Mayo Clinic and Mercy this week announced what they’re calling a “first-of-its-kind alliance” between these two leading-edge IT and informatics pioneers, reports Healthcare IT News.
The 10-year agreement will see Mayo and Mercy focus on data science for improved patient outcomes, using the troves of deidentified patient data each organization has amassed over the past decade-plus to help detect diseases earlier and enable more effective interventions.
Leaders from both health systems say the early plan is to concentrate on information collaboration and algorithm development and validation.
They’ll use a distributed data network that enables Mayo and Mercy to work with deidentified datasets without extracting or transferring any data between them. Instead, each organization will retain control over its data outcomes throughout the process.
The goal is to help data scientists analyze patterns of effective disease treatment and prevention based on longitudinal data review over extended periods of time. Read more.
