Over the past decade or so, Mayo Clinic has made healthcare digital innovation a priority. In its latest effort, the health system has partnered with Microsoft to build an innovative AI model specific to healthcare. 

The new AI model, developed through the auspices of the Mayo Clinic Platform initiative, will be used to develop a “frontier” model with clinical reasoning and healthcare use case abilities. Clinical data from Mayo which has been de-identified will be combined with Microsoft’s cloud, engineering, and AI resources to build the model. It is expected that the model will enable faster, more accurate clinical diagnoses and care planning and treatment.

While the AI model will be owned by Mayo Clinic, Microsoft will offer it to other organizations via its Azure Foundry AI platform. It is not known when the model will be released.