Mayo Clinic has launched a new digital initiative called Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights. This platform enables healthcare organisations worldwide to benefit from Mayo Clinic's digital expertise, data insights and clinical knowledge. The goal is to bridge the digital divide in healthcare and accelerate the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that directly contributes to better patient care.
According to Maneesh Goyal, Chief Operating Officer of Mayo Clinic Platform, the programme helps healthcare institutions deal more effectively with the rapid development of AI in healthcare. ‘When we share knowledge, we make better decisions – both in diagnosis and treatment. This programme allows us to share our expertise and help healthcare professionals worldwide improve the quality of care.’
Data-driven insights
Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights provides access to data-driven insights, supported by AI and enriched with best practices and clinical guidelines from the Mayo Clinic. The platform offers healthcare organisations a guided and affordable route to digital transformation without the complexity often associated with technological innovation.
‘Digital solutions and AI have enormous potential to transform healthcare,’ said Goyal. ‘But the barrier to effectively applying these technologies is high. By working with us, healthcare organisations gain access to proven clinical and administrative solutions, and the technical infrastructure to seamlessly integrate them.’
Trained and validated solutions
The solutions on the platform have been trained and validated through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a global health data network of academic and research institutions. This network currently includes more than 26 petabytes of clinical information, including 3 billion laboratory tests, 1.6 billion clinical notes and 6 billion medical images, covering hundreds of complex conditions.
According to Dr. Clark Otley, Chief Medical Officer of Mayo Clinic Platform, digital innovation is ultimately about human-centred care: ‘Technology should enhance medical practice, not complicate it. With Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, we are bringing the human aspect back into digital medicine, with one clear goal: to improve the patient experience and health outcomes.’
With this new step, Mayo Clinic not only wants to accelerate the application of AI in healthcare, but also to build a global ecosystem in which knowledge sharing, data-driven innovation and patient-centred care go hand in hand.
Mayo Clinic Platform
In 2024, John Halamka, then president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, visited the ICT&health World Conference. Prior to that, he was interviewed for our magazine (Dutch). His mission: to use AI and data innovation to make high-quality healthcare accessible to everyone, worldwide. In the run-up to his keynote speech at the ICT&health World Conference 2024, he talks about the origins and ambition of the platform.
The Mayo Clinic Platform was founded in 2019 to enable frictionless collaboration between healthcare institutions, governments and companies. According to Halamka, innovation and collaboration in the US are often slowed down by strict privacy and security rules. That is why Mayo Clinic created an infrastructure in which a hundred years of medical data is available to researchers and innovators in the cloud, securely and anonymously.
The platform now collaborates with institutions in Brazil, Israel, Canada and South Korea, accounting for data from more than 30 million patients, with the aim of tripling that number. The insights are used to develop AI models that, for example, analyse radiology images faster and more accurately. These innovations are directly integrated into the workflow of doctors, so that technology supports healthcare professionals rather than replacing them.
