Mayo Clinic announced today that researchers and solutions developers now have access to decades of high-level, de-identified data from Mercy through Mayo Clinic Platform's secure, privacy-preserving infrastructure. Mercy, one of the 15 largest health systems in the U.S., has 55 acute care and specialty hospitals in both urban and rural communities in the Midwest.
Through Mayo Clinic Platform, researchers, data scientists and innovators can now analyze larger, more diverse patient populations from both Mayo Clinic and Mercy to explore new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases. This expanded data set enhances research by reducing demographic bias that can occur with single-institution data, and it supports more representative research studies.
With this data collaboration, Mayo Clinic Platform now provides visibility into de-identified data from more than 15.2 million patients, including:
- 12.6 billion images
- 3.2 billion lab test results
- 10.1 million pathology reports
- 1.65 billion clinical notes
"This collaboration opens the door to insights no single health system could achieve alone and reflects Mayo Clinic's commitment to transforming the future of healthcare," says John Halamka, M.D., Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform. "This work is designed to drive innovation in healthcare by accelerating research and enabling the creation of new solutions that transform future clinical practice."
Using Mayo Clinic Platform's secure capabilities, each organization retains full control of its own information. No data is transferred or moved.
"This joint effort will transform healthcare to predict illness earlier, improve outcomes, shorten hospital stays, and deliver more proactive, patient-centered care that ultimately saves lives," says Gavin Helton, M.D., Mercy's president of primary care.
This collaboration is part of a 10-year agreement between Mercy and Mayo Clinic to transform healthcare. By adding insights from more diverse patient populations, the two organizations have taken a significant step forward in accelerating research and supporting future advances in patient care.
Mercy is a founding member of Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a first-of-its-kind global health data network that links healthcare innovators and provides access to clean, curated and de-identified data sets-enabling richer insights, faster decisions and more equitable patient care.
Through Connect, Mayo Clinic is also collaborating with other leading healthcare organizations worldwide. Access to additional de-identified patient data from these healthcare organizations is expected to become available through Mayo Clinic Platform later this year.
