Microsoft and the nonprofit American academic medical centre Mayo Clinic are developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) model designed specifically for healthcare, in a move aimed at supporting patients, clinicians and consumers, according to an announcement.
The organisations said the model will combine Mayo Clinic’s medical knowledge, anonymised health data and experience in patient care with Microsoft’s AI, cloud and engineering capabilities.
The model will be used to analyse different types of clinical information and help support tasks such as earlier diagnosis and more personalised treatment planning.
“We have long believed AI can help transform healthcare. Seven years ago, we launched Mayo Clinic Platform to move healthcare from a pipeline to a platform model through a safe, trusted, patient-centric de-identified data foundation designed to accelerate innovation, breakthroughs, and cures,” said Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., the president and CEO of Mayo Clinic.
“Now, by combining our clinical expertise and data foundation with Microsoft’s engineering and AI capabilities, we are once again building something new in healthcare and bringing more of Mayo Clinic to more patients”.
