The Mayo Clinic and Mercy, early adopters of large health systems and electronic health records, are collaborating on whether using data and patient outcomes from the two institutions could lead to earlier identification of disease and treatment.
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Mayo and Mercy each have extensive treatment outcomes and clinical data using integrated electronic health records for many years. Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo has about 10 million patient lives in its database and about 60 in cardiology, neurology, radiology, oncology and radiology, according to John Halamka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform. an algorithm. Meanwhile, St. Louis-based Mercy has developed a range of algorithms and has 15 million patients.
“But they’re all different patients,” Haramka said. “So by collaborating, you’ll benefit from more patients with more diverse medical data, and the strengths of two organizations and different algorithms that we’ll be spreading to the world together.”
Data is de-identified, which means they cannot be traced back to the original data source. This allows Mayo and Mercy to check the results without transferring data between the two organizations. Each entity can control its own de-identified data.
With this information, scientists and doctors can examine patterns in a particular population and determine the disease and best treatment plan for that population. The benefit of the collaboration is that the two organizations now have more diverse data from a wider population and geographic location, which will reduce bias and make comparisons of treatment plans more accurate, Haramka said.
“Imagine we develop an amazing algorithm for the population of Minnesota, and you run it in Oklahoma. Will it work? Will it be fair? Useful? Biased?” Haramka said. “If you look at the history of Minnesota — the Scandinavians — and you look at the history of Oklahoma — not the Scandinavians — it’s quite possible that the algorithm Sending from one crowd to another might not actually be a good idea. That’s the joy of working with Mercy. Compassion can test us, and we can test them.”
The platform also makes it easier for doctors to spot rare diseases without relying solely on their past training and experience, John Mohart, president of Mercy Communities, said at the conference. He shared a story about a 13-year-old boy in his community who died a few years ago from a rare syndrome that was not immediately recognized and could easily lead to a ruptured heart. Mohart’s wife, an emergency room doctor who was working on the boy’s case, later told Mohart that Mohart recognized the syndrome because of his previous training.
“But most people don’t [recognize it],” Morhart said. “It’s not because I’m too good, it’s just because I’ve had that kind of experience, that kind of history. We now want to apply it to everyone…so that every pattern in every child can be identified before this happens. “
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