UnityPoint Health has joined a new Mayo Clinic program that will give its clinicians access to clinical resources and research aimed at improving patient care.
The West Des Moines-based health system is the first organization to participate in Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, a collaboration announced Wednesday, Nov. 19. The program provides participating healthcare organizations with access to Mayo Clinic clinical research, best practices and data-driven insights enabled by artificial intelligence.
“We look forward to collaborating with Mayo Clinic to enhance the expert care and exceptional experience we offer close to home,” UnityPoint Health President and CEO Scott Kizer said. “This is an exciting time to be able to use technology to put clinical and operational expertise at the fingertips of our clinicians and care teams to help us elevate the quality of the expert care we provide throughout all of our urban and rural communities.”
The program offers point-of-care decision-support tools, patient and provider education, and digital transformation guidance, according to the announcement.
“We are pleased to have UnityPoint Health join us as the first organization in Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, a program that delivers Mayo Clinic’s rich clinical and operational expertise to other healthcare organizations so they can benefit from the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence,” said Dr. John Halamka, the Dwight and Dian Diercks President of Mayo Clinic Platform. “With access to proven clinical and administrative solutions, providers will have more time to focus on what matters most: their patients.”
Mayo Clinic Platform is a strategic initiative of Mayo Clinic that works with health care organizations on data-driven innovation.
UnityPoint Health operates more than 400 physician clinics, 18 regional hospitals and 17 community network hospitals across the Midwest, including St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. The organization employs more than 31,000 people.
