Three World-Renowned Health Systems Join Mercy in Mayo Clinic Platform’s Leave a comment
After months of planning and preparation to ensure the effort would be a success, active data analysis is now beginning. To enable this work, technological platforms had to be built to ensure data insights could be examined securely between the organizations, without any risk to patients.
Once fully operational, the collaboration will allow Mercy and the other members of Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect to develop products and tools for their systems, but also ones that could be made available to other health systems for use in the same transformative way, potentially impacting the practice of medicine across the globe.
The multi-system collaboration anticipates that artificial intelligence and machine learning will lead to the development of numerous algorithms and technologies that could serve a wide range of specific purposes beyond the broad goal of improving care.
“With this data, we could develop models that identify patients with underlying disease or disease risk earlier in the process,” said Byron Yount, an epidemiologist and Mercy’s vice president of data strategy and governance. “Early detection generally means more successful treatment and quicker recovery. The ability to predict cancer before it happens means we may be able to prevent cancer from occurring. Every doctor wants that for our patients. Are there earlier signs of disease and risk than we currently understand? As importantly, are there proactive actions that are safe and effective? Let’s find out. That kind of care is what this work is all about.”
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