Understanding Mayo Clinic Platform: A Strategic Overview for Health IT Leaders

Mayo Clinic Platform is an initiative designed to accelerate and enable digital transformation in healthcare for Mayo Clinic and healthcare providers around the world. By leveraging data and clinical expertise from Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Platform aims to empower health IT leaders, clinicians, and technology developers to create and deploy AI-driven solutions that enhance patient care and operational efficiency. This overview explores how Solutions Studio, one of Mayo Clinic Platform’s core programs supports the advancement and integration of digital health solutions. ​

What Is Mayo Clinic Platform?

Mayo Clinic Platform facilitates the development, validation, and deployment of digital health solutions through a number of unique capabilities. It serves as a bridge between healthcare providers, technology developers, and researchers, enabling collaboration to address complex healthcare challenges. Platform offers access to high-quality, longitudinal, de-identified clinical data, advanced AI tools, and a network of healthcare institutions committed to innovation. 

Core to the platform is Solutions Studio, a program designed to accelerate digital health applications from development to deployment.  The program leverages three main capabilities: discovery, validation, and deployment.  These capabilities help innovators train, test, and deploy their solutions to improve both administrative and clinical processes.

Core Capabilities of Mayo Clinic Platform_Solutions Studio

At the core of Mayo Clinic Platform is its distributed data network.  It’s clear that AI solutions are only as good as the data that powers them.  The breadth and depth of this de-identified data provides a solid foundation for validating and powering the AI solutions involved in the platform.  Plus, Mayo Clinic Platform provides programs for startups and digital health companies across all stages of development.  That includes Accelerate for early stage companies and Solutions Studio for later stage companies.

Check out the overview of what’s available as part of Mayo Clinic Platform Solutions Studio.

1. Mayo Clinic Platform_Discover

Mayo Clinic Platform_Discover provides access to a vast repository of de-identified clinical data, encompassing over 13.6 million patients, 5.8+ billion images (CT, MRI, PET), and 2.72+ billion lab test results to name a few.  Check out the list of de-identified data included in Mayo Clinic Platform.

As you can see, this data includes structured information such as demographics, diagnoses, and medications, as well as unstructured data like clinical notes, imaging reports, and pathology findings. Platform’s environment allows users to analyze this information to uncover clinical insights, validate them, and train AI models. Access to this data can quickly accelerate digital health companies’ innovation efforts.  

2. Mayo Clinic Platform_Validate

Mayo Clinic Platfrom_Validate independently assesses the accuracy and effectiveness of artificial intelligence models and digital health solutions used in healthcare. It analyzes how these solutions perform across different patient demographics using a vast dataset of de-identified clinical records that come from urban and rural communities. The goal is to identify potential biases and limitations before these technologies are integrated into clinical practice. By offering third-party evaluations, Platform provides transparency and builds trust in medical AI tools among healthcare providers.

Check out an example report from Mayo Clinic Platform_Validate.

3. Mayo Clinic Platform_Deploy

Mayo Clinic Platform_Deploy streamlines the integration of AI solutions into clinical workflows. It provides a technical and operational framework that facilitates rapid deployment, allowing innovators to bring their solutions to market quickly. Deploy connects developers with a network of healthcare organizations eager to adopt novel AI solutions, thereby accelerating the transition from model development to real-world application.

All the clinical research and validation of AI models is useless if those insights do not make it into the hands of clinicians.  Deploy provides the operational and technical framework along with a dedicated team of experts to allow healthcare organizations to more easily adopt novel AI solutions.

Strategic Benefits for Health IT Leaders

As we shared, in our previous look at platforms in healthcare [Will link to platform article], there are a lot of benefits to choosing a platform approach to innovation in healthcare.  Along with the operational and security aspects of platforms, there are a number of strategic benefits that solution developers receive from working with a well designed platform like Mayo Clinic Platform.

Accelerated Innovation – By providing access to extensive clinical data and advanced AI tools, Mayo Clinic Platform enables developers to rapidly prototype and test digital health solutions. This acceleration reduces the time and cost associated with bringing new technologies to market.​

Rigorous Validation – Platform’s qualification process ensures that digital health solutions meet high standards for performance, credibility, and fairness. This rigorous evaluation builds trust among healthcare providers and patients, facilitating the adoption of new technologies.​

Seamless Integration – Mayo Clinic Platform_Deploy simplifies the process of integrating AI solutions into existing clinical workflows. By addressing technical complexities and interoperability challenges, Deploy enables smoother transitions from development to implementation.​

Collaborative Ecosystem – The platform fosters collaboration between healthcare providers, technology developers, and researchers. This ecosystem approach promotes the sharing of knowledge and resources, leading to more effective and innovative healthcare solutions.​

Conclusion

Mayo Clinic Platform is a collaborative effort built on robust data and industry insight to enable digital innovation at scale. By offering access to high quality clinical data, advanced AI tools, and a supportive infrastructure for solution development and deployment, Platform empowers health IT leaders to drive meaningful change in patient care. For innovators and organizations seeking to collaborate with a trusted partner in healthcare innovation, Mayo Clinic Platform provides a powerful and reliable foundation.

For more information on how to engage with Mayo Clinic Platform, visit www.mayoclinicplatform.org.

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