Mayo Clinic and Mercy have achieved a significant milestone in their collaborative effort to leverage decades of data for early disease detection and healthcare transformation. This collaboration, initiated with a 10-year agreement in the summer of 2022, involves analyzing de-identified patient data to discover new methods for diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases. The goal is to improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.
Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network providing secure access to de-identified clinical data, is central to this initiative. Previously limited to internal data analysis within each organization, Mayo Clinic and Mercy can now securely analyze each other's de-identified patient data. This expanded dataset enhances researchers' ability to identify risk factors and predict illnesses more effectively.
"Mayo Clinic Platform is enabling innovation to change how care is provided," said John Halamka, M.D., president of Mayo Clinic Platform. "Today represents a significant milestone, demonstrating the power of collaboration in transforming healthcare."
The collaboration has recently expanded globally with the addition of three healthcare organizations: Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea, Singapore's SingHealth, and UC Davis Health in California. This brings the total number of Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect members to eight across seven countries on three continents.
"This is a major step toward moving healthcare from being reactive to proactively addressing the biggest concerns of patients and the communities we serve," said Joe Kelly, executive vice president and chief transformation officer for Mercy. "This unprecedented data set allows us to harness the power of artificial intelligence."
Each organization will retain control over its de-identified outcomes through Mayo Clinic Platform's Data Behind Glass approach. The development aims at creating products, algorithms, and tools that could be shared globally among health systems.
"After more than a year in development, we now have a platform that permits insights from Mercy's own data and that of Mayo Clinic," said Byron Yount, chief data and AI officer for Mercy. "This will significantly deepen partnerships...and ultimately improve care for patients everywhere."
Founded on Mayo Clinic's commitment to patient-centered care, this platform seeks innovative solutions through collaborations with health technology innovators. Both organizations emphasize their dedication to advancing clinical practice through education and research.
Mercy stands out as one of the largest U.S. health systems recognized for excellent patient experience by NRC Health. It operates numerous facilities across several states providing extensive community benefits including traditional charity care.
