Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has launched a digital pathology platform to improve diagnostic speed and accuracy.
Three things to know:
1. Mayo Clinic has digitized its extensive archive of pathology slides and continues to scan slides from current patients. The digital platform now includes 20 million slide images linked to 10 million patient records, incorporating information on treatments, medications, imaging, genomic data and more.
2. The Mayo Clinic Digital Pathology program will use this digitized data to provide care teams with greater access to diagnostic information and tools compared to traditional analog practices.
3. Mayo is using these large, diverse datasets to develop artificial intelligence models in pathology. This effort is supported by a partnership with NVIDIA, and Mayo has also partnered with Aignostics to build AI tools that can analyze digital pathology slides.
"Mayo Clinic is reimagining what is possible in disease detection and prediction, both within its own system and globally," Jim Rogers, CEO of Mayo Clinic Digital Pathology, said in a Jan. 13 news release. "This will make diagnoses faster, more accurate, and more efficient, improving treatment approaches and speeding new cures to patients."
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