Mayo Clinic plans to develop and deploy a frontier AI model specifically designed for healthcare in collaboration with Microsoft.
The strategic collaboration combines Mayo Clinic’s global healthcare expertise, de-identified clinical health data and longitudinal insights with Microsoft’s advanced AI, cloud engineering and tech capabilities, the companies announced Tuesday.
The two organizations say they are developing a frontier AI model "capable of supporting the broadest scope of clinical reasoning and healthcare use cases," according to a press release.
The frontier AI model is designed to synthesize diverse clinical data to support earlier diagnoses, more personalized treatment decisions and better patient outcomes. The AI collaboration will make Mayo Clinic’s medical expertise and integrated model of care available to more people when and where they need it, the two organizations said.
Mayo Clinic will own the frontier AI model, consistent with what Mayo says is the organization's "long-standing commitment to patient trust, clinical rigor, safety and responsible stewardship of clinical data and AI."
Microsoft plans to make the model available through Azure Foundry APIs, providing other organizations access to advanced healthcare AI capabilities.
“Mayo Clinic is committed to putting patients first, and 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,” Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, said in a statement. “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.”
The model is being purpose-built for healthcare and initially deployed within Mayo Clinic’s clinical environment. The health system plans to continuously test, refine and improve the model through real-world use, according to the press release.
"Frontier medical intelligence is around the corner. This is the best collaboration imaginable to help us accelerate towards that future. Mayo has unparalleled clinical expertise, de-identified clinical health data and longitudinal medical insights, and we're thrilled to partner with their world class physicians to build a state-of-the-art foundation model for healthcare," Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said in a statement.