Less than a year in, the 10-year collaboration agreement between Mercy and Mayo Clinic is going global through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network. After first joining with Mercy to collaborate last summer, Mayo Clinic has also reached similar agreements with Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and Canada's University Health Network.
The organizations help patients by using deidentified patient data to pinpoint diseases earlier and transform healthcare delivery and the practice of medicine to a much more preventative and wellness care focused model.
"The only way to create trustworthy AI that puts patients first is to build global partnerships for the creation and validation of algorithms. Mercy is uniquely positioned to ensure healthcare innovations are fair, appropriate, valid, equitable and safe," said John Halamka, MD, president of Mayo Clinic Platform.
Each organization will be able to analyze the others’ data from deidentified patient records to look for trends, indicators, risk factors and more. All data are deidentified and secured in a data network that enables the organizations to work with an extensive set of outcomes without extracting or transferring data between the organizations. Each healthcare system will retain control over its deidentified outcomes throughout the process. Mayo describes it as Data Behind Glass.