The Mayo Clinc Platform, the health system's innovation base, is adding Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, and Canada's University Health Network to its distributed data network, which already includes Missouri's Mercy health system.
The Mayo Clinic is expanding its AI-based data sharing network on a global scale.
The health system's innovation base, Mayo Clinic Platform, announced today that its distributed data network, called Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, will include Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil, Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and University Health Network in Canada. They join the Missouri-based Mercy health system, which joined the platform in 2022.
The announcement adds an international flavor to a fast-developing segment of healthcare. Those within the Mayo Clinic network will be able to use de-identified clinical data on the Data Behind Glass platform to test AI-enhanced solutions for clinical care.
"We describe the data needed for fair, equitable AI as having depth (types of information), breadth (number of patients) and spread (heterogeneity)," Mayo Clinic Platform President John Halamka, MD, said in a press release. "To transform healthcare globally, we must expand our distributed data networks to every continent. We must protect privacy, adhere to international laws and regulations, and incorporate knowledge from every language."
Officials said the partnership will initially focus on:
- Information Collaboration. "Secure cloud-based use of Data Behind Glass allows each collaborator to base decisions on a wider range of clinical outcomes gathered over time," officials said. "The information will help scientists analyze patterns of effective disease treatment and, more importantly, disease prevention in new ways, based on reviews of incremental clinical patient data over time."
- Solution and Algorithm Development, Validation, and Deployment. "The resulting AI-based solutions will provide proven treatment paths based on years of patient outcomes, representing the next generation of proactive and predictive medicine that can be used by care providers around the world," the press release noted.
The Mayo Clinic has been on the front lines of integrating AI into healthcare, and is a member of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), launched just last month. In 2021, the health system launched the Remote Diagnostics and Management Platform (RDMP), designed to aid AI and clinical diagnostics opportunities in remote patient monitoring programs.
This latest announcement pushes the platform out into the global healthcare market, with partnerships with three health systems known for their innovation.
"We are thrilled to be part of this historic alliance to transform the future of health," Eyal Zimlichman, MD, chief transformation officer and chief innovation officer at Sheba Medical Center and director and founder of ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center, said in the press release. "Creating a truly global network that will break down language barriers and enable the inclusion of diverse populations, we are unlocking the potential of AI solutions to revolutionize health care worldwide. This is not just a game-changer, but a visionary leap toward data-driven healthcare."
Eric Wicklund is the associate content manager and senior editor for Innovation, Technology, and Pharma for HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The Mayo Clinic Platform is the health system's clinical innovation arm, headed by John Halamka, MD
Today's announcement creates an international network whereby some of the world's leading health systems can share di-identified data to test and perfect AI-enhanced solutions for clinical care.
The network's initial goals are to develop, validate, and deloy new algorithms and solutions focused on improving clinical care and disease prevention and treatment.