healthcare by making it simpler for researchers to use large, anonymised sets of patient data in a safe and ethical way.

INSIGHT is led by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust working in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. INSIGHT is built around our 'North Star' – a guiding principle for delivering benefit to patients and wider society through improving safe, efficient and ethical access to eye health data for research.

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.

Research updates

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

A clinician takes an OCT image of a person's eye, with the retinal layers appearing on a connected computer screen

Study flags evidence gaps in medical AI devices approved for patient eye care

A review of regulator-approved medical AI models in eye care has found that they vary widely in providing evidence for clinical performance and lacked transparency about training data.

Jun 15

Meet the data & AI researchers: Pearse Keane's Lab at ARVO 2025

Showcasing the rising stars of Pearse Keane's medical AI lab, spanning UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital

May 16

Data Saves Sight Pop-up Event

On Thursday 22nd May, INSIGHT is hosting a health data research pop-up at Moorfields Eye Hospital. We invite patients and public to discover how their eye data is making a difference to research.

May 9

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