Healthcare Finance News May 20, 2024
Each organization can now securely analyze de-identified patient data from either health system.
Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and St. Louis-based Mercy have formed a partnership in which the two organizations will de-identify patient data as they search for new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent disease.
They’ll do so through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network that provides secure access to de-identified clinical data. Previously, Mercy and Mayo Clinic could use Connect to analyze data from their own organizations, but as of this week, each organization can safely and securely analyze de-identified patient data from either health system.
This significantly larger data set allows researchers and innovators to better identify risk factors, predict illnesses and provide earlier treatment, the organizations...